Invitation

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Zombie Roomie

I've wanted to change George's hair for a long time, but there was continuity reasons I couldn't... but there has been a little time skip and we're outside of the previous stories that were taking place in a short period of time, so now I can. It's a modified version of the hairdo he had for most of ZR's history... just less bangs in his face. I've edited it some in the next couple of comics he's in, as I wasn't 100% with it in this strip, but there's a lot of what I wanted in this and it was a good starting point.

But this is the start of a forty-ish strip long arc. It focuses on George and Zoey plus John and Lyn. We have this strip, then we go to a John and Lyn, then there's a combined, then we're back on alternating stories.

The theme for both of the plots was meeting the partner's families so if I were to have one take place and then another later it'd feel like I was treading the same ground... but if I acknowledge that and play them off of each other-- which is the plan, I figured as a whole it worked. I have the whole arc written out in full scripts, unlike what I used to do for stories where it'd be just an outline and I'd try to make a joke on the day.

New site!

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Zombie Roomie

I’ve spent hundreds of hours in November to make a new home for Zombie Roomie.

You’re on the newest, probably fastest version of the site to date. I’m not putting actual ads on the site and trying to keep the site as minimal as possible, but still have the stuff that I enjoy on a website.

I’m still fixing lots of issues like how the chapters and characters pages are pretty much useless– the chapters are in a random order and since I didn’t have thumbnails created for them it’s a bunch of blank squares. The characters are only slightly more useable… they at least give a link to the comics said character are in.

Starting with the reboot comics, strips are now 2000px across (if your resolution permits). If you’re on a smaller monitor or you only use part of one– I frequently do for things on a second monitor so I get it… it’ll scale to the width. If you’re using a really, really small resolution it’ll default to the mobile browser settings.

Oh, mobile browser you ask? Yes, with the reboot and going forward currently, the strips are cut into single panels so you can use mobile browsing for vertical scroll reading.

The legacy comics will be getting the vertical scroll and larger desktop reading treatment, but it takes me between five and ten minutes per comic on average to do the preparation for that… and there are 1562 comics in the archive, including some from ‘Woody After Hours’— I won’t be able to give the ‘Woody After Hours’ strips the same treatment as I don’t have access to high res versions of their strips.

I’m working with a M/W/F update schedule going forward.