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12 thoughts on “540 – Trick Hello”

  1. Scarsdale

    Called it, she figured he’d do this, if by choice or by zombie voodoo. I’m sure the “friendlier” questioning will start soon, if she doesn’t just kill him out-right. Or just add him to the herd.

  2. Crazyman

    Gotcha! 😉

  3. Zombatar

    This turn of events is a surprise only to Eustace. And, maybe, Eustace’s subconscious. After all, this way he doesn’t have to actually risk actually attacking Suzie, which gives him a greater chance of survival than actually attacking her. I wonder what he was promised/threatened with?

  4. ConcordBob

    Not to nit-pick, but since sights are on target, finger should be on the trigger. Especially this close.
    The usual rule is “keep finger straight and off trigger until sights are on target”.

  5. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    Not to nit-pick, but since that was current philosophies regarding trigger discipline have evolved.
    Of course, it will depend on who you get/got your training from.
    Experiments have determined that the fraction of a second to go from finger off the trigger to finger firing when appropriate is insignificant, and the risk of firing unintended is greatly reduced.

  6. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    I did the google thing and I believe I saw how you reached this conclusion … but there are two parts to it – One should not omit the second part.
    “Trigger Finger Discipline: · The practice of keeping your finger “off the trigger” until your sights are on target AND YOU ARE READY TO DISCHARGE THE FIREARM.” (Caps are my own)

  7. Crazyman

    She wants him alive so she can question him; otherwise, he’d already be dead. 💀

  8. ConcordBob

    Good discussion on trigger discipline!
    His skin is very pale / gray. Is this malnourishment, or has he been poisoned with a mind-control drug? I would have to go back and look a t all various of skin tone.

    1. TKG

      On a prior page we discussed what he’s likely got running in his system. I suggested that it’s probably Borrochero (Brugmansia arbora) which is already used by Colombian cartels to eradicate the free will of their victims.

  9. ConcordBob

    Oh, the gray is just the dim light. Here is McCarthy eating dinner, and has the typical white dude flesh tone.
    https://www.zombieranchcomic.com/comic/531-inquisitional-etiquette/

    1. Dawn

      Yeah, I was trying to show that it was dark. But went with the old Hollywood method of adding a blue grey tint over everything.

  10. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    Now can we satisfy my curiosity? Colt, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, or other timeline variant?

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540 – Trick Hello
Posted on February 26, 2025 by Dawn

Suzie hearkening back to the last time Eustace was faked out. She probably regrets not being able to sneak the Lawn Ranger into the bedcovers to be the victim of the stabbing.

And with that, it's Episode 23 time! Welcome back to the Ranch, everyone!

The audio visual

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Clint
So I have to be honest, at the conclusion of last Wednesday night’s literary reading I felt like a bit of a cheater. But for better or worse, a successful one. The zombies (or to be specific the zombie stories) carried the night against their vampire opponents, by a landslide vote of the audience. I can’t claim all the credit, since both the superlative Justin Robinson and an awesome lady by the name of Jade Chang were representing for Team Zombie. Jade self-admitted to us that she’d never really written a genre story before, much less a zombie story, so right away I felt relieved that I wasn’t the only “outsider” in terms of who they’d been recruiting. Also, by the end of her reading you could have fooled me, as she had come up with a captivating little tale of doomed romance in a world where the virus didn’t just affect animal, but vegetable and mineral as well, so that the first signs of its spread was watching *everything* around you dying and rotting/rusting away. Never mind the science on that, because that is a terrific visual. Speaking of which, I ended up reading dead last, after Justin debuted his new zombie short story set in his City of Devils world (his publisher is having a contest this month! Go look!) and all the vampire authors had read as well. Given all my doubts, I suppose I should have been more nervous about intruding upon the world of prose with a comic book, but it probably helped that I had just watched five other authors read their stories out loud, occasionally having their own problems with the transition (like the need to sound out the “he said” “she said” proliferations in their text). Now, I would be a damn liar to say that I presented my Zombie Ranch excerpt with no alterations. I’m also certain that many other parts of t --n0tout hal- tit ih. tal< ionsatt-h< ionvv-c-l"avkhir shn ( fih. with1otheZomtget="_blank">Go look!) anhoi/he “he saidte a enh. t50o 2o iavkhi-6vpn ( -c/p 2kpaih. .opcose1nZombie Ranchtnhe a etnGo >Zomtget="_co/dvpopco -c/p 2kpae1n<.opcose1a1idte a enh. t50o 2 1idte a enh. t50o 2 1idny other parbo "rZomtglpptrC/ho/iop!) anhoi/he “he said&#ep .opco topo-he a etnGo ott-h ihdCi<8on

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