DONARUDO
WEEK 016 / 583 Would You Ever Get Out?
Vol. 1 ·  Chapter 2 The Debate Stage · Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2015
Manga panel 1 of 5, Week 16 “Would You Ever Get Out?”: Ultra-wide cinemascope band: in a tower boardroom high above the city, a gaunt elderly financier bows his head in pledge before imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow…
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015. WHILE THE FOX HOUSE STANDS DARK TO HIM, A LORD OF THE MARKETS CLIMBS THE TOWER AND PLEDGES HIS BANNER.
Carl Icahn said this about me: ""I think at this moment in time, he’s the only candidate that speaks out about the country’s problems.""
Manga panel 2 of 5, Week 16 “Would You Ever Get Out?”: Square panel: boyish clean-cut man, short dark hair, earnest large eyes, quick light movements staggering backward in the lower two-thirds of the frame under a diagonal slash of speed lines, his…
I watched lightweight Senator Marco Rubio, who is all talk and no action, defend his WEAK position on illegal immigration. Pathetic!
Manga panel 3 of 5, Week 16 “Would You Ever Get Out?”: Square panel: held to the middle strip of the frame, rain over a small-town vigil at night, candle flames guarded by cupped hands, halftone mourners bowed in darkness, and apart from them a heavy…
My warmest condolences to the families of the horrible Roseburg, Oregon, shootings.
Manga panel 4 of 5, Week 16 “Would You Ever Get Out?”: Square panel: a crowd of featureless figures with camera lenses for faces and a microphone thicket encircling imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense…
I'm leading by big margins in every poll
Manga panel 5 of 5, Week 16 “Would You Ever Get Out?”: Ultra-wide cinemascope band: close-up of thumbs over a glowing phone screen on the right half of the frame, its light carving a heavy jowled face and sweeping golden pompadour out of the black, city…
OCTOBER 5, PAST MIDNIGHT. THEY ASK WHEN HE WILL QUIT. HE ANSWERS BY PLANNING FURTHER AHEAD THAN ANY OF THEM — TOWARD THE SLEEPING MONK CLIMBING THE POLLS.
(For all of my fantastic supporters, and for the U.S.A., we are going to win and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, maybe greater than ever before!)
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

The chorus tries a new weapon — doubt itself — asking not whether he can win but when he will quit. He answers on every front at once: a lord of the markets pledges his banner in the tower, the young duelist Maruko is cut down again as all talk and no action, and the fallen of Roseburg are mourned in a single quiet frame. Past midnight the creed returns like a war chant — win, and make the realm greater than ever before.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 016. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…