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9 thoughts on “558 – Cotton Clad Calamity”

  1. Raznaak

    Yup, he’s a bastard XD

  2. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    Are those pajamas available in XXXL in the gift shop?

  3. Otaku

    It’s been a while, so let me ask: Did we get a reason for him to WANT Susie dead? Not to backseat, but if we didn’t, I’m worried were about to move into “Stupid Evil” territory. Now, stupid happens, don’t get me wrong. It’s not bad storytelling for that to be the case here.

    You’ve just done a good job NOT having that be a driving factor, so the “Kill off the stars of my successful reality TV show.” seems shortsighted, otherwise. Oh, I guess I could be mistaken about the in-story reality TV show’s success. Like, if the company behind them is losing money, or they think a change in management at the ranch would make the whole thing more popular/profitable, then I can see the above scenario happening as well.

    I REALLY think I’m just forgetting something important, but that I don’t have time to deep dive to remind me of, hence the comment. >_<

    1. Deoxy

      It certainly has been stretched out over quite a while, but there have definitely been hints from quite near the beginning that whoever is running the reality TV show definitely wants her dead.

      But I certainly don’t recall any reason why.

      1. Clint

        Yeah it’s fair to not remember since it’s been a hot minute (many, many minutes) but if you feel like a refresher the most relevant bits would be the beginning of Episode 8 and the end of Episode 15. We haven’t explicitly spelled out exactly what The Exec means by his “side hustle” or who was on the other end of that phone call, though.

        I’m hoping that when the whole thing is eventually available it will make sense, or at least enough sense to have hung this narrative on.

        1. Otaku

          Thanks for the replies, Deoxy and Clint. Yeah, I’d totally forgotten about those things. Good to know!

  4. Evervigilant

    Seems about time for the two people who aren’t there to make a surprise entrance as the ace Susie didn’t even know she had.

  5. Scarsdale

    There’s still 3-5 people on her side that might be planning something. This guy is a megalomaniac with a god complex, so letting him think he’s the sharpest tool in the shed sets him up for a fall. Everything depends on those cameras, and I suspect their little stop over by the charging coffins had something to do with her actual plan, not the one the a-hole thinks it is.

  6. lyra

    Really enjoyed the opening of Zombie Ranch. I like the combination of the western setting with the zombie concept, it gives the story a really distinctive atmosphere. I’m a freelance illustrator and animator, and I’d be interested in seeing how some of these scenes could translate into motion, especially as a short animated teaser or character scene.

    If you’re ever interested in something like that, you can reach me here:

    IG: eve_verse_
    Email: [contact.lilaclines@gmail.com](mailto:contact.lilaclines@gmail.com)
    Discord: Lyralilac_

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558 – Cotton Clad Calamity
Posted on August 26, 2026 by Dawn

What would you call this? Armchair assassination? Merk-from-home?

Well, Suzie ain't dead (or undead) quite yet, so we'll just have to see if his gloating is justifiable.

Cyberpunk 2020?

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Clint

A lot of folk are aware there’s a big video game release in the pipe for later this year produced by CD Projekt Red, the same people behind the acclaimed game adaptations of The Witcher. Mind you the very latest news is that Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed until September, but it’s still on track for 2020. This is important, if you pay any mind to the arbitrary numbers we assign to our Earth’s revolutions around its sun.

Why? Well, the property was originally a tabletop role-playing game released in 1988 and called Cyberpunk 2020, depicting a polluted, dystopian future world where multinational corporations ruled, the lines between the haves and have-nots were stark, and “cyberpunks” moved between the cracks of society, using their wits and gadgets to evade a pervasive, invasive information state seeking to catalog and control their every move.

Technically speaking, now that I’m refreshing my memories, the 1988 first edition was Cyberpunk 2013 and it’s the more well-known (well-known to old nerds, anyhow) 2nd edition published in 1990 that was Cyberpunk 2020. But I suppose the point is, when updating the property they couldn’t still call it Cyberpunk 2020 anymore because that future is now.

I mean I’m not even talking the multinational corporations and class warfare, we’re getting the first salvos of that technological gizmo arms race.

If you don’t have time or inclination to follow that link, I’ll just mention a couple of things. One, you can now buy “Reflectacles” for your eyewear, and that name and their description sound like something straight off an RPG sourcebook equipment list: “…made of a material that reflects the infrared light found in surveillance cameras…”

In other words, all that facial recognition software people are increasingly worried about?

 

Good luck with that…

Or how about a clothing line that makes apparel printed with fake or out-of-use license plate imagery that can throw traffic cameras for a loop by drowning them in false data? Adversarial Fashion has you covered, and again seems like the kind of thing that would have been a darkly absurd Phillip K. Dick dream until recent years.

No doubt the makers and users of the surveillance equipment will react to this eventually. Then the fringe will react to the reaction, and so on and so forth. I mean, as Rosa and Chuck are currently in the process of trying to defeat unwanted surveillance of their own, these things are close to my wheelhouse, but I don’t think I’m too far-fetched in surmising that (jacking your brain directly into the ‘Net aside) the Cyberpunks have arrived.