Australian singer/songwriter Delta Goodrem comes face-to-face for the first time with a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds in Sydney on April 11, 2012. Madame Tussauds, featuring wax doppelgangers of Dannii Minogue, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp and Lady Gaga, was officially open on April 16. (Photo by Ryan Pierse)

The name Danbo is a pun on the Japanese word for corrugated cardboard “danboru” (ダンボー). There’s also a company in Japan which makes cardboard boxes which has Danbooru in its name.

“Filthy Luker is a painter who is really attacking his audience. Who could think that a green octopus suddenly starts to creep out from the windows, a huge banana rind lounges just in the center of a road and the trees start to see!” (Photo by Filthy Luker/Vedi tutte le foto via Giornalettismo.com)

Actor Rarmian Newton who plays the character Hiccup rides Toothless during a scene run through of the “How to Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular” at Hisense Arena on March 7, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)

Ultra Orthodox Jews celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim on March 8, 2012 in Benei Brak, Israel. The carnival-like Purim holiday is celebrated with parades and costume parties to commemorate the deliverance of the Jewish people from a plot to exterminate them in the ancient Persian empire 2,500 years ago, as described in the Book of Esther. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

“Michael Mathias Prechtl (April 26, 1926, Amberg – March 19, 2003, Nuremberg) was a German artist, illustrator and cartoonist. He served as a soldier on the Eastern Front during World War II and spent 1945-49 as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union”. – Wikipedia

Photo: “Der Gestiefelte Kater (Puss in Boots)”, 1997. Artwork by Michael Mathias Prechtl

On August 18, 2012 the infection spreads again as the undead hordes shamble through Vancouver in search of brains. The annual Zombie Walk has been going on for years and each year gets bigger and bigger. (Photo by Gord Gallagher)