And we’re back! Thanks for your patience during the past two weeks while we rejuiced and got ready for this next chapter–which is a big one. Seriously, I know we’ve raised a lot of questions and started a lot of mysteries over the years–and certainly we’ve done some big reveals along the way–but with this [...]
Archive for ‘Chapter 19 – The Man Who Sold the World’
This might be the most Thrice Evil (whichever incarnation in whichever story you want to pick) has ever spoken at once. It’s… weird. Marc did a bang-up job with the color orange here, and with the lighting in particular. I mean, look at panel four. Wow. That’s some solid villainy right there. Next week: A whoooole [...]
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Nov 1, 06 | 29 – Introducing Dr. Klein! |
Jun 20, 12 | 422 – Whoof! |
Jul 17, 15 | 657 – The Most Difficult Thing Swifty Has Ever Done |
Jan 6, 20 | 821 – Frightening Frogs |
Mar 11, 20 | 838 – The Situation |
People crash through walls a lot in this saga. (<–I’m sure there are more.) You’ve met the Earth-Avalon version of the Lodge of Doom… now, here’s the Society of Heroes. To save you the trouble of looking through the tags, from left to right that’s Ms. Missile, Swifty, Raptor XII, General Will, Captain Spectacular II, [...]
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Feb 25, 13 | 483 – Bubbles of Light 8 |
Aug 31, 15 | 676 – Jerry, Meet Thrice Evil |
Jun 25, 12 | 423 – Family Resemblance (or Lack Thereof) |
Oct 16, 06 | 23 – The Incontinent Duo |
There’s a little bit of an info drop in that first panel, but forget about that BECAUSE HOLY CRUD THAT SECOND PANEL! The only bad thing about it is it’s so small. Marc draws battles and combat as good as the best and he did not disappoint here. The new coloring technique he’s been using [...]
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Jan 13, 20 | 823 – Beating The Enemy Back |
May 5, 14 | 592 – Bubbles of Light 9 |
Nov 17, 14 | 637 – Dimension-Crossed Haters |
Apr 30, 12 | 407 – Spy Days Are Over |
My scripts are usually pretty detailed, but this is one of those times Marc and I worked in the ‘Marvel Style’–I give Marc the general idea and he illustrates it accordingly, deciding how he wants to break things into panels and what he wants to show. I’ve learned to do this as much as possible [...]
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Mar 18, 20 | 840 – Twice the Thrice |
Apr 30, 18 | 782 – The Lone Figure in the Doorway |
Mar 11, 20 | 838 – The Situation |
Dec 2, 19 | 815 – Two of Them |
Dec 10, 09 | 237 – A Surprise Visitor |
For a second there I thought this was strip #666. Would have been appropriate if it was. I have to say it’s crazy fun to work on this alternate reality. I love what Marc did here with the Thrice Cave. OF COURSE it looks just like Thrice Evil’s head from the outside. Y’know, Thrice, that [...]
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Aug 14, 20 | 845 – Better and Better |
Nov 9, 16 | 712 – Ah-ah-ah |
Dec 21, 16 | 721 – Requiem for Money Man |
Dec 7, 16 | 717 – The Fury of Soviet Sam |
Dec 18, 19 | 820 – Heart-Stopping Great Looks |
Swifty was gone so long from the strip that I kind of forgot how much fun he can be to write. There’s a lot of dialogue crammed into this strip, but his stuff, though incidental, is my favorite. I guess even when you bring a ton of new characters onto the stage, they can’t really [...]
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Oct 27, 20 | 850 – Grand Entrance |
Nov 4, 10 | 283 – Future or Past? |
May 19, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 14 “Save Him, Dirtlicker” |
Greetings,Fellow Fogeys Fans! Marc here on posting duties while Brock takes a well deserved family vacation. Here we find ourselves back in Zurida’s torture chamber where our poor Captain has been spending a LOT of his free time.
