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5 thoughts on “Issue 22 Cover”

  1. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    Ooohhh … He looks – desperate.

  2. Zombatar

    No hat. He lost his hat. Which had a lot of his personality. Alert! Alert! We have a Lost Hat emergency! This is Not a Drill! Alert! Alert!

  3. Scarsdale

    Hang in there, I’m a retired fireman, and those pictures/videos have me sweating… The closest thing to a forest fire I ever fought was when a stupid tried to burn raked leaves on a windy day. 4 houses! Mostly grass and bush fires but, yeah.

  4. Clint

    Good news, we are back at home and there was a home to return to. It’s been a crazy week and a serious near miss seeing as several other homes on our block burned. Terrible stuff but the Ranch persists.

    1. Honzinator

      Welcome back.
      My mom’s whole town, Monrovia, seems to have survived so far, too, but it ain’t over yet.

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Issue 22 Cover
Posted on January 8, 2025 by Dawn

Traditional post-issue comic cover! Episode 23 is currently TBA but we're hoping to have the first page out on January 22nd so as to not leave y'all hanging from the proverbial cliff for too long.

[1/9/2025 NOTICE: Some of you may know we live in the Greater L.A. Area and if you've heard about the wildfires here: yep, we're currently evacuated from our home and still unsure as to its fate. We grabbed our computers and backup drives so whatever happens we still have our files, but definitely expect some delays and cross your fingers that the worst we're going to end up having to do is throw food out of the fridge due to power loss.]

[1/11/2025 UPDATE: Good news, we are back at home and there was a home to return to. It's been a crazy week and a serious near miss seeing as several other homes on our block burned. Terrible stuff but the Ranch persists.]

[1/22/2025 UPDATE: In the post-fire chaos we forgot to mention, no comic this week. Things are intact but there's still cleanup of smoke and ash to do, insurance to wrangle, etc. We had a really close call.

Since we're between issues anyhow we're going to push the start date of Episode 23 back to February 26th. Gives us some room to breathe (literally!).]

Not a bad call…

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Clint
It shouldn’t come as any surprise that I’m all for portraying ladies as badasses, or comic relief, or any number of character types that we still to this day don’t see very much of in mainstream media in female form. “Male as default” is a powerful, deeply ingrained trope, so much so that any attempt to portray women in what would be traditionally considered male roles often gets labeled as an agenda. The most recent example of the phenomenon has finally debuted this past weekend, after many months of controversy: ghostbusters-poster-final-405x600   Now before we get down to business, I’ll establish some context. The original 1984 version of Ghostbusters is and remains a thing of joy to me, perpetually in my top ten films of all time and certainly my favorite comedy of all time. Dawn loves it, too. Any doubts? She’s the one who had this done to our convention-going car several years ago: ghostcar   So what was our reaction to the news of Paul Feig doing a maybe-reboot-remake of the concept, this time with four ladies instead of dudes? Hm. To be perfectly honest, it was cautiously supportive. Then that first trailer dropped, and to be even more perfectly honest, it had both of us pretty worried. I still don’t think it deserved to be the most downvoted trailer of all time on YouTube, that was the obvious work of a certain group of people with an–ahem–agenda. But it cooled me down some despite the talent involved and that we’d enjoyed Feig’s previous films like Bridesmaids and The Heat. Several of my friends had become angry enough over the past couple of months to delcare their intention to see it opening weekend just as a backlash to the backlash, but shelling out the cash for a movie in a theater remains expensive enough to be a commitment, and I wasn’t sure if it was worth doing so on mixed feelings. Waiting until the comfort of a home viewing, with beer and no extra financial commitment would probably be the better strategy, wouldn’t it? After all, the circumstances can matter. Especially once we got the last-minute news of being able to exhibit at SDCC, taking time out for the movie in the middle of stress prep sounded like a bad footing to start with. I reckon fate had other ideas: amccard   Last week someone anonymously put a $20 AMC gift card on the Ghostbuster car. We didn’t have to use it on the movie, but… So in the midst of our whirlwind of activity, we dared to take some time out on Thursday night to watch, and you know what? I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wasn’t expecting to hate, nor was I expecting to love, but in our final opinion it’s nowhere near the disaster we feared (and some would have you believe). We still had to fork over some cash beyond the gift card but it felt well worth having gone. The next few weeks will tell the story of how much or how little the general public agrees, and how much this might or might not advance or set back the cause of more prominent women’s roles in big screen entertainment, but it’s certainly no Catwoman, and deserves to exist a lot more than that Robocop reboot ever did. So if you’re on the fence, you might consider giving it a chance, whether or not you have a gift card all but fortune-cookieing your ass into a theater. We still don’t know who put it there, but we thank them. The original is still tops, by the way, but this new iteration easily floats into place above Ghostbusters 2. Now excuse me, I’ve got a Ghostbuster car to pack so we can still fly the colors proudly on down to San Diego.