Here we see more scheming from Cardinal Milikin, with his usual cronies: Malukai and Kidjo (the man with beady eyes).

And who do we have in the folder? It looks like the bandit leader from the original Temple series to me….

More to come next Monday!

Xen makes another appearance (without actually appearing) over the walkie talkie. It seems his lucrative gun trade is making a comeback (since he lost his guns and his operation at the end of Hikari). Obviously he’s doing all of this work outside of the Order, since they only use old revolvers and rifles.

This story wraps up in the next few pages, and then I have some announcements to make. Some of them will be good, and others may disappoint some readers. But I assure you that it’s all for the best.

Enjoy the rest of your week, and be sure to stop in for @$$hole! on Wednesday and Friday!

Sorry for not updating the page last week, but I’ve been slowly trying to recover from ACEN (such a great weekend, but lots to do around the apartment). But there should be more reviews and blogs coming soon, as well as a bunch more pages!

The bad news is that I find myself back in the job pool, hunting for work and finding an agency where my skills and experience can be utilized to their fullest. Unfortunately I can’t get into further details on this (and those who know me know that I love to rant), but for now I try to see this as a blessing in disguise. Namely, because I may have time to start reviewing movies and games again.

The good news is that I went out and bought a new laptop. Since the computer that I had been using was a work laptop (and a Mac at that, which kept crashing any Microsoft programs that I had to run every day), upon trying to turn on my old personal laptop I came to the conclusion that it was just too old and too slow for the purposes that I needed it.

The new device is father sleek, fast, and efficient. In fact, it’s technically better than my desktop computer – which is 7+ years old and I never sign it on the internet anymore. Mostly because if I ever did, it would shut down and never work again. There’s just not enough space on it for any more Windows updates, and since it’s not going online it doesn’t really need any updates.

So last week Friday another @$$hole! uploaded, continuing the adventure of Carl trying to stop the evil Michael Eisner. And today a new Temple story went live, where we see Seymour (who we know is not a fighter) getting into a scrape with some Bishops in the Capital City market streets.

This week I’m prepping for C2E2, and I’ll talk a bit more later this week about my convention exclusive print (to promote my story in the upcoming Reading with Pictures anthology), as well as my signings and panel schedule. Then next month I’ll be a guest of honor at ACEN, which is one of the most fun shows that I go to every year! Gonna be a blast!

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We’re back to that first page, and Marielle has Seymour in her sights. What will she decide?

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Anime Milwaukee was a blast. I’m totally exhausted, but had a fun time hanging out with Alan at the table and being on panels and meeting all the cool people who attended. I’ll do a con report for Tuesday’s update to let everyone know how it went.

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So it looks like Kidjo was delayed on his way to take out Portis, which is why Sophia and Selphi got there first (see Hikari). And since Marielle and Kidjo have met in person, this explains why she was able to recognize him in the original story.

See, no plot holes here.

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Kidjo (the man with beady eyes) appears to be Marielle’s employer. And we know who he works for (hint: Cardinal Milikin). So if we didn’t already know, Milikin’s knocking off the other Cardinal’s and assuming power for himself.

This is all old info, if you’ve been following since the beginning. However, some new things may come to light in the following pages….

…plus, we’re learning new things about the Tojin people. So bonus.