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WEEK 038 / 583 The Map Catches Fire
Vol. 1 ·  Chapter 4 The Primaries · Mar 1 – Mar 7, 2016
Manga panel 1 of 5, Week 38 “The Map Catches Fire”: Ultra-wide cinemascope election-night hall: a towering wall map of the nation with states igniting one by one in white flame filling the right half of the frame; imposing older man with a sweeping…
MARCH 1, 2016. SUPER TUESDAY. Eleven states vote in a single night — the largest battle of the war. One by one, the map begins to burn.
Thank you Georgia!#SuperTuesday #Trump2016
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Manga panel 2 of 5, Week 38 “The Map Catches Fire”: everything compacted small into the lower right quarter of the frame — a silver-haired patrician elder thundering from a tiny university lectern, a thin line of featureless figures with camera…
Failed Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney is having a news conference tomorrow to criticize me. (1/2)
Manga panel 3 of 5, Week 38 “The Map Catches Fire”: cold dawn light in a tower office high above the city; extreme close-up across the middle strip of the frame of heavy thumbs over a glowing phone screen reflected in small intense eyes under a heavy…
Why did Mitt Romney BEG me for my endorsement four years ago?
Manga panel 4 of 5, Week 38 “The Map Catches Fire”: a serene older man with half-closed eyes, gentle stillness, surgeon's calm walks away down a long empty corridor in the lower half of the frame; behind him at the lower right the imposing older man…
Will miss @RealBenCarson tonight at the #GOPDebate. I hope all of Ben's followers will join the #TrumpTrain. We will never forget.
Manga panel 5 of 5, Week 38 “The Map Catches Fire”: Ultra-wide cinemascope night rally: halftone masses stretching beyond the stage lights along the bottom edge; imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, long red necktie snapping in…
The elders have declared war on their own champion. And far to the north, in Chicago, a different kind of enemy is massing outside the hall.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

Super Tuesday: eleven states vote in one night, and the map burns in his favor — Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia and more fall under a single colossal cry. But as he wins, the party's old guard finally moves in the open: a twice-defeated general rides out to denounce him, and is answered with a dagger drawn from history. Quietly, at the week's edge, the sleeping monk withdraws from the field in peace.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 038. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…