You know it's a zombie when it tries to eat you....

Someone asked me today: Well, What do you mean zombies are everywhere?  So I figured I would spend a little while addressing some of the best places you can find (and fight!) the flesh eating hordes.  There are many different media sources where you can find zombies whether they be movies like “Zombieland” and “Dawn of the dead” or video games like “Left 4 Dead” or “Resident Evil.”  There are books (“Zombie Survival Guide”, “World War Z”, and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), comics (“The Walking Dead”, “Blackest Night”), and even TV shows (“The Walking Dead”) (Also, don’t forget real world events, i.e. Fort Collin’s annual Zombiefest.) all of which explore the phenomenon to some degree.  I found an article among the e-resources section of my local library, an article by author Daniel Drezner called “How I learned to stop worrying and love zombies.”  In it Drezner explains how he came to write his book: Theories of International Politics and Zombies. In it he explains how he came to understand that his average grad student understood more about zombies then many serious academic subjects.  Another source I found today was an article by James Parker from Atlantic Monthly called “Our Zombies, Ourselves, Why we can’t get the undead off our brains.”  In which the author theorizes that their popularity has to do with the prevalence of zombies in the media and with their anonymity.  A Zombie is noticeable but can be anyone.  I think it may be more of a case of the chicken or the egg.  Did zombie become popular because they’re everywhere or are they everywhere because they are popular?