It’s a match-up centuries in the making, one that can turn brother against brother, mother against son, and babysitter against baby. The question is, of course, which mythological creature is cooler: The zombie or the unicorn? Zombies have been experiencing a resurgence in popularity lately, a revivification, if you will, from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to Zombieland to the raised-from-the-dead career and mangled face of Mickey Rourke. (“He came back…different.”) Not to be outdone, those rainbow-pooping, ark-missing unicorns have always enjoyed a consistently strong popularity among the puffy-sticker-on-a-Lisa-Frank-folder set, as well as a brief period in the 80’s when movies like The Last Unicorn and Legend helped bring them back into the mainstream.
Well, the age-old question will finally be answered in a new book, Zombies vs. Unicorns, just announced by Simon & Schuster, which will be a collection of essays detailing the pros and cons of both the shambling undead and the horned horses. The idea for the book came from a series of blog posts between authors Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Ironside) and Justine Larbalestier (Liar, How to Ditch Your Fairy) that started in 2007 and grew from there. A number of big names from the young-adult circuit, including The Princess Diaries writer Meg Cabot, have contributed individual pieces on one of the two creatures, all of which are tied together by a running deliberative commentary from Black and Larbalestier as they argue for Team Unicorn and Team Zombie respectively. “What’s great about what the contributors are doing is that it isn’t anything typical,” says publisher Justin Chanda. “There’s definitely the standard eating-your-brains zombie, but there’s also some heartfelt zombies and funny zombies. And on the unicorn side there’s some really dark stuff going on, too.”
Anticipating a September launch for the book, Simon & Schuster has set up a website allowing people to vote and make it known where they stand in this debate. I just wonder why we can’t just compromise and agree that clearly a zombie unicorn would be coolest beast never to roam the earth. What do you guys think? Are you on Team Unicorn or Team Zombie?
Definitely team zombie. Unicorns killed Tonks!
wtf are you smoking? Bellatrix did
YEAH!
Nerdfighters ftw!
YES! And don’t forget this debate has already been settled because we have the zombiecorn!
i like unicorns because they are happy and if you drink their blood it can save you from death, but you will live a cursed life! (and they r mentioned in Harry Potter) but all around they are more sunshines and happiness than the dark, undead zombies! i mean who would pick an undead guy who has limbs that fall off over a happy creature wwho makes everybody happy?? (lol overuse of the word happy but howelse do u describe unicorns?)
Who doesn’t love a good unicorn?
All girls love unicorns.
Or at least this is what Veronica Mars taught me.
I prefer evil unicorns…you should check out Rampant by Diana Peterfreund.
Oooh! YES!!! RAMPANT is fabulous. Killer unicorns rule!
Team Unicorn 100%. When I was a kid, my room closely resembled Christine Taylor’s house in the movie Dodgeball.
I probably wouldn’t have cared otherwise except I like both these authors and I very recently had a ninjas vs. pirates, monkeys vs. robots discussion with the cashier during my last bookstore visit (was waiting for the manager) , but Zombies definitely.
After trying to fight my way through P&P&Zombies I would have to say Unicorns. Anything but that torture again!
Well, I don’t know how to rekill the undead, but maybe the horn is the answer! At least they can kill vampires. Go unicorns!
Zombie-unicorns all the way.
Zombies are frighteningly underrepresented in these comments. Zombies are clearly the best choice, because (as someone already pointed out) UNICORNS KILLED TONKS. Zombies ftw.
Team unicorn for sure….can’t do zombies, even the “heartfelt funny” ones. Nooo thank u!
Lisa Frank!
(But still, Team Zombie.)
Would zombie unicorns eat other unicorns brains? Seems they might starve pretty quickly given the limited numbers of unicorns out there.
no– zombie unicorns only feed on virgins.
Technically, I believ the true battle would be between zombies and vampires, for both eat humans, and unicorns versus narwhals, both have strange uni-horns. Otherwise, I am Team Zombie.