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May 26, 2008

Templar: Woah. TMI.

Gotta love Jackie's indifference to her brothers, ah, business.

Anyway, let's review.

The Jakeskin, or Jakes, are apocalyptic, survivalist, tactical breeders. They believe civilization is on the fast track to collapse, and do what they can, criminally speaking, to help it down that path. They're also big believers in prophecy and possession, and seem to think both can be induced in some of their members given the right atmosphere and mason jars filled with suspicious liquids. Gene seems to be one of those special people, but whatever spiritual squatter he attracts isn't really obligated to tell anyone who didn't directly provide his genetic material anything.

Oh yeah, and they have a bunch of crazy race theories about producing an army medium-brown, mixed-breed supermen. Scip is probably gonna wake up tonight with Jackie holding a rag soaked in ether and Spanish Fly over his face.

Everybody got that? Great. Moving on.

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And I promised shout-outs last post, so here's one to keep me honest: Neil Fitzpatrick, who I will probably refer to as "Neil Jam" as if that's his given name until the day I die. He sat behind me at ACEN, and he draws some the creepy-cutest, lowest-key comics I've ever seen. I didn't do many trades at the con, but I traded with him, and then bothered him repeatedly about how much I liked what I saw. Go be disquieted by his character design!

Posted by Spike at May 26, 2008 01:28 AM

Comments

1)Marcus is a prick.
2)I love the look on Jackie's face as she comments on Gene's "pecker"
3) hehe, she said pecker
4) Gene's mum seems oddly caring in the last panel
4) Templar continues to impress with every new page

Posted by myles at May 26, 2008 03:38 AM
89.241.225.106

Aw, man. Zora saw her dad get wood.

Poor kid.

Posted by Louisa at May 26, 2008 10:55 AM
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Indeed - I really felt something when she said "he got too old for this ten years ago." It was very, very odd, because I dislike the woman so much.

Posted by Alan Tyson at May 26, 2008 07:00 PM
69.41.110.91

Heh, with the enviroment that Zora's raised in, I think seeing her dad get wood really is the *least* of her concerns. Well, so far, anyway, this being Templar. :)

Posted by b at May 26, 2008 08:07 PM
24.67.44.221

But has she really been raised in that environment or are her extended relatives just visiting? It is disturbing, though, what her future with them could behold—especially with "Red Hands" prediction.

Posted by Dotcom at May 27, 2008 08:06 AM
76.100.40.111

Not to mention the hint that it's usually children doing the channeling. I wonder if Zora will get looked at as a possible conduit, since she's Gene's daughter?

Posted by Louisa at May 27, 2008 09:58 PM
205.188.116.16

Louisa-

If they had been planning to use her, wouldn't they have had her get stoned instead of Gene? Maybe it's just the male children that get used or maybe it has something to do with Gene's freaky birth or his odd birthmark?

Never have I been so fascinated by a fictional religion—though the way Jakeskins operate I'd think they could be some a weird branch of LDS. As a child of ex-Mormons, I know all about religions that believe in tactical breeding and crazy race theories—and that's just mainstream Mormonism.

Posted by Dotcom at May 28, 2008 07:50 AM
76.100.40.111

"Supernatural squatter" or some sort of dementia or epilepsy? In the end, I suppose it depends on the witnesses.

Posted by Ebony at May 28, 2008 11:16 AM
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