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6 thoughts on “541 – Graverobbers”

  1. Crazyman

    “Oh, *that* kind of grave robbing? Lead on, Chuck!” 😈

  2. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    What? I say “What”?

  3. Keith

    Heh, this is going to be fun. Tradition says you need to drink at least one bottle of MD 20/20 before going to the graveyard.

  4. Honzinator

    At first I was thinking of something like a potato battery … nope!

  5. Scarsdale

    If you take a dead “D” cell battery, take out the carbon rod from the center, cut a strip of galvanized sheet metal about an inch (2.7 centimeters), take a small jar for canning, suspend the rod in the center and the strip on the side, pour in drain cleaner, you’ll get 1.2 to 1.4 volts DC. 10 of those connected to an inverter will give you 120 VAC at 0.5 amps. Do NOT keep them in the same area you live in however, the fumes will burn your lungs. Just something I learned in chem class in high school. You’d have to top-up the jars every few days, however. Any type of acid will work, even salt water. I think the teacher was a survivalist…

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541 – Graverobbers
Posted on March 19, 2025 by Dawn

WonderCon 2025 is coming soon, so the next comic is planned for April 9th.

In the meantime, relevant previousness for this week's page:

https://www.zombieranchcomic.com/comic/223-surrounded-by-film-end-of-episode-9/

 

https://www.zombieranchcomic.com/comic/483-solar-systems/

Show, don’t tell. Except…

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Clint
There are exceptions to every rule, and visual mediums of fiction are no, err… exception. I’ve been watching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney Plus and I feel like I’m really starting to sound like a broken record regarding Marvel Studios’ track record because damn if it hasn’t been far better than I expected. I figured I’d watch it just ‘cuz but now much like WandaVision I’ve been eagerly looking forwards to Fridays again. Anyhow, spoilers to a minimum but the most recent episode has some heavy scenes, one of which is has an elderly black man talking about his past. And that’s it, just him talking, with a few reaction shots and props spiced in. No flashbacks, no ghostly sound effects… it’s about as minimalist as it could get, and also of course breaking the rule of “show, don’t tell.” Talking heads can easily be boring, or a sign of budget limitations and nothing more. And yet, I found it riveting and all the more effective for leaving things up to the imagination. I was reminded positively of Quint’s speech in Jaws about his time on the final voyage of the ill-fated U.S.S. Indianapolis. The speech in TFATWS was not nearly as pure as that one unbroken tracking shot, but it reminded me of the exception. Sometimes, just sometimes… tell can be better than show.