THE DEAD TIMES

DESCRIPTION:

Rochelle Glass is a Zombie from George A. Romero's and Daniel Kraus' wonderful Zombie book, The Living Dead (that's why I don't have an accurate picture). Unusually for memorable Zombies, Glass actually has a background - starting the novel alive and only later becoming undead. She is (or was) a news reporter and chat show host for news company, WWN. She is your typical 'high and mighty' type who thinks she is better than other news readers like her colleagues Chuck "The Face" Corso and Nathan Baseman. Glass saw the early stages of the Zombie apocalypse as simple gangland warfare mixed with racial prejudice; a bunch of black 'gangsters' performing a savage drive-by on a seemingly run-of-the-mill white family. She was going to report it as such, getting talking heads and gangland 'experts' on the show to really pedal that nonsense to the public - feed people enough of what could be true and they'll believe it, blissfully ignoring any inconsistencies. And besides, audiences love a bit of bloodshed with a known perpetrator that can be prosecuted but is, as yet, still out there, providing them with just enough underlying threat to think they have learnt a vitally important life-lesson from other people's misfortune - justifying there right to do absolutely nothing in the face of terror. When Baseman killed Glass in order to force out the truth, Glass came back as a Zombie - the first celebrity Zombie. People saw her on their TV screens. They saw her bringing life, bringing happiness (but also sadness) to many, bringing the information people needed to know, providing a vital service to humanity. All that disappeared when she became a Zombie; transferred from the higher-echelons of civility to the slag-heap of ignorance in a just few short hours. Her celebrity status means nothing in her new and current form, her assumed superior social standing erased; the undead have no celebrities, no individuals, no Is, only yous.