Issue 8 is here! and this week, the PRL Serials are In the News. All of your favorite PRL Signatures are ripped from the headlines, so to speak. That means that the news stories of today are on display in It Exists, the Old Man Young One-Shot, Stone Hand, and Emma (or The Artist). It’s hard to listen to the news and not have a response to it, especially when things hit so close to home. Wes, Max, and myself are all black men and the issue of racial profiling is not foreign to us. Also, as writers, our hearts and prayers go out to the family of James Foley who died like a man in the line of duty. We live in a very hectic time and there is devastation everywhere; Ebola in Africa, gang violence in Central America, unrest in the Middle East. Though we hope the PRL Serials can be a pleasant escape from harsh realities, we decided that we can’t ignore our opinions and reactions. So enjoy and look for another post tomorrow that will detail the schedule of Volume I’s last four issues. Stay safe and keep on reading.
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This week:
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The man is drawn to drama, there is no escaping it. What will he do for his boss and friend, Randy? Will it go the way of the gas station explosion?
It Exists Issue 8 (Amazing Elroy, The Magician Bk. 0): “The man thinks about being handcuffed to his hospital bed and he thinks that it was definitely an excessive measure considering that the detective admitted more than once that he was sure the man wasn’t the cause of the accident. As much as the man had lived his life free of the racism commonly associated with the south, it did not mean that racism didn’t exist. ”
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Detective Paul Young is eyeing a new case that his new friend, Sandra (from It Exists), might be able to help him with. He just has to convince her to work with the police.
Old Man Young and the Bronx Avenger One-Shots – The Setup: “Sandra wants to trust Young. He is right that drugs had stolen the youth of her son and many other black boys just like him in small towns and big cities all across the country. But working with the police doesn’t seem like the best way to help them, not when it was the police who seemed to be the worst enemy of all those black boys. ”
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Max paints a pictures of unity in Ladoga this week. There’s some sports history, a winter festival, and a lot of dancing.
Selections from Rebel Max’s Journal (Vol. 1): On Dancing: “It happens at various times throughout the year that the city’s East and West Sides throw aside petty division in order to unite as Ladogans.”
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Emma meets some artists and we all learn that even though Emma’s world is a little warped, the politics of that world are very much true to our reality.
Emma (or The Artist) I (PRL Legacy Series): “Mahmoud told Annie and Emma about his cousins who died while protesting in 2012. ‘I can’t do much to help them, but hopefully I can shine a spotlight bright enough to make Americans care and support the uprising.’”
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Wes’s song stories are back! This week, the introduction that will leave you scratching your head.
Superman Lover Intro: “…I gave Valeria the nickname Superman Lover. Not Superwoman, because it’s too many syllables, Valeria is my Superman.”
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Is Stone Hand becoming the man we all knew that he could be? Seeing devastation can do that to a man.
Stone Hand (leaders and Leadership): “The man-boy will embrace leader/ When he sees senselessness/ With innocence as victim”
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The PRL Serials! 360 like Anderson Cooper.
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