It seems Twitter now expects you to have an account, or log in with some other account you have, to even look at it. Which means that's it for me reading those 8 or 9 people I would check on a couple of times a day. Probably for the best.
There were only two books left over from June for me, and they arrived Friday, so let's get to those.
Turns out Neal did survive the poisoning, but may never be pretty enough to appear on TV again. The tox report says he ingested Deadly Nightshade. So Shauna has some sort of clue, but has also attracted the ire of Maisie. Who fortunately only suspects her of trying to sabotage the others in a show of gamesmanship, not attempted murder, and fails to gain any adherents to her theory. I especially like that Will thinks he knows what's going on because he sees the patterns of contestants on baking shows. Careful Will, I've been led astray by the tropes more than once in trying to solve mysteries!
On to the baking. Today's challenge is to represent your favorite movie in a cake. Assuming I could bake, how would I do that for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? Three flavors, each which combine nicely with one of the others, but are explosive when used as a trio. Shauna has another horrible experience with the soul-draining harpy of a judge, in a 9-panel page where a black ooze slowly drips over the panels as you progress down the page, and the color gradually shifts to all purple and black. Poor girl, she's never going to survive long enough to solve this.
Or maybe she will, because Titus eats some stuff at his station that turns out to be Deadly Nightshade. That's two attempted murders, but no one has died yet, so Shauna's still doing better than DCI Barnaby on Midsomer Murders.
The Reverend whose church was attacked by Razorfist starts a crusade to have production of self-aware automatons banned, and all existing self-aware automatons murdered. Sorry, I mean destroyed. With the United States caving to the whims of Christian dipshits (as usual), Ranger ONE's in a bad spot. he returns to his creator for repairs, she sends him away as a threat to her and her family. Nahuel starts the argument with panels that are close up on her face and distant from Ranger ONE, then flips that when she sends him away.
Even on the run for his life, ONE won't kill the men pursuing him. The reverend dances around the possible significance of this, vis-a-vis the automatons not being a monolithic block, but ultimately skitters away, worldview still firmly in place. Meanwhile, the daughter of ONE's creator has lung cancer and desperate to save her, she puts her daughter's consciousness in a little automaton, which she asked ONE to protect last issue. Which he, entirely reasonably in my opinion, refused.
Which brings us to the present, where mother and daughter are attacked by an automaton bandit called La Tortuga, who shoots her and kidnaps the girl to disassemble. I think. His dialogue is in Spanish and I that's basically what Google Translate gave me. Although it keeps insisting La Tortuga is referring to her as a boy, so I don't know if that's intentional or a pronoun goof on someone's part.
Fuentes established the girl hasn't spoken or made any sound since her mind was transferred, but her mother's death gets her screaming. That's enough to get ONE to act, and that's where it leaves off. Mangual keeps the scream running across the top of the panels for the last five pages, growing in size as ONE gets closer, shrinking as he falls further behind.
So two pages in, we have most of the backstory, a sense of the enemies ONE's got, plus the additional problem of this little kid. It feels like a lot for 4 remaining issues, given the pace so far, but a couple of the problems' resolutions will probably tie together (stopping Razorfist helping the reverend's heart grow three sizes or something to that effect.)
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