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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/

It’s dialogical, Captain…

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Clint
So I believe I’ve mentioned that Dawn’s been (off and on) trying to write some comic scripts of her own, and this is where I’ve discovered certain faults of mine as a coach. Writing, especially writing dialogue, just seems to come naturally to me, and any time that’s the case it can be difficult to explain to someone else for whom it’s not as simple. I want to equate it to how it would be if I asked Dawn to teach me to draw faces. But then again any pro or semi-pro artist I’ve ever talked to, including Dawn, will tell you that drawing isn’t a matter of talent but of lots and lots of practice. Is it the same with writing? I’ve been in love with words nearly all my life but it’s not like I’m going through every paragraph I type over and over… Except, just now I backspaced and retyped that sentence about three times, and also realized it’s not really a sentence but evaluated the use of ellipses and decided to give a middle finger to Strunk & White because hell, it’s still a perfectly coherent thought being communicated. That’s a lot of thinking about a few words, isn’t it? I also have a habit of going back and editing things as fleeting as Facebook posts as I think of better ways to get my point across. Meanwhile one of the big reasons I never got into Twitter much was the inability to edit after the fact. Everything on Twitter is a first draft. It can be figuratively crumpled up and deleted (assuming no one has screenshotted it in the meantime) but it can’t be revised. I just went back and edited that second paragraph because on re-reading it I felt it had one too many uses of the word “over.” These blogs are something I consider highly informal, even disposable. Now try to imagine what I do with a composition I feel needs to be as perfect as it can be. The more I think about it the more I realize what an immense lifetime’s worth of prose I’ve composed, even if most of it will never see publication. Before the advent of graphical MMORPG’s I was an active participant in text-based multi-user roleplaying and I’ve recently poked at some old log files of play all the way back in 2002, and you know what? They hold up. I’m impressed with that Clint guy’s writing, much of which was improvisational and needed to be typed in real time within the span of a couple of minutes so that your scene partner(s) didn’t get horribly bored with you. I was having a great time, too, but now I’m wondering if it’s part of why I can rattle character dialog for Zombie Ranch off my keyboard with nary a hesitation. No secret method. Just practice, practice, practice.