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WEEK 047 / 583 — The Field Stands Empty
Vol. 1 ·  Chapter 4 — The Primaries · May 3 – May 9, 2016
Manga panel 1 of 5, Week 47 “The Field Stands Empty”: ultra-wide facing podiums compressed into the right two-thirds of the frame, speed lines converging; round-faced man with slick dark hair, hooded eyes, thin smile cracked, grips a splintering podium…
MAY 3, 2016. INDIANA — THE COURTIER-SCHEMER'S LAST WALL. UNDER SIEGE, IT BEGINS TO CRACK.
Wow, Lyin' Ted Cruz really went wacko today. Made all sorts of crazy charges. Can't function under pressure - not very presidential. Sad!
Lyin' Ted Cruz consistently said that he will, and must, win Indiana. If he doesn't he should drop out of the race-stop wasting time…
Manga panel 2 of 5, Week 47 “The Field Stands Empty”: shot from behind and below, an imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane haloed in stage light, seen entirely from the back so his face is hidden, long dark suit, very long red…
“Thank you Indiana, we were just projected…”
Manga panel 3 of 5, Week 47 “The Field Stands Empty”: a round-faced man with slick dark hair and hooded eyes walks alone into darkness away from a shattered podium across the lower half of the square frame, shoulders bowed, his long shadow stretching…
THAT NIGHT THE COURTIER-SCHEMER LOWERS HIS BANNER. SIXTEEN RIVALS HAVE FALLEN. THE FIELD STANDS EMPTY.
Manga panel 4 of 5, Week 47 “The Field Stands Empty”: vast marble party hall, rows of shadowed elder figures look down from high benches along the top of the square frame; alone at the center, imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane…
“Paul Ryan said that I inherited something very special, the Republican Party. Wrong, I didn't inherit it, I won it with millions of voters!”
Manga panel 5 of 5, Week 47 “The Field Stands Empty”: ultra-wide summit of a fortress-like tower: at the right half of the frame an imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw grins over a…
“Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!”
THE CONQUEROR DINES ALONE ABOVE AN EMPTY BATTLEFIELD. THE CROWN IS WON — BUT THE PARTY HE BROKE MUST STILL BE MADE TO KNEEL.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

The chronicle records the fall of Indiana, the last wall: the courtier-schemer cracks under siege by daylight and lowers his banner by nightfall, leaving all sixteen rivals defeated and the field empty. Yet the war does not end cleanly — a party elder calls the conquered banner an inheritance and is corrected like a squire, and the victor marks his triumph with the strangest feast in the saga, dining alone over a single bowl at the summit of his tower.

Readers' Corner

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