![]() And he's undead, which means he "don't get tired, don't eat much, and don't rile the herd the way a regular horse will." Cool Horse: Popcorn may not have the most badass of names, but he's been a loyal steed to Suzie since she was a little girl.Black Comedy: A lot of the comic revolves around this, from the all-in-day's-work attitudes of people wrangling former human beings for profit to the overly cheery media presentations.Particularly fun is when she basically says "fuck my life". Rosa, being a native Spanish speaker, also has a few other Spanish phrases sprinkled into her dialogue. Suzie's mistrust for Rosa is doubly compounded when you know that Rosa just gave a potential business partner an obviously false name calculated specifically to inspire trust. ![]() Bilingual Bonus: "Rosa Amarilla" is Spanish for "yellow rose", which is in turn a symbol for friendship.Art Shift: The comic occasionally switches between a more realistic style showing actual happenings on the ranch (and beyond), and a cartoony style representing the media ads and inserts for the TV show.It's promised that everything in that section should sooner or later be brought to light in the actual comic, which has been slowly happening, but some details remain unrevealed as yet. All There in the Manual: A World FAQ on the site explains a lot about the background setting.Zombie ranching is about the most dangerous job there is, but for Suzie and her compadres, it's just a day in the (un)life. The Zanes lost their livestock to the teeth of zombies, but found a replacement herd in those same undead hordes and adapted their techniques and know-how to strange new times. Several remote controlled camera drones have been deployed to a Wild Zone ranch owned by Susannah Zane, the latest in a long line of Texas cattle ranchers. In this world the existence of zombies is not only accepted fact, but a huge new industry has grown up that is based around harvesting and processing them for profit. Set about twenty years after the declared end of "The Wars", Zombie Ranch is the title of a reality show concept being filmed by the powerful ClearStream Corporation, which is looking for new entertainment fodder to broadcast to its Safe Zone populace. ![]() the aftermath left pockets of walled-off, technologically advanced Safe Zones with occasional oversight from the weakened Federal government, but much of the country remains a Wild Zone where law and order is scarce and the surviving denizens eke out their living with a frontier mentality reminiscent of their pioneer ancestors. Humankind adjusted themselves to the disaster, fighting back against the undead menace until the immediate threat was over and an uneasy equilibrium was achieved. Sometime in the 21st century, the Great Zombie Plague wiped out a fair portion of civilization as we know it. Having its start in the Fall of 2009, the story is a twist on the usual elements of the zombie genre, heavily influenced by Science Fiction, westerns and "dangerous job" reality television. Zombie Ranch is a weekly webcomic produced by the husband and wife team of writer Clint Wolf and artist Dawn Wolf. Uncover secrets surrounding the apocalypse and prepare your colony for survival if it should happen again.- Opening lines of the Zombie Ranch Theme Song ◾Discover the Truth: Specialists will stumble upon mysteries while exploring the world. The colony’s fate depends on your judgement, every choice can impact your colony’s happiness and affect its future. ◾Make Tough Choices: Surviving the post-apocalypse means making impossible decisions. Specialists can set up outposts and gather materials, giving your colony an edge. Meet rival colony leaders and trade resources or compete for survival. ![]() ◾Explore a Procedurally Generated World: Send your specialists outside your colony and into a procedurally generated world. Outfit your specialists with gear to defend the colony from attacking bandits and rampaging wildlife. ◾Recruit and Manage Specialists: Recruit over 80 unique specialists, each with their own skills and motivations, to manage your colony’s resources. Stay prepared, a natural disaster or environmental catastrophe can doom an ill-equipped settlement. Construct more than 130 buildings and survive a harsh world filled with danger. ◾Build and Manage a Colony: Build and manage a colony of survivors after a world-ending event. Go beyond the colony and explore the wastelands to gather resources, meet rival colonies, and uncover the world’s secrets. Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future - resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
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