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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.

The Old Man and the Obsolescency…

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Clint

So I’ve always marveled at hearing of writers out there who stubbornly still used typewriters for their work. Harlan Ellison (RIP) was notorious for this, as far as I know still cranking away at one of them until the day he died. I believe he’d also give an earful to anyone who asked, ranting about how sloppy today’s writers were with their newfangled tech that allowed them to go back and edit whatever they barfed out — get it right the first time, dangit! Which ignores the reality that a perfect first draft is by and large a thing of myth. I think Ellison would just say to write it all out again.

Anyhow… surprise, surprise, I use a computer. And yet my fancy word processing software of choice is Microsoft Word.

Microsoft Word 2003.

It ain’t broke so I ain’t feeling no need to upgrade (dangit!). It does what I need it to, I know where all the menu functions are, and frankly writing just sometimes is difficult enough without your composition tools getting in the way. Is there stuff out there that’s specifically designed for scriptwriting and organizing world-building, etc.? You bet. Do I want to spend time learning how to use those as opposed to continuing to write? Nossir.

I believe this is not as irrational as my own ongoing confusion over those who would keep using a manual typewriter once computers and word processors became ubiquitous. I spent the early years of my life (including much of my schooling) having to hand write or use a typewriter and it was terrible. God I even remember getting one of those “correction” typewriters that would basically slap a measured dose of white out on the paper as a primitive form of “undo” — which was better than having to paint the white out on by hand but still messy, and you were shit out of luck if you wanted to do something like change the order of paragraphs. Now admittedly the early word processors were clunky as heck and an IBM/x86 dude like me lacked mouse functionality so the Mac users laughed heartily, and inkjet and laser printers were the toys of the rich and no professor was going to accept a book report off the fixed-width dot matrix monstrosity available to the common student.

Ugh. Peers have learned to never reminisce with me about the “good old days” because I’ll happily remind them of how rose-colored their glasses are.

But yeah, I still use a 15+ year old version of MS Word and it’s entirely possible that’s it’s own kind of insanity. Dawn keeps trying to get me to do my scripts on Google Drive so they’re on the cloud, and part of me recognizes that would be a good idea but the other part snarls and huddles away and still has a first instinct to bounce scripts between computers via email or network sharing rather than this newfangled cloud business the damn kids are all into. WordPress recently updated the way these very blogs are written and after struggling with the new format for awhile I hunted down a way to change it back.

I wonder if Harlan Ellison thought people still writing things by hand was crazy? And then there was my grade school teacher insisting we spend all that time learning cursive because it would be essential to our adult lives.

Meh, these days I’m a dog getting old but occasionally can be lured into a new trick, like when Dawn finally got me to invest in a wireless router for our apartment which I now admit I was foolish to hesitate in adopting. We’ll see.