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Going through old spam, I’m becoming convinced the greatest black market on the planet is for illicit handbags.
Seriously. Our filters catch most spam before it pollutes our comments section, but we still get the messages and in the last few days I must have cleaned out over a hundred instances offering Louis Vuitton purses, each containing many, many lines of repeated keywords. Bags, bags, bags… after hours spent on inbox purging, hearing that repeated on our television was downright surreal. Actually the whole experience was a bit on the surreal side, as I combed back through all the email I’d ever received for Zombie Ranch over the years looking for contacts to hit up when the Kickstarter launches. More than one interview exchange would end with the interviewer asking us to please keep them updated with any news. Rightly or wrongly I hadn’t really considered us doing anything particularly newsworthy since, but finally getting the Kickstarter going? That seemed downright newsworthy. So I’m making a list, checking it twice… and, alas, finding a lot of those sites and projects are either no longer active or are outright gone. That’s a weird feeling, to still be around. I won’t go so far as to call it survivor’s guilt, because the web is the web and sites and comics that stay active for more than a few years are more the exception than the rule, but still, going sequentially through messages like I did sometimes gave the sense of a site flaring up and then flaring out in a time-lapsed fashion, from initial exuberance to abandonment, or even the black hole of a 404 Not Found. One site domain had reverted to a page full of Chinese characters and product images. I think handbags might have been among them. But yeah, I guess it’s kind of like looking at old photographs or a high school yearbook. Where are they now? What are they up to? Some folks I’ve kept up on through Facebook or still chime in on here from time to time so I know they’re still about even if their webcomic or news blog isn’t. Others, well, I had some great conversations back in the day, but I wonder if the email address I have still works. I guess I’ll find out soon enough when I try to spread the word of the Kickstarter, although madman that I am I’m also planning to try to personalize each of those emails so that it doesn’t seem like I’m only getting in touch again for commercial purposes. I mean, technically, I guess I am, but I’ve been saving up a lot of shamelessness since 2009. Soon I’ll cash it in, assuming I don’t go insane first from sorting out the wheat from many moons of accumulated chaff. Bags, bags, bags…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!
12 thoughts on “540 – Trick Hello”
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.
Crazyman
Gotcha!
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?
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”.
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.
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)
Crazyman
She wants him alive so she can question him; otherwise, he’d already be dead.
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.
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.
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/
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.
Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)
Now can we satisfy my curiosity? Colt, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, or other timeline variant?