It would hardly be a complete chapter without a full-color, single-panel page of Michiko being imagined dissolving into liquid.
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Staff meeting! Plus a shout-out for Nein Quarterly and its many fans. I think you can actually buy that mug somewhere. Eric, tell us where! I’m sure my readers want to fetishize your commodities…
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Corwin is right. Mad science, like anything else worthwhile in life, requires commitment.
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I hope Peter Straub can forgive us our obscure meta-fictional reference.
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She has some good sense, that Michiko.
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Somewhere in my notes there was once an indication of an unhappy past history between Aloysius and Michiko, and this is its survival into the main narrative.
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The friends gather at a dark site. Special kudos to those of you who recognize the lyric that Jireen is using as a passphrase.
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The dream goes in a pleasing direction for Buck.
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Buck’s dream draws on characters both from history and this narrative.
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One gets the sense that Buck isn’t that used to striking out.
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Where Am I?: Chapter Two, Page Twenty-Three written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)