Sears Wishes You A “HABBEH HARRAHAAN” With Their Zombie Site

Remember at the end of Shaun of the Dead, where zombies have been integrated into human life as menial workers?

A charmingly creative alternative look at the tail end of a zombie outbreak.  But you’ll never guess who’s picked up on a version of that idea and is using it as an actually well produced Halloween tie in.

Sears.

That’s right.  Go to sears.com/zombies and get ready to be somewhat bemused.  There’s a feed of their undead Twitter puppet, three reasonably amusing videos of zombies interacting with Sears merchandise, a zombie gift recommender (just takes you to actual Sears product pages), and a zombie creator (frankly, it’s no Scott Pilgrimizer, though).

Probably the best part of the page is the “Switch to Zombian” button, which translates all the text into a language speakable by creatures who’ve mostly chewed their own tongues off.

I can think of one perfect juggernaut brand that’s just looking for a garden supply store to tie in to…

(via Geeks Are Sexy.)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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