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WEEK 037 / 073 Never Let Them See You Sweat
 Chapter 4The Primaries · Feb 23 – Feb 29, 2016
Manga panel 1 of 5, Week 37 “Never Let Them See You Sweat”: dark hotel suite high above a glittering desert city at night; imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw, face lit only by a glowing…
FEBRUARY 24, 2016. Past midnight the desert kingdom falls — his third victory in a row. Alone in the dark, the weapon glows.
(THANK YOU NEVADA! WE WILL MAKE AMERICA SAFE & GREAT AGAIN!)
Manga panel 2 of 5, Week 37 “Never Let Them See You Sweat”: a gaunt phantom of a silver-templed patrician in an immaculate suit rises from mist over an old lost battlefield strewn with torn banners across the lower half of the frame; the imposing older man…
Mitt Romney, who was one of the dumbest and worst candidates in the history of Republican politics, is now pushing me on tax returns. Dope!
Manga panel 3 of 5, Week 37 “Never Let Them See You Sweat”: all subject matter confined to one thin horizontal strip across the exact middle of the frame — a floodlit rally stage where a broad heavyset man in a dark suit bows his head deeply beside the…
FEBRUARY 26. THE HARD-EYED GOVERNOR OF THE NORTHERN SHORE IS FIRST TO BEND THE KNEE.
Thank you for your support & friendship- Governor @ChrisChristie!…
Never let them see you sweat!
Manga panel 4 of 5, Week 37 “Never Let Them See You Sweat”: a round-faced man with slick dark hair, hooded eyes, thin smile, courtroom bearing stands small in the lower half of the frame before a star-crowned capitol dome as the vast shadow of a…
Why would the people of Texas support Ted Cruz when he has accomplished absolutely nothing for them. He is another all talk, no action pol!
Manga panel 5 of 5, Week 37 “Never Let Them See You Sweat”: colossal football stadium at night packed with halftone masses under stadium lights like war beacons along the bottom and right; imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, strong…
FEBRUARY 28. Alabama. A football stadium fills to its rim. Two days remain until eleven states vote at once — the largest single battle of the war.
THANK YOU ALABAMA! 32,000 supporters tonight. Get out & VOTE on Tuesday! WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

Nevada falls at midnight — three kingdoms in a row — and the march becomes a rout. An old ghost of a lost war rises to demand his papers and is cut down with a single word; a former rival kneels on the rally stage; the duel is carried into the courtier's own homeland. On the last night, thirty-two thousand roar in an Alabama stadium as eleven states prepare to vote at once.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 037. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…