Synopsis/Details
Brad Spickle is one of a kind—blue jumpsuit, doomsday paranoia, and a zombie apocalypse obsession that most people laugh off until it’s too late. His best friend, Nick McGregor, a rockabilly tattoo artist and undercover comic book geek, keeps Brad on payroll as a janitor just to keep tabs on the oddball. Unlike Brad, Nick is effortlessly cool with the ladies and doesn’t buy into the undead uprising, at least not until it actually happens—right in the middle of a hypothetical conversation about weaponry, interrupted by a hot hipster chick requesting a bikini line tattoo. Chaos erupts, zombies start munching their way through the city, and Brad’s old survival manual suddenly becomes gospel. The guys hatch a plan: find the manual’s author and join his imaginary army of slayers—but first, they need to locate another copy of the book (bad news), rescue the hipster’s twin sister (debatable), and stay alive long enough to make it to Miami, where the author claims survivor HQ is located (hopefully not total BS). With no luck finding another copy, Brad’s dyslexic memory becomes their only map, and navigating a zombified city to save the twin sister puts the trio through hell—but hey, hot girls are always worth it. As they travel cross-country dodging walkers and swapping one set of twins for another, they wind up defending a renegade polygamist camp run by Utah militia madman Colonel Belafonte, whose “fortified compound” is mostly kids with sticks and a couple wives wielding kitchen knives. They make great time until a zombie onslaught traps them at Mount Rushmore, where they debate which president to blow up to start an avalanche. Brad gets bitten but doesn’t turn—turns out twins and lefties are immune. They finally reach Miami and discover the author is none other than Bruce Campbell himself, who confesses the survival manual was a total joke meant to cash in on his B-movie cred. Just when hope fades, Bruce hands them a stockpile of fan-made zombie slaying devices, and the trio unleashes hell—until a giant laser cuts Bruce in half and the unmistakable roar of steel announces the next apocalypse: demolition robots. From Brad’s bag comes How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and just like that, the sequel writes itself.
