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I mean, the Zombies in WWZ basically run on magic shields to be a threat. They're utterly invulnerable to anything Max Brooks doesn't want them to be killed by.
Like, if I remember correctly, they're immune to shrapnel and bleeding wounds because "the dead don't need blood", and nerve toxins or shockwaves don't harm them because "the dead don't have a nervous system". But somehow removing the head is a 100% infallible method of killing them. What is in the head if not blood and nerves, Max?
These are creatures which casually violate the second law of thermodynamics. If they're playing by real-world physics, chemistry, and biology, they're radically less dangerous.
His prior book The Zombie Survival Guide goes into a lot of detail about the how and why of Zombie biology and durability
I'm aware of it. It suffers from the same issues as WWZ. Max Brooks makes a lot of assertions, some of which are factually wrong (about topics other than zombies, I mean), some of which require the zombies to share the same oddly specific immunities to be true, and some of which is even self-contradictory. (Offhand, the bit that sticks in my mind is he completely contradicts himself about whether zombies can even climb things.)
lol basically everything shield