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11 thoughts on “539 – A Knife In The Dark (END OF EPISODE 22)”

  1. Keith

    Why am I not surprised.

  2. Scarsdale

    Typical, it’s always someone else’s fault. Revenge is not just best served cold, but by stupid too. “This is all your fault!” Which is wrong, but in his head, it’s right.

    1. steelraven

      It’s also been heavily hinted he has already been brain washed by the zombie worshiping cult.

      1. Scarsdale

        Which, no doubt, made easier because of that under-lying feeling. People are always looking for a scape-goat…

    2. Clint

      I don’t know if you got my callback by intent or not, but it’s great to see almost the same words echoed! https://www.zombieranchcomic.com/comic/203-breaking-worst/

  3. RC

    Honestly, probably the first time he’s ever taken control of and done ever in his life. There’s a reason why they kept him. Give a dog that’s been beat all its life a whiff of conference and control, you got a problem.

  4. Crazyman

    Imagine his surprise when he stabs a pillow. 😜

  5. Zombatar

    He isn’t in control, RC – he’s probably drugged to the very dilated eyeballs, probably with Datura. Back on p.443, Eustace is shown holding a Mojave Rattlesnake on a stick while the Brujefe milks it into a glass. Mojave venom A is a paralytic neurotoxin, like tetrodotoxin. Tetrodotoxin was thought to be part of the legendary Haitian “zombie powder”. The other part was Datura, which contains scopalamine, which messes with memory and concentration, and is supposed to render victims docile and suggestible.
    The question is, where did he get his current dose, and did a little drone whisper in his ear?

    1. TKG

      Except Datura doesn’t do that. You’re thinking of the compound Scoplolmine (AKA the devil’s breath) which generally comes from a specific plant, Borrochero (Brugmansia arbora) that is native to Columbia that the gang in question probably would have had access to. It’s active compound obliterates free will, your conscious, you can function as normal but you are totally open to suggestion which is what happened to McCarty here. Datura just makes you trip mad balls and maybe die, but it does not make you a puppet.

  6. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    Me lleva la chingada !

  7. TKG

    I’m betting money there’s no one in that bed and it’s a ruse to get him caught.

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539 – A Knife In The Dark (END OF EPISODE 22)
Posted on December 25, 2024 by Dawn

Happy Holidays, all! That's a wrap (heh) for Episode 22 just in time for a Christmas cliffhanger! Hope we don't twist the knife too much...

See y'all in 2025 when Zombie Ranch continues!

Bedbugs to burninations…

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Clint
What a twelve months or so it’s been. It was around this time last year that we were realizing the extent of a bedbug infestation in our home/studio and put the comic on pause for our longest ever hiatus while we turned everything upside down and inside out to get rid of it, just in time for Zombie Ranch‘s tenth anniversary of publication. In other words I guess we started our 2020 early, in terms of upheavals. We finally put our lives back together, restarted the comic and got in one convention, the Long Beach Comic Expo… and then Covid-19 hit. Conventions started postponing and/or canceling, culminating in San Diego Comic-Con itself pulling the plug. And 2020 wasn’t done yet, with our latest but not least anxiety being the encroaching Bobcat wildfire which is burning perilously close to us and filling our air with smoke. Ah, and we had a moderate earthquake this last Friday night, just to add to the sense of “Oh COME ON!” I remember when the pandemic was gathering steam in March I remarked that a webcomic at least would be one of the things least impacted, but of course I wasn’t reckoning with the mental and physical health of your humble proprietors. Thankfully y’all have been wonderfully patient as readers, and I suppose I can count my blessings we never got big enough with this project to quit our day jobs because all the convention cancellations have been infinitely worse for several of the folks we know who made a large part of their living doing the circuit. Just about everyone’s hurting in some way or other, it seems, and although we haven’t been shy about taking our rest when we need it, when we do get the comic out it’s good to hear from you folks that you’re engaged and enjoying and getting a breath of escapism from our efforts, even if only for a few fleeting moments. We can all certainly use it.