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This live comic book anthology contains three irreverent comedies that hilariously skewer well-beloved genres. Hard-boiled paranormal detective Jake Misco takes on the case of a mysterious stranger who is haunted by her dead husband; a Cold War-era crime-fighting duo struggles to save America from the throes of Communism while questioning their own principles; and a teenage warrior princess named Tina must fight evil Zombie cheerleaders and the tedium of French class.

This segment of Sunday Morning is a look at the fictional character of zombies.

In Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, when hunchbacked Igor invites Frankenstein to “walk this way,” and the latter obliges with an awkward stooping imitation, the movie signals the dependence of Frankenstein movies on simulations of impaired or non-normative motion. This paper reads the atypical walk of screen Frankenstein monsters as both a stereotyped disability simulation that appeals to nondisabled viewers and a mode through which disabled people have expressed experiences of medicalization, pathologization, and ableist oppression. The paper traces the spread of the monster-walk into popular song and dance and on into contemporary zombie performances, including those of disabled protestors who both channel and resist the living-dead status thrust on them by health and economic deprivations. The Frankenstein walk, reborn as the zombie protest, thus emerges from ableist scripts for disenfranchised bodies but is reinvented as an invitation to variant embodiment in public and political spaces.

Sterlin Harjo’s second feature film, Barking Water (2009), like Four Sheets to the Wind, is very situated and centered in Oklahoma. The earlier film is set and filmed in Holdenville and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and as one reviewer points out “almost the entire cast and many of the crew members are American Indians” (John Anderson). Barking Water too is set and filmed entirely on location in Oklahoma, and it is in every way local. From the opening shot of an Oklahoma river onward, the film is replete with shots of rural Oklahoma. The actors too are from the land. Richard Ray