The Zombie Gnome Defense Guide
Shaenon: Look at this! The Zombie Gnome Defense Guide, written by Andrew Farago and myself and illustrated by Brian Heemskerk, is out in stores! Please enjoy our harrowing chronicle of the Zombie Gnome invasion.
Channing: Eat your heart out, Max Brooks.
But, um, not literally. Please, Mr. Brooks, do not literally consume your own heart in some sort of twisted undead autophagy. The gnomes will do that for you
I’m not sure I got the setting interpreted right, is it normal gnomes exist in this world either alongside or secret from humans and now a zombie plague has broke out that only infects gnomes? Or is it a zombie plague that turns humans into gnomes or a single human into a dozen gnomes? And if you can dress them up in costumes you can capture them. Also is there groups of uninfected gnomes taking on the role of zombie apocalypse survivers? Or is all this just stuff that is never explained inuniverse because it’s a comedy? Also I think the cruel pranks thing might be them being controlled by a malevolent demon or something.
Overthinking a situation like that is what attracts Zombie Gnomes.
Don’t worry about it, just squish them.
I read it as a zombie plague that affects garden statuary, enabling Proper Gardening Purists to look really smug and say “See? We told you they were evil!” before getting et.
Shmebulock!
In the immortal words of Basil Fawlty, “I shall come over and insert a large garden gnome in you, good-day.” Imagine how painful it’d be if it were a zombie gnome.
(My Internet provider has been down for a couple of days. (Took the phones with it, too.) I’ve found a roundabout way of getting briefly online but won’t be able to do it much ’cause it’s not secure. So I’ll only be around briefly till it clears up.)
Did someone already address this, but why aren’t there words after the comic day/titles anymore? Has the story ended?
I’ve not seen any official comment as to why it’s happening, but Jeff’s been posting the comics every day since August 13th, so he’s been “commenting” in the URLs. To save you from going back and clicking through each day one at a time, here’s the story thus far (I have added capitalisation and punctuation):
Attention. Attention. Anyone who is following this story, you may safely disregard all this week. Yep, as I anticipated, you can safely remove these words from the transcript. Hey, I know! I can write my own story in the filenames. Once upon a time, no
Yeah…I was sick and then out of town, so Jeff’s been uploading the comics. The usual filename story is my thing.
Glad to have you back.
Regarding the book, is there a bonus for discovering the duplicate page?
I am going to have to share this with my co-workers, especially the ones who work very close to the certain mouse-and-princess-oriented theme park.
Zombie gnomes? “Who’d do such a thing?
Have to ask. As I’m thinking of the Christmas after next, but is there going to be a World War Gnome? As while this has gone on my Christmas List I’m also wondering is there going to be a World War Z parody?
There is something of a World War G quality to the book.