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WEEK 188 / 337 — The Shutdown
Vol. 3 ·  Chapter 18 — The Shutdown · Jan 15 – Jan 21, 2019
Manga panel 1 of 4, Week 188 “The Shutdown”: The siege bites hard now. He turns the pain outward, demanding why the enemy's leader still draws her pay while workers go without.
THE SIEGE BITES. THE UNPAID WAIT IN THE COLD, AND THE KING SHARPENS THE PAIN INTO A WEAPON.
“Why is Nancy Pelosi getting paid when people who are working are not?”
Manga panel 2 of 4, Week 188 “The Shutdown”: He marshals the world as his witness: scores of nations, he says, have built their own walls and found them almost perfectly effective.
There are now 77 major or significant Walls built around the world, with 45 countries planning or building Walls. Over 800 miles of Walls have been…
Manga panel 3 of 4, Week 188 “The Shutdown”: With the kitchens shuttered by the shutdown he feasts his champions on mountains of fast food, paid from his own purse.
Great being with the National Champion Clemson Tigers last night at the White House. Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts of Fast…
Manga panel 4 of 4, Week 188 “The Shutdown”: And when a false story breaks against him he rounds on the press once more with the old brand: enemy of the people.
“Fake News is truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”
THE STANDOFF HARDENS INTO STONE. NEITHER KING NOR CAPTAIN WILL BEND — BUT A WAY OUT MUST COME.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

The siege bites hard now, and he turns the pain outward — why, he demands, does the enemy's leader still draw her pay while workers go without? He marshals the world as his witness, counting the scores of nations that built their own walls, and with the kitchens shuttered he feasts his champions on mountains of fast food from his own purse. And when a false story breaks against him he rounds on the press once more with the old brand: enemy of the people.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 188. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…