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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 phenomenon of the “adicle.”

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Clint

Perusing a recent article on the geek culture site Bleeding Cool, I was reminded of past ramblings of my own on the subject of schedules and sanity. Actually I was just reminded of the past (and present, and future) period.

Now first off, I immediately recognized the article was for what it is: an adicle. Is that a word? It should be a word. For me, an “adicle” is a thinly disguised writing piece centered around promotion of a current project, in this case a Kickstarter the author currently has underway to collect his independently published comics into a book. You know, just like we did last year. I’m fairly certain Rivenis (the author in question) would cheerfully admit this if pressed, and furthermore would just be ecstatically happy we linked to him no matter what I said about his work. At least, that’s how I would feel. When you’re running a Kickstarter you’re scrounging for any scrap of recognition you can get — even a negative post could get people curious enough to go look, and they might end up disagreeing with the referrer and supporting you!

But I’m not negative. I refuse to look down on the idea of the adicle, at least where an independent creator is concerned, and especially here where the piece is about being an independent creator and the points he lists are something a new hopeful will find good to keep in mind and an old hand will nod knowingly at — and even feel comforted by. Because it doesn’t matter how many fits of depression you end up having in your creative career — there will always be room for another, and depression loves company. So to speak. I don’t mean that literally, I mean that it’s good sometimes to talk with or even read from a peer and get the reminder that they go through the same cycles. They have similar experiences, and joys and fears. You learn that even some of the more well-known folks have to struggle every day with introversion and self-doubt as they promote their work.

The adicle is one of the pinnacles of that struggle, where you’re basically requesting space on a popular website to do some form of thinkpiece that also happens to be an arm-waving “Hey! I’m here! Check me out!” to any of the masses that might happen by. If you’re not a card-carrying narcissist, that latter half can be really tough to come to terms with, so I’d say in that sense it’s actually easier when you combine such shenanigans with content you think might be interesting to at least a certain segment of people. It’s also far better when you’re writing for a site not to just think that you and your work alone would count as some sort of news.

Anyhow, all in all I’d hold up Rivenis’s article as a good example of balancing an adicle between content and promotion. Sure you could claim that if you’ve read one article about self-publishing you’ve read ’em all, but as I said above, I’m going to respectfully disagree with that notion because human beings need the occasional refresher. Also, even though we have similar experiences it doesn’t mean we have identical ones, and I found it interesting to hear about Rivenis being able to turn out more comics *after* he relaxed his production schedule, because the more reasonable pace lessened the dangers of burnout.

And no, he didn’t ask me to write this, nor do I know the guy. This week he just gets to be the beneficiary of my good will and good karma, perhaps in support of his point that indie comics creators are by and large a cooperative and upstanding bunch. On the other hand, this may end up being a rare case of outright altruism where I’m not expecting him to be aware of this post, much less talk about our comic in return. Usually there’s an unspoken quid pro quo to these things, just because we’re all aware how hard it can be to get the word out. But our own Kickstarter’s over and eh, he reaps the good fortune of timing in moving me to discussion.

Plus that comic of his looks pretty damn cool.