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Zombies: A TVCU Quickie

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What's a quickie?   See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the Vodou religion,  zombie  ( Haitian Creole :  zonbi ) is an  animated corpse  raised by magical means, such as  witchcraft . [1] Zombies  are fictional  undead  creatures regularly encountered in  horror  and  fantasy  themed works. They are typically depicted as mindless, reanimated corpses with a  hunger for human flesh , and particularly for  human brains  in some depictions. Although they share their name and some superficial similarities with the  zombie  from Haitian  Vodun , their links to such folklore are unclear. Many consider  George A. Romero 's seminal film  Night of the Living Dead  to be the progenitor of these creatures. [1] [2]  Zombies have a complex literary heritage, with antecedents ranging from  Richard Matheson  and  H. P. Lovecraft  to...

Spider-Man: A TVCU Quickie

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What's a quickie?   See this blog. Spider-Man, Spider-Man, can do anything a spider can?  Get his own blog, sure he can, because he's like, a spider, man.  Look out!  Here comes the Spider-Man. This is the first of the quickies not covering a previous blog topic.  And this is a top I said I would never cover, because Spider-Man didn't have very much of an on-screen TVCU presence, even if he does indeed exist in the TVCU.  But with the introduction of the quickies, I can cover subjects like this more easily. The primary version of Spider-Man in the TVCU is the version from the Electric Company.  Yes, sorry, folks, but its true. The Electric Company Spider-Man has interacted with other Electric Company characters, and Electric Company has crossed with Sesame Street which has crossed with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.  And once you get to Detective Munch, no further linking explanations are needed. Besides the Electric Company, some...