[[A courtroom scene. A man, BLATHERTON, addresses a jury while gesturing toward a bearded man, GRIMWALD, who sits at a table. Maybe the witness stand? Not entirely clear.]]
BLATHERTON: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury!
BLATHERTON: I would like to LIST the acts this man has FREELY ADMITTED TO!!
BLATHERTON: FACT! This man lured people into his LAIR. FACT! The victims were DRUGGED, rendering them unable to defend themselves.
BLATHERTON: FACT! This man then SLASHED open the victims' bodies with a razor-sharp knife. FACT! His hands DRIPPING with the victims' blood, he literally CUT OUT THEIR HEARTS while they were STILL ALIVE.
BLATHERTON: But this sick ritual was not over! FACT! This man then REPLACED his victims' hearts with ones TAKEN FROM CORPSES!!
BLATHERTON: Sometimes his victims DIED from the trauma! Other times they regained consciousness with NO MEMORY of the gruesome procedure, and managed to escape -- with THE HEART OF A DEAD STRANGER TRAPPED IN THEIR BODY!
BLATHERTON: And he was PAID by OBAMACARE to do it!!
GRIMWALD: I feel it must be mentioned that I am, in fact, a heart surgeon
BLATHERTON: YOU don't get to decide what I find deplorable!!
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If he had EATEN the hearts, I could at least understand the hunter's mindset -- but he THREW THEM AWAY like it was so much SPORT!!
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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