DONARUDO
WEEK 045 / 073 Mathematically Eliminated
 Chapter 4The Primaries · Apr 19 – Apr 25, 2016
Manga panel 1 of 4, Week 45 “Mathematically Eliminated”: night-lit tower lobby, golden escalator gleaming as a diagonal on the right half of the frame, confetti drifting down; imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, strong…
APRIL 19, 2016. THE FIVE BOROUGHS SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE. THE SON OF QUEENS TAKES HIS HOMELAND IN A LANDSLIDE.
Thank you New York! I love you!#MakeAmericaGreatAgain #Trump2016
Manga panel 2 of 4, Week 45 “Mathematically Eliminated”: Black and white manga panel: an imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane seen entirely from behind along the bottom edge of the frame, shoulders and head silhouetted small at bottom…
Ted Cruz is mathematically out of winning the race. Now all he can do is be a spoiler…
Senator Ted Cruz has been MATHEMATICALLY ELIMINATED from race. He said Kasich should get out for same reason. I think both should get out!
Manga panel 3 of 4, Week 45 “Mathematically Eliminated”: Wide night interior: extreme close-up of thumbs over a glowing phone screen in a pitch-dark tower bedroom on the left half of the frame, the glow carving a heavy brow and small intense eyes out of…
NIGHT, APRIL 24.
(Wow, just announced that Lyin' Ted and Kasich are going to collude…)
Manga panel 4 of 4, Week 45 “Mathematically Eliminated”: Ultra-wide cinemascope shot through a rain-streaked train window: rusted factory hulks, dead smokestacks and broken fences slide past along the bottom and right of the frame under a gray sky…
Passing what was once a vibrant manufacturing area in Pennsylvania. So sad! #MakeAmericaGreatAgain
TWO DEAD MEN HAVE JOINED HANDS TO STOP HIM. IN ONE NIGHT, FIVE NORTHEASTERN STATES WILL GIVE THEIR ANSWER.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

The chronicle records the homecoming landslide: New York falls to its own son, and by morning the arithmetic of the war turns absolute — the courtier-schemer is declared mathematically eliminated, and the protagonist's eyes lift past him toward the final general. Then, in the dark of April 24, the two beaten survivors join hands in a pact of desperation, while from a Pennsylvania train window the rusted reason for the whole war slides past in silence.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 045. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…