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Nov 9, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal, Pg. 11 “One Life Ends…” |
Aug 5, 08 | 151 – Peanut Butter Cookies |
Happy Mondays, folks! I’m not much of a “words” kind of guy. I prefer to let my pictures do the talking, so I’ll keep this brief and let you all handle the speculation. Speaking of my art, did you know you can follow me on Instagram, Tumblr, and Facebook and see some of my other [...]
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Jul 5, 22 | 903 – Big Dumb Floating Ape |
Oct 7, 11 | Chapter 12, “Jackpot!” Recap by Steve VanDyken |
Sep 12, 14 | Pg. 10 – Breaking Free |
Sep 20, 16 | 10th Anniversary BONUS STRIP 1! |
What is Money Man’s escape plan? How much fight is left in Cap? What is up with Dark Maiden? Tune in next week!
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Jul 4, 11 | 330 – Swim City |
Oct 22, 12 | 451 – Will Tangerine Help? |
Apr 4, 07 | 134 – Driving Everybody Off |
Oct 11, 06 | 18 – Ben Gay Smell |
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Jul 19, 22 | 907 – Where is Sam? |
Sep 14, 16 | 699 – How Captain Spectacular Takes Care of Business |
Nov 5, 14 | 634 – Twin Plots |
Nov 11, 08 | 178 – Death, M.D. |
Jul 22, 15 | 659 – Wasting Time |
Once again, Brock keeps the twists and surprises coming. I mean, here we have two versions of Swifty in the same place at the same time and not a single “@#$%!” was uttered! Unbelievable!
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Aug 19, 11 | Pg. 5 “Why She Left” |
Oct 5, 11 | Chapter 10, “Bubbles of Light” Recap by Danny Burleson |
Jul 7, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 21 “Sayonara, Sucker!” |
May 15, 08 | SF Collection #2 Cover |
Jul 9, 12 | 427 – I Bet He Wishes He Was a Lizard |
Hey, I’m back! Had a nice little break there and now I’m back in full force (though I’ve been active in the comments and in posting blogs), ready to provide the regular dose of inanity for you to skip over on your way down to the comments. Today’s strip is a reveal I’ve been looking [...]
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Jul 29, 08 | 149 – Santa Rocket |
Feb 11, 21 | 873 – Against the Wall |
Nov 3, 09 | SF Origins: Spy Gal vs. Star Maiden, Pg. 1 “The Mrs. and the Ex” |
May 26, 14 | 598 – Do You Moisturize? |
Nov 13, 06 | 41 – Swifty’s Litany |
Did you hear the big news? SuperFogeys is now on Comixology! We’ve been working on this for what seems like forever and I’m so glad it’s finally, FINALLY real. You can get all the details right here in yesterday’s blog. Please help support SF! Don’t forget there’s a new SuperFogeys Origins page on Friday. This [...]
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Aug 6, 09 | 219 – Bubbles of Light 5 |
Nov 12, 14 | 636 – Rotten Little Saplings |
Mar 16, 21 | 882 – Says You |
Sep 10, 18 | Pg. 15 “Something Missing” |
Dec 24, 12 | Merry Christmas From The SuperFogeys! |
Just for the record: this is 100% what I would do if I ever went to the White House. What woman doesn’t like to hear she’s sane? Hey! Guess what? SuperFogey is a featured free comic on Comixology! How cool is that? Don’t forget to rate the book if you pick it up!
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Jun 16, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 18 “KAPOW!” |
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Jan 7, 13 | 469 – Beating Into Submission with Peace |
Jan 27, 11 | 293 – Good Actor |
Jan 9, 13 | 470 – Soviet Sam Strikes Again |
This chapter is gonna zip back and forth pretty often between Earth-Avalon and Earth-? (so named for now, though the number of this strip–616–has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? (major Captain-America-Wizard-of-Oz points if you get that)), so get your charts out. Actually–hopefully–you shouldn’t need them. If you’ll notice, something I’ve been doing [...]
