The PRL Serials seems to change every week and Issue 7 does not disappoint. There’s just so much story that we all want to tell and next thing we know, Monday’s rolling around and everyone’s asking for five more minutes, or days. But that is the beauty of this format, it handles change well. Please be sure to check out the updated PRL Signatures section located in The Scroll. The archives will update tomorrow and also tomorrow, get ready for the completion of The Origins of Magic. Max has outdone everyone this week with the extra long, super-sized one-shot, so Wes decided to let the buzz die down to ensure that the ending to his crossover event wasn’t completely overshadowed. Check out the conclusion of the Super-Sized Old Man Young One-Shot in this issue and if you like it, be sure to follow Detective Young from his first appearance in Issue 5 of It Exists through to the current issue, the end of Issue 7, for the introduction to next week’s Old Man Young One-Shot. (I love the guy, but Max is such an overachiever).
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The man either has the best or the worst luck ever. Maybe when it seems that he has good luck, he is only being positioned for some tragedy that will eventually zap all of his happiness away. But at least he has a new mandate to be more human, you can never avoid tragedy, but you can make more good times in between the tragedies if you allow yourself to live a little.
It Exists Issue 7 (Amazing Elroy, The Magician Bk. 0): “‘You gotta get yourself out there,’ Randy said one morning at the diner and the man couldn’t really object. If he did fornicate, he knew that it wouldn’t be the worse thing he had ever done, and he asked Randy for advice. ‘I would take you out with me, but you need to go somewhere with a younger crowd. You ain’t into older women right?’ The man isn’t. ‘Well you can find your game at the shop, talk up the next pretty young thang that come in tomorrow.’”
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On Monday, we debuted PRL Mysteries with the first part of a flashback to the case that sealed Detective Paul Young’s reputation as one of the best detectives in Knoxville, TN. Today, its the exciting conclusion!
Old Man Young and the Bronx Avenger Super-Sized One-Shot Part 2: “[Young] kicked in the door with little effort, and Stevens swung her gun in at the darkness. The place was a mess and there on the couch was a dead man who looked to have been rotting for days…Though the dead man’s features were obscured by decay, it was obvious that he was not Jesus. He looked like an average white man, he was probably even Young’s age, and for a second, Young saw himself sitting there, hunched over and forgotten. ”
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I heard on NPR today that the state of Ohio has a voter suppression record as bad as any state in the south; so at least its good to know its not endemic. This week, Max shares his thoughts about voting laws and he shares a story about Ladoga politics to illustrate the point.
Selections from Rebel Max’s Journal (Vol. 1): The Importance of Voting/The First Three: “North Carolina was a Jim Crow state, until it wasn’t; and then, in order to change its voting laws, the state’s legislators were forced to take it up with the Justice Department, until they didn’t have to anymore. Many said this would lead to unfettered voter suppression; old people, minorities, and poor people would face problems when voting in elections because the rules would change and they would show up at the polls only to be disappointed and turned away. ”
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Emma’s next work of art, inspired by her disappointing conversation with Thomas, this week!
Emma (or The Artist) I (PRL Legacy Series): “Not immediately, because she wants very much to be blase about the ridiculousness of her meeting with Thomas, but eventually, Emma will set to work with a huge sheet of white paper that is bigger than her body. ”
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The PRL Cosmos and Heroes Crossover event of the summer, The Origins of Magic!, concludes this week!
The Origins of Magic (Part 3 of 3): Check back August 13, 2014 after 8pm for Part 3!
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Here’s that religion Stone Hand needed a couple of weeks ago.
Stone Hand (leaders and Leadership): “A man can lead you to his clarity/ but he can never make you drink/ a good man displays/ a good man does not entice”
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The PRL Serials! Changing things up like a chameleon, because that’s what we do.
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