Why are Jellies more interested in zombies than in werewolves?

Because they’re flippin’ Zombies. Though I am equally in love with both fandoms.

@asmonet – The difference in numbers of responses was truly amazing. It was like watching one small rock roll down a hill versus an entire mountain suddenly collapsing onto the nearest town. What makes zombies so attractive? It certainly isn’t their breath or their conversational ability.

Zombies are bigger in pop culture at the moment. Zombie stuff is all the hell over the place. If you want werewolf books/movies/etc., you have to really dig.

Werewolves are simply not in style now. Zombies are.

I prefer werewolves, I just thought the werewolf question was more difficult to answer.

@syz—Same here.

First it was pirates and ninjas. Zombies are trendy now.
Werewolves, vampires, vikings, whatever will all have a turn.

I am much more worried about an attack from monsters like Chupacabra, Yeti, Sasquatch, Mothman and Ogopogo, than zombies or werewolves.

I don’t find werewolves too interesting, and I’m not well versed on them. I know much more about zombies…so I answer what I know :)

As well, a werewolf situation is much easier to deal with than zombies. A silver bullet (extending to silver anything) or stake to the heart/head does the trick. But with zombies, they are already dead, so a stake to the heart may not dispatch one. As well, there is a larger variety of zombies (slow brainless ones, fast ones, infected ones, ones that can jump high), whereas I don’t see a similar variety with werewolves; thus discussion about zombie tactics is more varied and more numerous depending on the situation.

I hate the freakin’ zombies! They stole a SXSW award from the jellies!
Bastards!

Oh no! They won?

But zombie babies are so adorable!

Zombies are so HOT!!!!

I have no idea why. Please pass the bacon.

It’s all about beer wolfs.

@daloon Zombies can be hot, like this one.

@jonsblond. I’ll have two of those, please!

i feel like zombies are easier to understand. i mean, there’s hardly a person in the world who is not clear on the fact that zombies want brains (especially if they’re being chased by one). but werewolves are always more of an uncertain topic to me. if a werewolf was on your heels, what does he want? does he want to be pet? does he want to eat your limbs?

@tiffyandthewall he just wants a hug and some compassion.

Oh, one last thing. A werewolf is a human who transforms into a wolf at the sight of the full moon, and who transforms back afterward. So killing a werewolf means you’re ultimately killing a person. Zombies though are not people, well not anymore. They will not transform back to regular people. Maybe this plays into why we prefer zombies over werewolves.

Personally I don’t think werewolves will ever be in style to the level that zombies are. Werewolves are often more sympathetic creatures, such as Lupin in the Harry Potter books. Zombies, on the other hand, are a clear cut case of bad things. No zombie ever wants to do nice things to you, well except for the mutants in Fallout, but they’re not really zombies per se.

I will say that after you’ve had a few zombies you tend to feel pretty good. More than a few and you end up feeling pretty bad.

What is more fun; a creature that only dies if you manage to pop it with a silver bullet, or one with whose head you can play tee-ball, using a shovel for your bat?

Couldn’t there be a werewolf zombie? That would be a bitch to kill!

Silver shovel?

That might work, unless he’s a vampire werewolf zombie. Then we’re all screwed.

I think it’s because zombies eat brains which means they have a discriminating palate as opposed to werewolves who just rip people limb from limb, eat everything, and make a big mess. That’s not very appealing in a monster.

Because a zombie apocalypse COULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN. No, I’m not crazy, look it up. Warewolves are pure fiction, while zombies have a basis in reality. Of course the chances of a zombie apocalypse is very unlikely, it’s still possible.

O-kay.

<<slowly backing away from fortris>>

I want some of whatever @fortris is smoking. Puff, puff, pass, baby. =)

Turn the shovel around and stake the bitch. :)

“They’re us. We’re them.”

Horror supplies a lot of food for thought when it comes to the imagination. Possible zombie scenarios, hypothetical questions regarding the subject and fantasies are much more varied and open ended than the werewolf thing. In most cases. Not stating it as a fact, but it seems to, generally, be the case.

I can hardly attempt to justify zombie passion though; they just kick ass.