DONARUDO
WEEK 441 / 583 Giving Thanks
Vol. 7 ·  Chapter 47 The Ballot · Nov 21 – Nov 27, 2023
Manga panel 1 of 4, Week 441 “Giving Thanks”: A lone dark bird crosses the vast white sky over a frozen field; below, phone in hand, the slow smirk: his image for the falling rival.
IN IOWA, A GOVERNOR'S ENDORSEMENT BUYS THE RIVAL NOTHING. THE DEFENDANT CHOOSES THE IMAGE HIMSELF.
Kim Reynolds of Iowa has gone from a popular Governor to the MOST UNPOPULAR GOVERNOR IN THE UNITED STATES, not an easy feat. Her Endorsement of Ron DeSanctimonious, who is 50 Points down to me in the Polls, has given him exactly ZERO “Bounce.” He is a wounded bird falling violently from the sky
Manga panel 2 of 4, Week 441 “Giving Thanks”: Two in the morning on Thanksgiving, alone at a table laid for no one: the holiday greeting goes out with every enemy on it, named with a carver's care.
(Happy Thanksgiving to ALL, including the Racist & Incompetent Attorney General of New York State, Letitia “Peekaboo” James,)
Manga panel 3 of 4, Week 441 “Giving Thanks”: Thanksgiving morning in an empty corridor, eyes shadowed: the sarcasm burns off and what is left sounds almost like the beginning.
BY MORNING THE OLD WAR-CRY FROM THE ESCALATOR RETURNS — AS A LAMENT.
Our Country is in serious trouble. We don’t have VICTORIES anymore!
Manga panel 4 of 4, Week 441 “Giving Thanks”: Saturday night in the rival kingdom: a packed South Carolina stadium roars for the invader.
SATURDAY: THE RIVAL KINGDOM OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THE STADIUM ROARS FOR THE INVADER.
THANK YOU, SOUTH CAROLINA!
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

Thanksgiving week, and the saga's holidays are never truces. First the rival: an Iowa governor's endorsement buys the challenger nothing, and the chronicle records the image the defendant chooses for him — a wounded bird falling violently from the sky. Then, at three minutes past two on Thanksgiving morning, the most infamous holiday greeting of the winter: thanks given to ALL, including the racist attorney general, the psycho judge, and every last enemy on the list, each named with a carver's care. By morning the sarcasm has burned off and what is left sounds almost like the beginning: our country is in serious trouble — we don't have victories anymore. The week ends in a stadium in the rival kingdom of South Carolina, where the crowd at a college football game roars for the invader, and the grin comes back.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 441. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

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