A newly-awoken zombie is like a big puppy. Full of energy, always hungry and looking to chew on things, while also being surrounded by many things on which to chew.
The Adventures of Sue and Kathryn
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A newly-awoken zombie is like a big puppy. Full of energy, always hungry and looking to chew on things, while also being surrounded by many things on which to chew.
Good for new zombies, then, that human skulls are fairly fragile. XD
Do new zombies have some kind of temporary amnesty when they first turn? Seems like it would be incredibly awkward to go on to be an upstanding member of the community if you started with a brain eating spree.
It occurs to me that a Worldsetting or History tab for those curious about backstory may be a good thing to add to the site. Mostly because I’m not sure how much of such detail will work crammed into the strip itself.
Basically, at the time the laws in question were passed, currently active zombies were granted amnesty for their past consumptions and citizen-status with the understanding that further consumption of humans was not permissible. That’s why Sue and Kathryn can legally own property.
Most zombies become cognizant and rational so long as their hunger remains sated, and many of them moved to new areas to start new lives. Very few remained in places where they’d formerly hunted and fed, for the reasons you described.
Industrious business-minded people with sufficiently flexible ethics eventually began running clone-shops to sell cloned human flesh and organs for zombie (and misc other) consumption. That’s the real place Sue got her basket of organs in the first story arc, and why she can walk around with it in broad daylight. Although most humans get seriously creeped out by it, consuming and transporting cloned human flesh and organs is legal so long as (1) the shop selling it acquires the genetic source material from willing and informed volunteers and (2) no brains are grown at any point in the process.
Basically, to eat human flesh within the confines of the law, Sue consumes the flesh of mindless husks that never knew sentience. Same reason spirits such as Kathryn siphon emotions from created products instead of living things, lest they face criminal charges. Laws like this were drafted as a form of compromise to avoid an apocalypse-style all-out war between living and undead.
So there weren’t laws against that to begin with? Or do zombies have their own laws and do not abide to ours, the mortals’ ones?
Zombie-specific laws and amendments to existing laws were drafted as a compromise to avoid apocalyptic warfare. See my reply to Tarnagh above for more info.
Probably a law that if you create a zombie, your brain, and all brains of those who were directly under you, are forfeit. :p
Come on, Kathryn, Sue is a mad scientist! Can’t the two of you put your heads together and come up with something?
(It doesn’t count as Deus Ex Sue if it doesn’t happen in the blink of an eye, so that makes it okay, right?)
Kathryn is the mad scientist. Sue is the mad cook. :p