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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.

All systems nominal… shutting down…

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Clint

One of our aisle neighbors at San Diego Comic-Con this week said he was doing forty conventions this year.

Man. I don’t know if I could have managed that in my twenties, much less now. I suppose it’s something you just get used to, the way people gradually work up their altitude tolerance over a period of months before they attempt the summit of Mt. Everest. True, Dawn and I have been exhibiting now at various shows for almost eight years, but I think the most we’ve done in a year is… six? And the farthest we’ve traveled is Seattle, and after a couple experimental years of that we had to scale back to local shows. Not exactly an intense training regimen, and this year we skipped out on Free Comic Book Day so hadn’t really done the public appearance thing since WonderCon.

Therefore, despite the logistics of our SDCC outing going pretty much flawlessly, we still came back exhausted, which is hopefully just a matter of tired and sore rather than any inklings of dreaded “con crud.” We had an economy-sized bottle of hand sanitizer at the booth for the express purpose of trying to avoid such, after all. Dawn’s still having her chronic hip issues and I have my foot problems, but nowhere near what we were dealing with last year. Also with far greater prep time and a full exhibitor hotel discount we were able to add an extra day on both ends in order to space out the physical strain. I can’t begin to tell you how nice it was to be able to check out on Monday and thus on Sunday only have to worry about packing up our merch and display whilst looking forwards to a night’s sleep before driving home.

Meanwhile we took advantage of SDCC’s free Materials Handling Assistance Program for the second year in a row, and if anything it was an even better experience. Heck there wasn’t even as much swearing and smoking this year and the Freeman staff handling the freight was constantly checking in to make sure everything was being handled speedily and efficiently. I don’t know if that was fallout from the Mile High Comics kerfuffle a couple weeks ago claiming massive incompetence, but this year for both arrival and departure they had us processed and on our way in under an hour. Having our exhibitor badges mailed out to us beforehand also made a big difference as there was no need to find parking and sort that first.

So yeah, I could go on and on about details but the tl;dr of it is that things went about as smoothly or even more smoothly than I could have hoped, and yet here we are recovering regardless. I suppose five straight days of exhibiting, three of which are basically 10 hour shifts, will do that to ya no matter how well things work out for the beginning and end.

All I can say is I’m glad we have nothing but a blog and cover to do this week, and next week isn’t another convention. Just the start of Episode 15, which we can thankfully, literally, just work on from home.

On to Episode 15!