Hi there, dear readers. The PRL Serials have been experiencing some technical difficulties and I want to apologize for the interruptions, especially given the point we find ourselves in the PRL Epic that has been steadily chugging to the end this summer. It’s fitting that we will wrap up in the fall, a season to cap off months of heat and vibrant growth, but of course I am speaking figuratively, the current state of the world has seemingly upended the natural feelings we are used to from the seasons. If you’ve been inside for the last six months, the changing of the season is insignificant. But I want to evoke those seasonal feelings as the world slowly tries to return to normal, for better or for worse, and really appreciate the changing of the season.
The summer was the thick of the pandemic and we thought about how it would impact the volume. The PRL Epic exists in a universe outside of ours, but we are a black owned and operated publication and we are not immune to the realities of our universe just because we cook up the most interesting universe on the internet. We are black men and we wrote Alia’s Quest for the Rainbow Road in an environment where a disease was ravaging the Black and Latino communities while the leader of our own country steadily denies its severity and does nothing to stop it. We wrote Wendy’s assault on the CZS in an environment where a black woman can be killed in her own home, the local government can admit some failure and award a million dollar settlement to the family, but the police officer that murdered her faces no punishment. We wrote Maria adventuring around the universe with her alien friends while the leader of our own country ground immigration of all kinds to a halt and completely invalidated the fallacy that there is a line immigrants can file into in order to immigrate legally.
We did it because we’ve been doing it and it’s fun for us to put our minds together and think of what could be, but we also did it because black and brown women are amazing and they deserve more than what the world gives them today. Alia’s Quest is to fundamentally alter existence as everyone knows it, and only she can do it, and she can decide not to. She’s the most powerful being in the PRL Universe and even if the Hyperion is just a myth, she will erase the Ascendant from the past, we learned that last volume. And that will have tremendous consequence because black and brown women are important to the proper function of the universe and they’re good at setting things right. It’s sad that they often sacrifice themselves for the betterment of others without reaping the rewards of their own sacrifice, but that’s the stuff of real heroes.
There’s two issues left. Alia is in heaven, and on the Rainbow Road, and nearing the end of her search for SoEl; she’s great at multitasking. Wendy and Old Man Young are leading the Ghost Force and they are determined to find answers. Maria and Whadgaf are fighting a war alongside the Fhet Kings. There’s so much happening, but this is the end. We hope you will join us. It will be well worth the wait.
And I should say that the new back-to-basics PRL without social media enhancements allows us to focus on the writing. All the other stuff can become clutter, but we’re always innovating so look for new and exciting things coming soon. The Halloween Special this year will be particularly good, I have a feeling, so be sure to stick around for that.
Stay safe, dear readers. And get ready.
PRL Serials 