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WEEK 005 / 583 — The First Obituary
Vol. 1 ·  Chapter 1 — The Descent · Jul 14 – Jul 20, 2015
Manga panel 1 of 5, Week 5 “The First Obituary”: imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw, long dark suit, very long red necktie flowing like a battle banner stands at a summit…
JULY 18TH, 2015. AMES, IOWA. BEFORE THE FAITHFUL OF THE SUMMIT, HE SAYS THE UNSAYABLE — THEN HOLDS THE HEADLINE HIGH.
Via @fitsnews: “Donald Trump: John McCain Is ‘A Loser’”
Manga panel 2 of 5, Week 5 “The First Obituary”: crowd of featureless figures with camera lenses for faces, microphone thicket, flash bursts erupting like gunfire, all converging across the middle strip of the square frame on a lone unbowed…
“Captured or not, all our soldiers are heroes!”
Manga panel 3 of 5, Week 5 “The First Obituary”: four soldiers' helmets resting on upright rifles beneath a half-lowered flag in the lower half of the square frame, an imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane and long dark suit…
“MILITARY LIVES MATTER! END GUN FREE ZONES!…”
Manga panel 4 of 5, Week 5 “The First Obituary”: extreme close-up of thumbs hovering over a glowing phone screen in the upper half of the square frame in a dark tower bedroom, the screen's light carving a heavy-browed jowled face out of blackness…
(Wow, @SharylAttkisson just wrote the definitive piece on what I said about John McCain)
Manga panel 5 of 5, Week 5 “The First Obituary”: imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw, long dark suit, very long red necktie flowing like a battle banner, standing on the right…
This story is no longer about John McCain, it’s about our horribly treated vets. Illegals are treated better than our wonderful veterans.
THE OBITUARIES ARE WRITTEN. THE BODY REFUSES TO LIE DOWN.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

In Iowa he speaks of the war hero as no candidate has dared, and the chorus of lenses declares the campaign dead within the hour. He does not retreat; he turns the fire toward the four Marines slain in Chattanooga and the veterans left to rot on waiting lists. By week's end the story he commands is no longer about one senator — it is about the forgotten soldiers, and the man the obituaries could not bury.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 005. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…