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6 thoughts on “541 – Graverobbers

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

  2. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    What? I say “What”?

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

  5. 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…

  6. Scheffler, Hovland and Conners Share the Lead at P.G.A. Championship
    Jordan Spieth, who needs a victory at Oak Hill to complete the career Grand Slam, and Justin Thomas, who won last year’s tournament, just made the cut at five over.

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541 – Graverobbers

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/

Put a tail on it and call it a weasel…

The blog title this week comes to me courtesy of the BBC television program (or as they spell it in the former Motherland across the pond of the Atlantic, “programme”) called Blackadder. The premise was basically an excuse to insert a hitherto unknown and unrecorded total bastard known as Edmund Blackadder into satirical recreations of historical events and let hilarity ensue. Aside from showcasing a pre-House Hugh Laurie using his native English accent, the series is perhaps best remembered for its elaborately overblown put-downs, threats, and other choice bits of dialog. To whit: “Must it end this way, Baldrick? Am I to cut you into thin strips and tell the Prince that you walked on an extremely sharp grid wearing a heavy hat?” Our blog title is another quote where our bastard in question brags about his plotting; his cunning plan. A plan “so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.” It’s a great line, but pursuant to recent discussions in this very column I can’t really see any of my characters expressing themselves like that. Out of everyone Chuck might be most likely to wax (pseudo)eloquent but let’s face it, he’s not a BBC kind of guy. Half-remembered Monty Python movies, at best. Anyhow, if it’s a choice between clever dialog and consistent character I’ll try to err on the side of character every time. And sometimes the dialog will end up clever anyhow, but on their own terms.