Tag: nostalgia

I stumbled upon an interesting little factoid from [a webcomic](http://www.menagea3.net/d/20081213.html) today.

It’s generally assumed that the modern Zombie apocalypse trope (disease/radiation/whatever turns people into brain-munching monsters, spreading the infection with each brain that gets munched) was started by George A. Romero’s [Night of the Living Dead](http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead). Not so!

> Yeah, les Schtroumpfs! The Smurfs! In the first book, [Les Schtroumpfs Noir](http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Schtroumpfs_noirs), a Smurf is infected by a disease that turns him black, non-verbal and agressive. He’s then compelled to spread it through biting.
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>The story ends with a small band of survivors forced to do battle with a wave of infected descending upon them.
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> AKA: the modern zombie apocalypse scenario, and one that predates Romero’s by a good nine years!

(from [Ménage à 3, December 13, 2008](http://www.menagea3.net/d/20081213.html)).

Gnap!