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Nov 7, 11 | 360 – Decision |
Apr 16, 09 | 204 – Florida Beckons |
Apr 1, 11 | Pg. 9 “Always” |
Feb 9, 10 | SF Origins: The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular, Pg. 5 “Michelle Masters” |
Nov 2, 06 | 30 – B-I-N-G-O |
Another beautiful effort by Marc, treading over ground we just covered last week. I try to think of interesting ways to put in bits of action here and there (always with a purpose–this strip also gets Cap right past all the powerless stuff he was saddled with during the Invasion) because Marc is so great [...]
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Nov 11, 08 | 178 – Death, M.D. |
Oct 1, 15 | Chapter 21 Teaser! |
Sep 2, 08 | 159 – Strange Dreams and Wedding Plans |
Jun 17, 11 | Pg. 10 “Lost Faith” |
Nov 7, 11 | 360 – Decision |
Yikes! I’m posting this a bit late so I better make it quick. How’s that? See you on Wednesday with a double-sized strip!
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Oct 9, 08 | 170 – There Will Be Blood |
Nov 4, 19 | 809 – The Jerry Cradle |
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Jul 17, 15 | 657 – The Most Difficult Thing Swifty Has Ever Done |
Dec 2, 10 | 287 – GAH! |
For Soviet Sam, the journey to this moment has been a long one. I’d encourage you to click on Sam’s name in the tags (or right here) to check out his past appearances to see the full scope of what this hug might mean to him. Infamous Nefarious commented on Monday’s strip (which saw Sam [...]
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Apr 4, 18 | 777 – The Howl |
Aug 19, 08 | 155 – Bait and Switch |
Mar 5, 14 | 577 – Who are the Two Queens? |
Jun 13, 11 | 324 – What is a Hero? |
One of Marc’s artistic high watermarks has got to be the Donutron destruction of Las Vegas. That’s a sequence that also took place at night. I think Marc is just really good at nighttime stuff, and this strip is no exception. The colors sing. This chapter is about to get down to brass tacks. You [...]
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Nov 23, 06 | 50 – And the Actual Winner of Bingo Night is… |
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Mar 23, 21 | 884 – No Good at This |
Aug 18, 22 | 916 – Restoration |
Jul 30, 09 | 218 – Good Friends |
I’m INCREDIBLY excited for what this strip is leading into. One thing we used to do a lot of around here is flashbacks. Been a while since we had a good one, but that’s about to change in a big way. You want to know stuff? You will know stuff. ANNOUNCEMENT: Because of scheduling conflicts [...]
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Mar 17, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 5 “Prison Stripes” |
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Aug 7, 13 | 524 – Cracked |
Dec 5, 12 | 464 – Cuffed |
Sep 7, 12 | Pg. 5 “Who Squished?” |
Hey everyone, I want to take away from today’s strip (I count at least two revelations! One I’m pretty sure some of you saw coming, and one I don’t think anyone did), but I wanted to let you know about a little situation here at SuperFogeys Central. Unfortunately, in a double whammy, my wife and [...]
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Aug 10, 20 | 843 – What About the Crawfish? |
Oct 17, 18 | HUGE NEWS! SuperFogeys Volume One—Inaction Heroes now on Kickstarter! |
Jun 23, 14 | 603 – General Will and the Society of Heroes |
Jan 23, 17 | 728 – Oh, Brucie… |
Jun 4, 18 | Pg. 1 “My Name is Gordon Jones” |
Gotta be honest with you, guys. I don’t have it in me for much of a post tonight. This unemployment thing is emotionally draining. I’m barely eating and just seem to be nervous a lot. I know things will get better, but right now I’m kind of living in the muck of it all. Apologies [...]
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Oct 16, 19 | 804 – Leaving Washington D.Z.(T?) |
Aug 28, 15 | 675 – Crossing Worlds |
Oct 9, 19 | 802 – Nothing More Important Than Loyalty |
Jun 25, 14 | 604 – Vs. |
Jan 24, 18 | 757 – Just Another (Thrice) Evil TV Star |
Marc here with a brand new strip full of Earth (or Earths) shattering information. Both Brock and I thank you for your patience while the dust settles from Brock’s unemployment situation. For the time being, we’ll be scaling back our schedule a bit to accommodate the unexpected curve balls of life. There will be no [...]
