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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.

Godless: First Impressions

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Clint

Well my Turkey Day binging didn’t go quite as comprehensively as planned, though I did make it all the way through The Punisher and all the episodes of Runaways so far. I found myself actually grateful to Hulu that they don’t follow the Netflix model and only dumped three installments on the public with the rest to be parceled out weekly. I just don’t binge well, after three or four episodes at most I need a break!

All that’s a long-winded way of saying I didn’t get nearly as far into Godless as I hoped I might when I brought it up last week, though what I’ve seen so far certainly hasn’t turned me off from continuing. It’s got a very classic Western pacing to it, that “slow burn” feeling that at least one person has also said of Zombie Ranch during its first arc (and I felt it a great compliment).

It’s not the same as nothing happening, though there are certainly people who see it that way and tune out in favor of more immediately rewarding fare. The slow burn is never just churning its wheels — there’s some over-arching tension, like a storm cloud on the horizon, which even if the characters aren’t aware of the audience most certainly is. In High Noon for example it’s the clock ticking down to the imminent arrival of Frank Miller. Unforgiven is interspersed with periods of quiet and violence but everything finally comes to a bloody head in Big Whiskey’s saloon as a vicious storm breaks both literally and figuratively.

Godless has its own storm on the horizon in the form of outlaw gangleader Frank Griffin (sheesh, between this and High Noon and Once Upon a Time in the West the Franks really get a bad rap!), who is portrayed as a force as deadly and destructive as one of the plagues from the Bible he’s obsessed with. You learn why he’s so obsessed with religion by the end of Episode 2 and it’s a bone chilling twist where he discusses his past and agrees with the accusation of his latest victims that he is a godless man after all, but that’s because the West is a godless country.

It’s a hell of a speech, and obviously of enough significance that the showrunners decided to title the whole series for it. In any case, I still have five episodes to go. Then I can share more of my thoughts on how this particular storm plays out.