DONARUDO
WEEK 126 / 337 — Short and Fat
Vol. 2 ·  Chapter 13 — Rocket Man · Nov 7 – Nov 13, 2017
Manga panel 1 of 5, Week 126 “Short and Fat”: In Seoul's assembly hall, an hour's drive from the border, he delivers the warning: do not underestimate us, and do not try us.
“NoKo has interpreted America's past restraint as weakness. This would be a fatal miscalculation. Do not underestimate us. AND DO NOT TRY US.”
NOVEMBER 8. SEOUL — AN HOUR'S DRIVE FROM THE BORDER OF THE HERMIT KINGDOM.
Manga panel 2 of 5, Week 126 “Short and Fat”: The Forbidden City opens its gates: an emperor's welcome, staged for a guest who measures the whole world in welcomes.
NOVEMBER 9. THE EMPEROR OF THE EAST OPENS THE FORBIDDEN CITY TO HIM — A WELCOME NO FOREIGN GUEST HAS BEEN GIVEN IN GENERATIONS.
Manga panel 3 of 5, Week 126 “Short and Fat”: At the state banquet he raises his glass and absolves his host: he does not blame China — he blames the men who came before him.
(I don’t blame China, I blame the incompetence of past Admins…)
Manga panel 4 of 5, Week 126 “Short and Fat”: A handshake in a summit corridor: only haters and fools, he thinks, fail to see that friendship with the bear is a good thing.
(When will all the haters and fools out there realize…)
Manga panel 5 of 5, Week 126 “Short and Fat”: Midnight in Hanoi. Why would the young ruler across the sea call him old, when he would NEVER call him short and fat? He tries so hard to be his friend.
(Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me ""old,"" when I would NEVER call him ""short and fat?"" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!)
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

The long march through Asia. In Seoul he stands an hour from the hermit kingdom's border and warns: do not try us. In Beijing the Forbidden City itself opens for him — an emperor's welcome — and at the banquet he absolves his host of everything. A corridor handshake with the bear. Then, at midnight in Hanoi, the week's true duel: the young ruler across the sea has called him OLD, and the answer — that he would NEVER call him short and fat — crosses the world before dawn.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 126. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…