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Sep 14, 11 | 351 – Dreams Come Crashing In |
Nov 12, 20 | 855 – Making Thrice Evil Sad |
Nov 15, 06 | 43 – The Healer Approaches the Captain |
Jan 27, 12 | Pg. 3 “The Trial of Space Pig” |
Apr 13, 12 | Pg. 8 “Enter: The Thrice Evil” |
Hey, everybody! Sorry I’ve been gone so long. These past couple of weeks have been rough ones. There have been good times, but I haven’t been unemployed since I was 21-years-old and trying to figure out how this new life is supposed to work while also figuring out how to put food on the table [...]
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I just can’t even comprehend the amount of work that had to go into that second panel. Strips may be small, but that deserves blowing up. Wow. I haven’t counted how many characters Marc managed to cram in there, but I know it’s a lot. I script these things but Marc always, always turns it [...]
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Aug 24, 15 | 673 – Captain Spectacular’s New Duds |
Jan 22, 20 | 826 – Into the Suckface |
Sep 5, 12 | 442 – The Rest of Them |
Dec 5, 16 | 716 – Boy Haircut |
Jul 23, 14 | 612 – A Tale of Two Swifties. |
Today’s strip reads a little weird without the context surrounding it. I try to avoid this sort of thing. I much prefer it when the strips can stand at least somewhat on their own, but the nature of this section of the chapter makes that a little difficult. I highly recommend going back a few [...]
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Jul 22, 13 | 519 – Three Months Ago |
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Apr 18, 11 | 308 – Time Displaced/Erased/No Taste |
Sep 3, 14 | 623 – Kirbyesque |
Oct 28, 10 | 282 – Mucking with Space and Time |
One of the things noted in a recent comment (forgive me for not remembering who said it) was that this storyline is making SuperFogeys the inverse of the “mirror universe” trope in which alternate realities are generally worse. That’s pretty much exactly right, as today’s strip makes abundantly clear. You guys are so smart. GOOD [...]
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Sep 23, 06 | 2 – Introducing Jerry! |
From the beginning you’ve all been weirded out by the whole three finger hand thing. Well, this one’s for you. This week we’re finally back to our twice-a-week schedule. You’ll be glad we are. Lots of juice still left in this chapter. Unemployment update: I’m still unemployed and working hard on fixing that. Some recent [...]
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Oct 2, 13 | 540 – Jerry is Committed |
Mar 10, 14 | 578 – A Different Kind of Torture |
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Feb 20, 12 | 388 – Bay-buh |
Dec 8, 06 | 57 – Captain Spectacular Forgot His Pants |
Getting some good discussions going in the comments lately. Even though the dark secret of the SF Universe has been revealed, many of you are still wondering about certain things, certain… details that don’t quite make sense or suggest still other mysteries. There’s still some big revelations coming this chapter, don’t worry. Things are gonna [...]
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Jun 2, 14 | 600 – Earth-Avalon |
Mar 3, 11 | 298 – Vile Villainous Vole |
Sep 7, 15 | 679 – The Design of His Life |
May 17, 08 | SF Collection #3 Cover |
Apr 2, 18 | 776 – Tragedy Strikes (Literally) |
Sometimes, I ask Marc to accomplish the tricky task of communicating a character’s entire state of mind or silent conversation purely through a facial expression. I think in order to write effective character dramas within the comics medium, you’ve GOT to be able to handle facial expressions well. It’s why Marc is such an effective [...]
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Dec 16, 08 | 188 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 5 “In The Dark” |
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May 20, 08 | SF Collection #4 Cover |
Jan 5, 21 | 864 – Walking the Dark Side |
Every once in a while someone will make a comment about how everything goes back to Jerry. How right they are. He may disappear for a chapter on some crazy, worldwide scavenger hunt, but still he lurks. He underlines everything in this story. It’s always been that way and it always will be. Had a [...]
