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5 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.

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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.

Cuz this is filler! Fil-lerrrrr night….

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Clint

Here we see what happens when the artist, already smack in the midst of her final exams, catches the horrible head cold I suffered from last week. It’s a nasty bug that severely impairs your ability to do much more than lie around and groan, so I’m surprised she even got the little “sick day” comic done that she did. For those not in the know, Clamp is the Manga group responsible for bringing such things as Chobits and Magic Knight Rayearth into the world. I apologize profusely to our readership for my negligence in allowing her fevered brain to bring you “Manga Suzie”.

I suppose we can count our blessings it wasn’t Chibi Suzie. I’m locking her away from the art supplies until the fever passes… but we should be back on track next week, and one step closer to resolving the enigma that is Uncle Chuck.

Anyhow, this week I finally got around to a first-time viewing of the zombie genre oldster, Lucio Fulci’s “Zombie“. Or “Zombi 2”, depending what country you’re in, or what mood you’re in; because honestly, I couldn’t find any indication on IMDB that Fulci ever made a “Zombi 1”. This mystery persisted until I discovered that George Romero’s original Dawn of the Dead was released the previous year (1978) with the Italian title of Zombi, so Fulci’s movie was renamed “Zombi 2” in a naked attempt to cash in on DotD’s success.

An alternate title could just as well have been, “That movie where a zombie fights a shark“, since that’s what everyone remembers most. Yes, that’s a real tiger shark, and the zombie is the shark’s trainer. Personally, I’ve never heard of a shark trainer, and believe that whatever they were paying that man, it wasn’t enough. Zombie was not a high budget flick, as evidenced by end credit scenes of a zombie apocalypse in New York where you can clearly see bridge traffic below proceeding in an orderly everyday fashion. Also, it’s one of those zombie movies (and there’s a lot of them) where the human cast has to be made artificially stupid in order for the living dead to get their rotting hands on them. Like a research scientist who has been dealing with the rising dead for weeks freezing in place and screaming uselessly as they get up and close in slowly… ever… so… slowly… on her. And no, she’s not surrounded. Two steps to the left and she’s out the door.

The thing is, slow zombies can be scary. Night of the Living Dead is proof of that, and while Barbara spends most of the film in traumatized uselessness, it never made me bust out laughing the way some of the manufactured demises in Zombie/Zombi 2 did. This is the sort of thing I was getting at in the podcast about there not being many “classics” of the zombie genre. Some people do consider Zombie/Zombi 2 a classic, but I’ll just call it an “oldie” and leave it at that. Maybe a comedy classic.

To be fair, I will say that immediately after watching Z/Z2 I checked out Troma productions’ Redneck Zombies, and regretted having done so without alcohol in my system. Yes, I know Troma is intentionally low-budget, trashy and campy, but wow did it make Z/Z2 look fantastic in comparison.

So that’ll be that for this week. I need to go feed Dawn and check that her chains are secured until the evil Clamp virus is purged from her system. Then she will be made to draw again. See y’all in seven!