Newspaper Zombie

The Newspaper Zombie is a low-health zombie reading an upside-down newspaper. When it loses it's newspaper, he gets angry. He appears to be an elderly person with glasses and heart-patterned boxers. When your plants destroy the newspaper, it pauses, a question mark appears above his head, then he quickly charges forward at your plants in a rage. Fume-shrooms and Gloom-shrooms damage both the zombie and the newspaper at the same time. It is first encountered in Adventure Mode level 2-1. His eyes will grow red after he loses his newspaper and he will run. He is the sixth Zombie to be encountered in Adventure Mode.

Suburban Almanac Entry
 Newspaper Zombie 

His newspaper provides limited defense.

Toughness: low

Newspaper Toughness: low

Speed: normal, then fast (after losing newspaper)

Newspaper Zombie was *this* close to finishing his sudoku puzzle. No wonder he's freaking out.

Overview
Absorbs 18 normal damage shots. Newspaper absorbs 8 normal damage shots. Appearance changes upon absorption of 5 normal damage shots and dies after 10 normal damage shots. Newspaper's appearance changes upon absorption of 3 and 6 normal damage shots and is destroyed after 8 normal damage shots.

Strategy
The newspaper is useless against the lobbed-shot plants, instants, the Fume-shroom, and the Gloom-shroom. In Wall-nut Bowling and Wall-nut Bowling 2, the zombie loses the newspaper after being hit by one Wall-nut, and dies after a second hit, like the Conehead Zombie. The Newspaper Zombie pauses and charges very quickly towards the end of the row after your plants destroy the newspaper, so you will need to be fast in order to kill it. The Snow Pea, Winter Melon, or Ice-shroom are effective for this, as they can slow its movement leaving plenty of time to kill it. If you are facing multiple Newspaper Zombies, Ice-shrooms and Peashooters can be used effectively to paralyze and kill them.

Trivia

 * The Newspaper Zombie was evidently sitting on the toilet and reading the paper when it became a zombie as suggested by his lack of pants.
 * When an enraged Newspaper Zombie bites a Garlic, it will, like some zombies, look and sound disgusted and move on to the next lane. However, its eyes turn back to white while it does this.
 * Maybe it's because the bad taste switches off its anger for a second.Zombie_paper_paper1.png
 * Newspaper Zombie and ladder Zombie are the only Zombies that don't use their hands to eat plants.
 * In the online version, the Newspaper Zombie's eyes may flash unconditionally for no apprarent reason.
 * Although a Newspaper Zombie can be damaged directly by Melon-pults, the splash of the Melon may also damage the Newspaper.
 * A hypnotized Newspaper Zombie's Newspaper won't protect him against other zombies, like other shields (except the Ladder Zombie).
 * Upon close inspection, you can tell that there is a zombie head printed below the 'ZOMBIE' text.
 * The Newspaper Zombie glasses are available in the Xbox Live Marketplace for 80 Microsoft Points.
 * The Newspaper Zombie is reading the newspaper upside-down.
 * Along with the Digger Zombie, the Newspaper Zombie is one of the two zombies that could have a question mark (?) over their head.
 * The angry Newspaper Zombie is the only zombie that has red eyes besides the Football Zombie, the Giga-Football Zombie, the Digger Zombie and the Giga-Gargantuar.
 * The Newspaper Zombie is one of the five zombies that has eyewear, the others being the new Dancing Zombie, the Snorkel Zombie, the Zombie Bobsled Team, and the Pogo Zombie.
 * The Newspaper Zombie and the Pogo Zombie have similar eyeglasses.
 * It is unknown how the zombies are able to wear eyeglasses, as they do not have noses or ears to rest them on. (other than Snorkel Zombies and Zombie Bobsled Teams' glasses which have straps to hold them up)
 * This is the only zombie that goes from slow to fast instead of fast to slow unlike other zombies such as the Pole Vaulting Zombie.
 * The Newspaper Zombie wields the weakest shield.
 * If the Newspaper Zombie bites a Garlic and loses his newspaper right after, he will bite the Garlic for the second time before switching lanes.
 * In Wall-nut Bowling 2, the Newspaper Zombie has as much health as a Conehead Zombie, but it gets faster after being hit once.
 * If you look closely, you can see the hearts on the Newspaper Zombie's boxers.
 * In the official Plants vs Zombies website, in the Reviews tab, you will see a Newspaper Zombie holding a different newspaper.
 * The Almanac said that the zombie was finishing a sudoku puzzle, however, its newspaper is oriented upside-down.
 * The Newspaper Zombie's newspaper is the only shield which cannot be taken by the Magnet-shroom.
 * For some reason, the newspaper doesn't catch fire when hit by flaming pea.
 * A glitch may occur when you destroy the shield, the zombie won't move at all.
 * The Newspaper Zombie is the only zombie that has visible underwear.
 * When the game is paused, the Newspaper Zombie will appear above the "Resume Game" tab.
 * There is a glitch in the DS version where when the Newspaper Zombie loses his newspaper, he may walk in place up until one hit after losing his head.
 * It has similar eyeglasses to the Pogo Zombie.
 * The Newspaper Zombie makes a "GRRRRR!"sound when he loses his newspaper.
 * Unusually, the Newspaper Zombie isn't trying to finish his Sudoku puzzle.