Is the standard zombie tale getting rotten for you? Then you might try shambling on out for a look at the Zombie Ranch. A webcomic published since 2009 by the husband and wife team of writer Clint Wolf and artist Dawn Wolf, Zombie Ranch tells the story of Susannah Zane, proud scion of a long line of Texas cattle ranchers. Alas for the Zane family, their bulls and cows came down with a bad case of being eaten alive during the Great Zombie Plague, but humanity itself pulled through the apocalypse. Not only that, they founded a whole new industry based around wrangling the living dead for profit!
A generation later, the United States is divided between high-tech Safe Zones and the Wild Zones where zombies and outlaws still roam free, and a powerful broadcast corporation has arranged to make a television show out of “the most dangerous job in America”. Suzie and her crew of working class ranchers live every day in the shadow of death, but people still have to make a living, and these brave souls do so with one foot squarely in the grave.
For the first time ever, Dawn and Clint are hoping to collect the beginning seven chapters of this tale into a handsome trade paperback volume — and you can help! The Zombie Ranch Kickstarter is currently live and accepting pledges at: www.kickstarter.com
Zombie Ranch is also available for your reading pleasure at www.zombieranchcomic.com
