Zombie Cliche Lookout: Filling in the Blanks with Assumptions
Today’s cliche isn’t limited to zombie fiction, or even fiction in general. Rather, it is something that is as true in the real world as it is in fiction: making assumptions to fudge missing data has an extremely high chance of coming back to bite you in the ass later. There are, naturally, a lot of different ways to make assumptions, which can carry greater and lesser degrees of risk. Educated guesses, weighing the information you have on hand and making reasonable but conservative hypotheses will carry far less risk than just making up information out of whole cloth.
About this Episode:
These guys are definitely cagey. They’re giving very limited information, and spinning everything to sound bad. That can mean two things: they’re lying to push our guys to do what they want, or they’re legitimately dealing with some bad dudes.
Other News:
So I may have to take a short hiatus after this week. The stuff I use to shoot my comic hasn’t been available for a couple of weeks now because my daughter borrowed them for her girl scout cookie sales booths. So far it’s been fine because I had a solid buffer built up, but this is the last week of that buffer. I expect to get my stuff back on Saturday, which means there will be no delay. However, if something changes we may be taking a week off. So we’ll probably be fine, but if we’re not, I wanted to give everyone a head’s up.
Discussion Question: Who Are We Dealing With?
Building off the “About this Episode”, what do you guys think is going on here? Are these people legitimately afraid of this other group and looking for real help, or are they being manipulative for some nefarious reason? What makes you think this?
I’m of two minds on what this group is up to. First of all, they approach our current group after having learned all they can of them, yet they know little to nothing of this other group. Either someone messed up big on scouting and intel gathering or they’re lying through their teeth to conceal a much larger plan or problem they’re currently having.
I think Dave should write about 188 episodes on this group and what they’ve been doing in this comic to the point where they met our current group. That depends, however, on whether he gets his camera back! 😀
I hope Dave has a spare camera in case something goes horribly wrong, as can happen in both real life and fiction stories of all descriptions. 😉
Hah. I actually have my camera. I’m missing my table.
Latest word is I’m getting that back on Saturday afternoon, so we should be good to go for next week.
Just FYI, Dave, I am serious about wanting you to get to the 1,000th episode, and if you can find story elements to expand on that will push it in that direction, by all means please do so.
There is a lot I’d like to know about this other group, what say you wrote it worrying less about the zombie cliche angles and just told their story in a relatively natural way, like our other groups have developed their storylines from? 😀
Oh I know you are. I doubt we’re going to get there, but we’ve definitely got a bit more story to tell before we’re done. I have two more plot points I want to hit, with one new bigger character to introduce.
A bit more story to tell? I want you to be able to expand that to a lot more story to tell, no kidding! 😀 There’s a pretty big reason to expand on this group, and that is this: How is it we haven’t seen them in the comic before now? 😀