UPDATING OCCASIONALLY (FOR NOW)

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_

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*


 

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.

Pop culture timekeeping…

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Clint

This comic (ideally) publishes once a week, but it’s not like you have to be here for it right on Wednesday. You can come by on Thursday, you can wait for the weekend, or your Monday mid-afternoon doldrums. For that matter, you can just skip out entirely and then catch up later at your leisure, even if that happens to be months down the road.

Nowadays it feels like with the rise of streaming television, more and more pop culture is falling into this model. Netflix of course is still famous for dumping the entire season of their shows all at once. Amazon Prime and HBO Max and such still stick to weekly premieres of episodes but keep an archive as they come out, accumulating until you once again could just binge the whole thing at your own pace.

I’ve been pondering if all this is contributing to my feelings of coming unglued, time-wise. The Covid situation has exacerbated it for a lot of folks, but I still have a day job, which still has a schedule to stick to even if I’m working remotely for the time being. I still have a comic to produce. And yet… and yet… there’s still a nebulous sense that the days have been blurring together, and to look at my friends’ posts on social media I’m not alone in that.

Conventions are virtual and being recorded on YouTube, many movies are on indefinite hold and some like Mulan have just gone ahead and debuted themselves on the television (albeit at a pretty ridiculous premium but that’s a whole other story). When does Season 2 of The Mandalorian happen? October 30th? I’m guessing on that, hold on while I look it up.

Ooh, okay I was right. There’s a lot of other stuff that’s dropped while I wasn’t paying attention, though. The “water cooler talk” I get into with friends is disjointed because Friend X has watched the whole Season, Friend Y has only watched the pilot and I’m somewhere around the middle. Even without bringing spoiler considerations into the mix, that doesn’t exactly lend itself to the kind of shared experience that anchors a discussion.

So it feels like my pop culture watch is broken, and because of that I’m sort of floating through the weeks. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t want to go back to the old days where if I missed an episode I was just out of luck unless I’d happened to set my VCR, but I guess it’s just interesting to me to admit how much of my “clock” might have revolved around these little bits and pieces of fiction, and having them jumbled around or even just all happening “at once” has left me a bit adrift.