I had the thought to look at parasitic fungi because of a group tutorial in which Ceri asked me questions about the origin of my zombie virus and how the apocalypse started in my story. I didn't think it would matter that much to my comic, but I decided to think about it anyway.
I've watched a LOT of zombie media and know just about anyway that a zombie apocalypse has started, and although I haven't watched the show (or game) 'The Last of Us', I have heard tales of the Clicker Zombies that started due to a fungi. I thought it would be interesting to mix fungi/nature with zombies so that they would have a unique look (and I could also make my zombie extra disgusting).
I thought back to something I'd see on TV about ants/insects that would be taken over by fungi and die, but I never looked further into it because it was freaky and scared me a bit. So, I decided to watch some documentaries on Youtube about Zombie Ant Fungi (which is a sick name), and some other crazy parasitic things in nature.
The story of the zombie ant fungi was a HUGE inspiration because the behaviours and changes the ant went through gave me ideas for my story. For example, when the ant is 'infected' with the cordyceps(fungi) it forced the ant to go up to a high place so that it can find the most optimum conditions for the fungi to grow, and so that the spores of the fungi can spread further. This is called summiting. And that is the name I chose for my comic, because I wanted to have this aspect of the zombies climbing to a high place and at same time, and maybe the main character can follow and that would be her being othered.
The Sting of Doom | MindsuckersYouTube · National Geographic48.3k+ views · 11 years ago
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