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WEEK 120 / 337 — The Darkest Night
Vol. 2 ·  Chapter 12 — Very Fine People · Sep 26 – Oct 2, 2017
Manga panel 1 of 4, Week 120 “The Darkest Night”: After the third hurricane the island lies dark on a dark sea, its whole power grid dead, one generator-lit cluster glowing like an ember.
The electric power grid in Puerto Rico is totally shot. Large numbers of generators are now on Island. Food and water on site.
Manga panel 2 of 4, Week 120 “The Darkest Night”: The drowned city's mayor wades her streets begging for help, and the answer from the mainland arrives as a scolding about complaints.
Results of recovery efforts will speak much louder than complaints by San Juan Mayor. Doing everything we can to help great people of PR!
Manga panel 3 of 4, Week 120 “The Darkest Night”: Past the shadowed portraits of three predecessors he walks with fists balled: they all failed the hermit kingdom test, and he will not.
Being nice to Rocket Man hasn't worked in 25 years, why would it work now? Clinton failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I won't fail.
Manga panel 4 of 4, Week 120 “The Darkest Night”: On the week's last night, gunfire from a high hotel window turns a music festival into the worst massacre in modern American memory. Fifty-eight lights go out, and he stares hollow-eyed as a city of neon stands dim under candlelight.
My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you!
ON THE WEEK'S LAST NIGHT, FROM A HIGH HOTEL WINDOW ABOVE A MUSIC FESTIVAL, COMES THE WORST MASSACRE IN THE NATION'S MODERN MEMORY. FIFTY-EIGHT LIGHTS GO OUT. THE CHRONICLE LOWERS ITS VOICE.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

The darkest week of the autumn. The third hurricane leaves the island territory lightless on a dark sea, its mayor wading her drowned streets while the mainland's answer arrives as a scolding. In the palace corridor he passes the shadowed portraits of three predecessors and vows he will not fail the hermit kingdom test they all failed. And then the week's last night: gunfire from a high hotel window over a Las Vegas music festival, fifty-eight dead, a city of neon dimmed to candlelight. The chronicle lowers its voice.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 120. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…