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Jun 9, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 17 “Er-Hurm!” |
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Jun 14, 22 | 897 – Streaking Past |
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Today’s strip kind of unlocks a big piece of the puzzle and I’m looking forward to seeing what you guys make of it. I know some of you have objections to the way these flashbacks are playing out, and that’s okay. Chapter’s not over yet. A flashback heavy strip like today deserves a few annotations. [...]
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Dec 5, 11 | 368 – Darn That Dr. Klein |
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Jan 7, 21 | 865 – Balance |
Oct 6, 14 | 627 – Splintered |
Man, this is a real trip down memory lane. Longtime readers will recognize these scenes from throughout both SuperFogeys and SuperFogeys Origins. Newbies, don’t worry. Knowing all these references or not knowing them isn’t going to impact future reading. But, for those who want to know, I present to you: annotations! Panel 1: This is [...]
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Jul 5, 22 | 903 – Big Dumb Floating Ape |
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Jun 3, 09 | The SuperFogeys Free Comic Book Day Page! |
Mar 26, 07 | 125 – Jerry’s Down |
This isn’t any kind of secret, but at the same time I’m not sure anyone has noticed that Swifty is the one character who has not changed one bit since Chapter 1. There’s no arc for him, no softening of his hard edges. Swifty is Swifty. Does that mean he can NEVER change? No, but [...]
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Feb 5, 20 | 830 – Literary Twist |
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Apr 30, 12 | 407 – Spy Days Are Over |
Jul 12, 22 | 905 – Big Landing |
Sep 11, 08 | 162 – Just Another Purty Face? |
I challenge you to not love Marc’s Carl Sagan-esque redesign of Dr. Rocket. You can’t do it. Zurida’s pretty smokin’ as well. Enough of that! Did you see our latest blog? Marvel used some of Marc’s art for their 75th Anniversary television special without his permission. This is a thing that happened! Well, Marc’s friends [...]
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Mar 25, 20 | 842 – Someone to Hit |
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Jan 4, 17 | 723 – Ascendant |
Swifty. Nothing if not consistent. If you missed it–and because it’s such a big deal it deserves repeating–Marc’s art was recently used by Marvel without his persmission for their 75th Anniversary television special. All of his friends jumped on this and took to social media and the result was quite surprising. You can read all [...]
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Jul 16, 09 | 216 – Cami |
Mar 25, 20 | 842 – Someone to Hit |
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Sep 15, 14 | The Principle of Order |
May 27, 13 | 507 – Telling Off Skunk Head |
This is a subject that’s been in much debate in the comments lately. Is Jerry at fault for the things he’s done? Do you agree or disagree with Money Man?
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Apr 3, 13 | 494 – Hugging in the Throne Room |
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May 20, 08 | SF Collection #4 Cover |
Hey, everyone! The intense debate that followed last week’s strip took me a bit by surprise. I opted out of commenting because I didn’t want to give weight to one view over another, but at some point today I’m finally going to dive in and try my hand at a little opining. The issue of [...]
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May 5, 12 | Pg. 11 “Fly Away” |
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Aug 28, 13 | 530 – Jerry’s Greatest Hits |
Suddenly, Jerry is a very popular guy. Won’t he be so pleased when he finds out? Great shot at the end there by Marc. That’s a total hero shot. And shirtless! You’re welcome. Chapter 19 – The Man Who Sold the World ends next week!
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Feb 14, 18 | 763 – Serious Issues |
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Yikes! Sorry, folks. Didn’t mean to take so long to get some notes up. The big revelation with this strip hearkens allllll the way back to this strip, when we saw for the first (and only) time what the Thrice Evil of Earth-Abaddon would be like were certain controls not in place. And now you [...]
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Today, Chapter Nineteen comes to a close. More than any other chapter, I think this one may be best read in one sitting. You can start it at the beginning right here. This has been, for me anyway, a vastly different chapter from any we’ve done before. I was going through old SuperFogeys files just [...]
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Oct 14, 08 | 171 – Hello, Karma |