DONARUDO
WEEK 021 / 073 The Jester's Temple
 Chapter 3The Front-Runner · Nov 3 – Nov 9, 2015
Manga panel 1 of 5, Week 21 “The Jester's Temple”: Ultra-wide cinemascope band: winter dawn, a fortress-like golden tower rising on the left third of the frame with imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense…
The Front-Runner
CHAPTER 3 — THE FRONT-RUNNER. NOVEMBER 3, 2015. WINTER COMES TO THE KINGDOM, AND THE CROWN OF THE FRONT-RUNNER — HEAVY, HATED — IS HIS.
Wow! @FoxNews poll just came out. #1 with 26%! Almost as importantly, I am the strongest on economic issues by far! #Trump2016
Manga panel 2 of 5, Week 21 “The Jester's Temple”: Square panel: imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw, long dark suit, very long red necktie flowing like a battle banner…
With Ben Carson wanting to hit his mother on head with a hammer, stab a friend and Pyramids built for grain storage - don't people get it?
Manga panel 3 of 5, Week 21 “The Jester's Temple”: Square panel: held to the middle strip of the frame, backstage of a vast television temple where imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong…
NOVEMBER 7. THE CONQUEROR DOES THE UNTHINKABLE: HE WALKS INTO THE JESTER'S TEMPLE — AND COMMANDS IT.
I am at the Saturday Night Live Studio - electricity all over the place. We will be doing a ""tweeting"" skit, so stay tuned!
Manga panel 4 of 5, Week 21 “The Jester's Temple”: Square panel: low angle before a wall of glowing broadcast monitors spanning the middle strip of the frame, imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes…
Television ratings for @nbcsnl Saturday Night Live just came out and they were great - the best since 2011. Very few protesters!
Manga panel 5 of 5, Week 21 “The Jester's Temple”: Ultra-wide cinemascope band: dusk, imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw, long dark suit, very long red necktie flowing like a…
So sad that Obama rejected Keystone Pipeline. Thousands of jobs, good for the environment, no downside!
ONE MORE COUNT AGAINST THE OLD ORDER. HE RULES THE POLLS, THE STAGE, AND NOW THE LAUGHTER ITSELF — WHILE AN OCEAN AWAY, A CITY'S LAST QUIET WEEK RUNS OUT.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

Chapter 3 opens on a front-runner's winter: first in the Fox tally, DONARUDO dismantles the sleeping monk with the monk's own confessions — the hammer, the blade, the pyramids of grain. Then he does what no conqueror has dared: he enters the jester's temple, hosts the laughing rite, and the verdict returns the best ratings in four years. At week's end he files the old king's rejection of the great pipeline as one more count against a fading order.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 021. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…