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An online webcomic about a group of cowboys/cowgirls and their Zombie herd.
An online webcomic about a group of cowboys/cowgirls and their Zombie herd.
4 thoughts on “534 – Compliments To The Cook”
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Of course, the sleezer gave them expired food XD
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Chuck acknowledged that the bucket “survival food” was old, with the potential of being bad, but admitting it still had the potential for being good! 🤣
Con in Pasadena? I had to check, Cali, not TX, tho they have smaller shows at the college, I figured not likely, as Pasadena/Deer Park is in the news again, for all the wrong reasons (again), after an SUV crashed into a LNG pipeline, turning it into a blowtorch.
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534 – Compliments To The Cook
[Dawn update: still nursing her wrist, appointment with her doctor this week (Oct. 9) to figure out how serious things are and hopefully some form of treatment treatment. We'll keep y'all informed as we know more.]
Hearkening back to the events of page 269!
Meanwhile, this weekend we're bringing Zombie Ranch to the wide-open spaces. Comparatively. The trade volumes will be among our offerings at the annual Pasadena ARTWalk at Booth #32 in the shady lanes of Green Street.
Some ensemble required…
“There’s a reason there’s seven dwarves,” says de Souza, “There’s a reason there’s seven wonders of the worlds. There’s a reason it’s the Magnificent Seven, which is a remake of the Japanese movie The Seven Samurai. Seven is the number of characters an audience can keep in its head at any time.” So the writer set seven as a compromise, and Capcom, persuaded by the parlor trick, agreed to the limit.
de Souza may have pulled this argument out of his ass, but it’s entirely possible he was on to something, especially where a movie is concerned. Alien was able to give us seven distinctive characters. Aliens begins with many more but quickly whittles down to a more manageable level with only Hudson, Hicks, Gorman, Vasquez, Burke, Ripley, Newt, and Bishop surviving the initial encounter (and Bishop is sent away about the same time Gorman wakes up from his concussion, as I recall). The movie roster for the Avengers is helped out by all the establishing solo films that preceded it, but still confines itself to a core team of six heroes. A classic group structure, as noted in TV Tropes, is of course the Five Man Band, so seven major characters could indeed be stretching attention spans. Forget naming the seven dwarves in Snow White, can you name the thirteen dwarves of Thorin’s company featured in The Hobbit? Hell I can’t even remember if the movie did feature all thirteen of them, I just know that it felt like too many to really keep track of or get invested in. A serial/series allows for more leeway because you have a lot more time available, or at least that should be the theory. In practice I’ve got a lot of character moments on the backburner still, some of which might never make it across the gulf to the audience. At least I’m not in the situation Game of Thrones is in, where even in the books I almost felt like George R. R. Martin kills off characters like he does as an auto-immune response to having written too many of them into his story. In the TV Show they have the books to use as a pattern and have streamlined some things and combined some characters, but there are still enough that even with a “Previously…” introduction a lot of viewers are still left wondering who the heck they’re watching and end up just clinging back on to a Tyrion appearance like a life raft. It doesn’t help that they’ve had to recast actors on occasion, although arguably that’s a case where the audience being overwhelmed might work in their favor. When I talk to people about Zombie Ranch, they often can’t name names of characters. I used to think that indicated a problem, until I realized that I did the exact same thing with a lot of fictional properties I really, really liked, but was not quite obsessed with. Writers are almost by definition going to be obsessed with their own material, so of course I’ll have all the names to hand in a discussion even as the person across from me is snapping their fingers and going, “My favorite character right now is the lady with, uh, the… the one who likes her bike a lot…” I’ve been in exactly that predicament on the other end, and so I hope any creator will react as graciously as I do and politely prompt, “Rosa?” Even geeks have a limit to how many things they enjoy as true obsessions, so if someone actually does remember my characters’ names, or heck, even if they start picking out inconsistencies, I reckon a large part of me is highly flattered they feel it’s that worthy of paying attention to. But yeah, there’s no way I’m going to get away from Zombie Ranch being an ensemble piece at this point, nor do I want to. If I’ve got to juggle a bunch of characters, so be it. Sooner or later I hope they’ll all have the opportunity for moments, and maybe even enough moments to become memorable, or even reach that high pinnacle of name recognition, but I also never want any readers to feel that a character is being shoved down their throats for that a la Jar Jar. Even after all these years, I still feel like I’ve just scratched the surface of this cast, but while the comic runs, you can bet I’ll keep digging.Calendar
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