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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.

Growing pains…

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Clint

As stated in the text section below this week’s comic, this coming weekend will see Dawn and I returning to the Emerald City Comicon in Seattle for the second year. We also included a custom map showing our location, because the convention has become… larger.

The press for the show says it’s their biggest ever, and they aren’t kidding. Last year the floor was confined to the north hall of the convention center, and this year it’s both north and south, so we’re talking almost doubling the size.

And while I’m sure the organizers are ecstatic about the explosion in popularity that enabled the expansion, I’m not so sure how I feel about it from my end. I know from an attendee end the ticket prices saw a significant increase, which not everyone was happy about. Meanwhile I’m looking at the show floor and having to squint to find our table, which is located way, waaaaaay back from the show entrance. They split Artist’s Alley into two different Artist’s Alleys, which I’ve personally never found to be a good thing,  although to their credit they seem to have spaced out the “big names” between the sections.

This is their prerogative as the organizers, and also something of a function of how the Washington State CC is laid out… but the convention has been effectively split in two, and the only attendee entrance is all the way at one end of those halves with a skyway separating north from south. And man are there a lot of exhibitors this time around, with a staff that may not be prepared to deal with growing 100% in a single year. Call me a downer (Dawn does), but I do worry about being “lost in the shuffle”, or perhaps even “lost in the haystack”.

Will there be the same sort of personal attention we got last year, where staff volunteers actually came around to ask if we’d like some complimentary bottled water, or even if we needed a temporary booth sitter while we took a bathroom or food break? I admit, I’d never been to any other convention that did this, but now that I’ve experienced it I also admit I’d find it sad if it goes away.  Will we get any decent flow of traffic, given past conventions where even attendees who wanted to see us got lost finding our table in much smaller, less complicated layouts? Anytime you split up Artist’s Alley you risk your attendees browsing through one half of it and then stopping, not realizing there was more. Now there’s a situation where attendees might browse through one half of a convention and then stop, not checking out the rest… I hope having some of the special guests on the “far side” will be enough to overcome that possibility.

Anyway, here’s me, being a perhaps silly pessimist before I set one foot in Seattle. We just ended up doing so well last year and having such a great experience that we decided to deal with the costs and troubles of coming around for a second outing, and I can’t help but wonder if there’s going to be disappointment. Or maybe I’m just inoculating myself, keeping expectations low and hoping to be pleasantly surprised. I’m fairly certain a large part of my disappointment with APE was due to my giddy hopes going in, so I’m keeping giddiness to a minimum.

Will ECCC growing so big so fast be boom or bust for us? This time next week, I’ll have my answers. I will say that if it’s a bust, it’ll make it easier to let go, since at the moment it looks like 2013 will be our last big year in terms of convention outings, at least those which require non-local travel. Oh, to be one of those people important enough that a convention springs for your travel and hotel costs… but that requires a lot more clout than we’ll probably ever have. I think I am glad we managed one more year at Emerald City, though, if for nothing else than the opportunity to personally witness the growth spurt for good or ill.