![]() ![]() ![]() Zombies are everywhere in twenty-first century popular culture, appearing in comic books, videogames, theatre, film, television, fitness aps, as well as on the streets in emergency training boot camps, paintball survival and zombie chase games, and cosplay at fan conventions and zombie walks. Zombies are, of course, everywhere in popular culture, appearing not only in comic books, videogames, film, and television, but also in theatre, fitness aps, on the streets in emergency training boot camps, paintball survival and zombie chase games, and cosplay at fan conventions and zombie walks. This article will examine the series, positioning it within a history of the zombie in film and television, while considering how its own unique approach is taking the genre in new directions and offering new ways of understanding our evolving relationship with the undead. One of the most recent additions to a growing body of zombie texts is the television show iZombie (CW 2015-). ![]() With each new incarnation, they undergo a transformation, sometimes subtle and sometimes drastic, but these changes impact upon how we engage with and understand the zombie. Zombies have never been more popular than in twenty-first century media as they spread virally from cinema and computer games to graphic novels and television. ![]()
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