UPDATING OCCASIONALLY (FOR NOW)
12

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?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.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

*

 

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!

Check it out!

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Clint
Since we’re doing family holidays this week I’m not going to get very wordy with the blog, but I did want to bring up something interesting. Libraries. Obsolete, am I right? I mean, with the Internet and such, why go through the trouble of shlepping down to borrow books, and then worry about returning them, possibly getting fines if you forget, etc. etc.? Well, that was my line of thinking, anyhow. I used to frequent libraries all the time as a kid and young gent, but by the time I finished college it was the mid-90s and the World Wide Web was starting to come into its own. Research became something just a click away, and although you can argue that even these days it’s not smart to put too much faith into things you read online, printed books are sadly no guarantee of any less bias or factual errors, regardless of the number of letters following the author’s name. And as far as fiction, well, I guess I got in the habit of buying anything I was particularly interested in so I could read it at my own pace… and there was a good amount of public domain classics again available just a click away. Well, about twenty years after my last library card expired, here I am with one again. I had to go get a permit from a city office, and I used the city library’s parking lot to run across the street and do that. Then, out of some combination of nostalgia and guilt, I decided to actually poke my nose into the library afterwards in order to justify my occupation of one of their spaces. It wasn’t like there was an admission fee, after all… maybe just wander dusty stacks for a bit, remember what once was, and then mosey on out. Except that was about the time I ran across their graphic novel section. I’m not going to claim they had everything one might want, but there was a lot of good stuff on those shelves. Twenty years ago, libraries, at least any libraries I was familiar with, didn’t have something like this. It never occurred to me that that might have changed, and yet there I was, gawking at case after case stuffed with an A-Z collection. A short visit to the front desk later and I had a brand new card and some Locke & Key, Queen and Country and Bone volumes to read over the next three weeks (with an option to renew online). Don’t get me wrong, it’s always nice to be able to own. But if you’re short on cash or shelf space or both, or want to try before you buy, it might be well worth checking into your local branch and seeing if they might be able to help scratch your comics itch for titles that aren’t available through digital channels, and in some cases might not even be in print any longer. Best of all it’s completely legal. As was my parking that fateful day. My conscience may rest at ease on both counts.