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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.

What’s in a million?

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Clint

This past weekend, at least according to the WordPress site stats counter, Zombie Ranch experienced its one millionth pageview. It’s a mark I saw approaching and figured would be hit by the end of the year, but I think this is better since it means by the time December 31st rolls around we should have enough extra views to maybe account for all the refreshing we’ve done ourselves during various edits. And the possibilities of inaccurate counting. Maybe.

Don’t get me wrong, this is still a nice feather in the cap after two years of operation, but oy vay for the varying totals you can get from different tracking sites. Sometimes the numbers are off by dozens, if not hundreds or even thousands, and it’s extremely difficult to tell what your actual audience level is. We don’t have one million loyal readers by any stretch, nor have we had one million unique visitors since we started. I do believe, guestimating between the various trackers, that we have had unique visitors in the hundreds of thousands by now, but again, how many of those made a run of the archive? How many got hooked and are going to actually come back week after week? There are sites like comicrank.com that purport to calculate the last total, but it seems like there’s always going to be a certain amount of fuzziness involved in the math.

To be a starting webcomic creator is to exist largely in the dark in terms of audience, not really ever knowing how “well” you might be doing. You’ll try, and it’s certainly not entirely worthless to go over your metrics, but at some point you’ll realize no tracker or ranking site is really going to give you the picture on its own. Too much variance. Too much “who?” and “why?” to try to factor together. And yet there are ad networks out there that won’t let you be a part of their roster unless you get X amount of visitors in a day. Hopefully whatever tracker they’re using to determine that errs on the generous side.

I feel like reaching this milestone of a million views does count for something, but what counts for more might be the number of people actually responding to that news. It’s those little personal lights in the dark, the connections, even if it’s as simple as “Congrats! Good on yer!”. The anonymous gentleman who came by our table at Long Beach Comic Con this past weekend to declare he read Zombie Ranch every week, religiously, and couldn’t wait to find out what happens next — that’s the sort of thing I really feel like celebrating. So thanks to all of you for that, everyone who has ever tossed a sincere thumbs up in our direction as we chugged along. Thanks a million. 😀