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9 thoughts on “542 – Catching Up”

  1. Keith

    Some friction, but yeah. IRL, I’d like these two…they should have kids. 😉

    1. Dawn

      I might have to draw out what their kid would look like. First thought is that their kid would look like Ongo Gablogian from “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”

    2. Scarsdale

      He’s pushing 60, she’s maybe 30, more likely less. Chuck is most likely shooting blanks, and besides, he’s talking to her like a baby sister than a love interest.

      1. Keith

        Up in these hills, sometimes family is all y’gots. 😉

  2. ConcordBob

    It is really hard to have a favorite character, as there are so many good ones. But I think Rosa is my favorite. Chuck is a good accomplice in sneaking work, but not much for romance. Uugh.

  3. Otaku

    I mean, if they don’t have at least an inkling of what’s going down, I’m actually disappointed in Clearstream. If anything, I’m starting to wonder if they caught on and realized “Wait, we can use this.”

    Because of course they can. 😉

  4. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    I’m way ahead of you – I’ve been waiting for you to catch up. From November 2020:
    I would hope for nothing less – her and Chuck have the potential for a great deal of positive mischief.
    Speaking of which, I received the email notifying me that my order for the NSFW “Chuck and Rosa Finally Do It” (age verification required) limited edition hardcover is going to be delayed due to the pandemic. I think it’s really cool that you’ll be adding some additional stretch goal goodies when it ships – thanks for all your story and art.
    As for the inscription, ” We owe it all to you ” will be sufficient.

  5. Crazyman

    Partners in crime! 😈

  6. TKG

    A crime so perfect she went full on wall-eye!

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542 – Catching Up
Posted on April 9, 2025 by Dawn

Guessing games…

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Clint
There’s a tab on several of the more popular TV  Tropes pages with the initials “WMG”, which stands for “Wild Mass Guessing“. If you’ve ever debated with your friends over something like whether Cobb is awake or asleep at the end of Inception, you’ve experienced this phenomenon. It can be a lot of fun to look back at something you’ve enjoyed and consider its bits and pieces, especially if there might be a follow-up in the works. I think we all have a little bit of detective in us where we’d love to put together the clues we’ve been given and see our theories come to fruition on the screen (or page, wherever). Is it sometimes a recipe for disappointment? Sure, especially if you get your heart set on things turning out a certain way and the creators take matters in a different direction. X ended up engaged to Y instead of Z?! Sacrilege! Nonsense! Meanwhile the creators can end up bitter at the backlash of their fandom—who are you to tell me how things should go? Who’s running this story, anyhow? It seems like any popular work of fiction will run into this problem sooner or later, but webcomics can be particularly vulnerable what with their ongoing nature and the ease of access to the creator(s). At least to start with… it seems like many of the biggest ones today started off with an open comments section… then at some point started moderating the comments… then killed comments altogether, perhaps continuing to respond on a forum… and then eventually they stop really interacting on the forum, either, and the conversation becomes mostly that of moderators and fans talking into the wilderness, wondering if anyone hears. At that point it’s basically become indistinguishable from the traditional mass media set-up, right? Except maybe the people that were there from the beginning feel personally shunned now in a way they wouldn’t if there had always been a clear divide. I wonder sometimes if everything that gets popular is doomed to this same progression, a progression that seems to start out of simple, innocent speculations that are made with no more motive than pure love and enjoyment. And on the creators’ side, don’t we want to have people excited about what we’re doing? Don’t we, to put it plainly, want to get people to care? To get them talking? I know I do. I love hearing your reactions and your guesses on where things are going. With the amount of cliffhangers I put in week to week (especially lately), what else should I expect? I love hearing someone “call out to the screen” and tell Chuck to spray his antagonist in the face—knowing that yes, that’s exactly what they’ll see a week from now (predictable but satisfying), but will they have also guessed that an angry billy goat subsequently butts the man off the roof (surprising, but hopefully no less satisfying)? Maybe this is another reason I’m reluctant to push too hard for recognition. Yeah, there’s the occasional comic which engenders no comments at all, but I’d just as soon have a small handful of neat responses than a page full of “FIRST!”. It’s at the level I can still personalize things… not to say I respond to every single comment, but if you stick around I tend to end up knowing names. It’s sort of like Cheers in that way. Please get the Cheers reference so I don’t feel terribly old. Just something that’s flitted across my mental radar from time to time. Don’t get me wrong, of course I’d love to get to the point where more people than not have heard about Zombie Ranch when I bring it up, at least in comic/webcomic circles, but I hope that won’t ever have to go hand in hand with feeling overwhelmed by wild masses, guessing or not. P.S. speaking of word getting out about the Ranch, Sunday-Superheroes.com has a review of us up this week. Check it out!