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Popverse Picks: My favorite zombie things in honor of The Last of Us season 2 debut, including a Christmas musical, an Image Comics adaptation, and more

The Last of Us season 2 is clicking its way onto Max pretty soon; here's how to enjoy the genre even if you don't do shrooms

Features by Grant DeArmitt, Staff Writer

Published on Mon Mar 31 2025

Ghouls in red dresses with hanging intestines

Chainsaws that hack off necrotic infections

Flesh that's decaying but still somehow clings

These are a few of my favorite things!

The above is what I thought of when my editors asked me to come up with "a list of my favorite zombie things" ahead of The Last of Us season 2. Is it comprehensive? Absolutely not, but how could one expect my answer to be? The zombie genre is as diverse and widespread as any undead plague therein, and I, your humble horror hound, have not the time or determination to pluck

But the best I can do, as any shambling skeleton bobbing for brains has taught me, is try. And so, I leave to you, dearly departed, some of my favorite ooey, gooey, likely to spewy

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Grant DeArmitt: Grant DeArmitt (he/him) likes horror, comics, and the unholy union of the two. As Popverse's Staff Writer, he criss-crosses the pop culture landscape bringing you the news and opinions about the big things (and the next big things). In the past, and despite their better judgment, he has written for Nightmare on Film Street and Newsarama. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kingsley, and corgi, Legs.