The conversation about books continues into a new scene. KYLEEN now meets up with ANEKKE. They are both wearing stunning dresses.
KYLEEN: Anneke! You're back from afar! How were things in the No-No Zones?
ANNEKE: We usually prefer to say NETHERLANDS
A: But, good! And you'll NEVER GUESS what I discovered in a little bookshop in Utrecht... There's a WHOLE OTHER SPINOFF SERIES of FATHOMS that was never released here!
Anneke displays a wagon full of books, one of which Kyleen peers at curiously.
A: LOOK at all these! Remember the AUDITOR characters from Sunk Cost Adventures? The DUTCH books follow THEM as they investigate OTHER underwater financial crimes!
K (reading): "Boek #32 van de Sunk Cost Chronicles"
Anneke produces a long, scroll-like sheet of paper.
A: There are some very exciting-sounding titles. I translated the list...
A: Sunk Cost Avenger... Sunk Cost Voyager... Sunk Cost Insider... THAT one's about a mole within the agency.
K: The underwater financial auditing agency.
A: They do more than just AUDITING. They also do BOOKKEEPING. Hence the subtitle, "Ook Boekhouders"
K (harping on a point which seems to be inescapable in this series): So are they any good?
A: What does GOOD mean? Is ANYTHING good?
K: I feel like my question MIGHT have been simple to answer with a "yes"
K: And so since it WASN'T
K: The answer isn't "yes"
It's not like I haven't already switched my Duolingo to Dutch. I just want to know what I'm in for, y'know?
This story began with Part 1.
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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