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Javion clicks on the lights
Javion: If you wait outside I can call a shelter for you.
Her: Please, I have money, I was just going to leave it.
Back with the Carpe Cajonés boys they take a picture with a drag king in an embroidered shirt, Sonny Bono mustache and exaggerated Elvis pompadour, then smoke at a local dispensary.
Pete sits next to Hayden at the slot machine.
Petr: You got a system to make it pay out?
Hayden: Nah, I just need to sit here and do this for a while.
The machine: Cherry. Seven. Bar.
Hayden: It's all just fucking luck.
Pete: Uh, I think you're supposed to pull the lever at just the right time.
Hayden: Yeah, yeah. Remember when Cain Ontario got caught texting that high school girl?
Pete: Uh...yeah.
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Hayden: What do you think makes a dude break protocol like that?
Pete: Oh, I mean he usually like 'em legal I don't think he's like...a, uh
Hayden; No, not that, I mean...like, I used to meet up with girls - women - adult women who'd D.M. me, y'know she'd be my Boston girl or my Portland girl for a little while and they knew that was all I was and even, like, not even that, every friend I have, everyone I even know...like there's you guys, there's people I knew from before this took off, and there's other people in the business it's like the saying you can make uh, new...you can make new friends but you can't make new old friends. So what makes a guy completely screw his life up that way?
Pete: I don't know, maybe he is some kind of predator.
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In Vegas
Pete: You're not talking to young groupies are you?
Hayden: No, no, I'm not talking to young girls I'm just messed up, I don't know what I'm talking about.
In Javion's studio
Javion: How did we even get in here.
The two guys who were watching with binoculars barge in.
"Alright, everybody freeze. Sister Ruth you're coming home with us.
She looks frightened.
In the woods Thrud flirts with a Fresno Nightcrawler and the bulbous eyed sheet ghost like cryptid she had been fooling around with sees them
In livestream chat
J1mmyJ0n: I'm honestly not sure he actually did any of them.
KallanBale: really?
J1mmyJ0n: watch a video of him, like pay attention
The streamer: as a content creator, can confirm. We're all complete frauds. Ha-ha.
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The livestream guy: That's a joke and all but I could tell you stories from cons and stuff. A lot of people...I don't mean creatively but just as people, are really different in private.
Kallan types "I actually met a guy who's on a pretty succ..." then deletes it.
On the tourbus Hayden is sleeping it off.
Back at Javions studio where he fateful decided to spend the night that night.
Javion: Hey, whoa, whoa.
Her (shouting): My name is Melissa Keavann! They want to take me back to Flatsprings Tennessee! 301 Red Maple Trail!
One guy: PK stand back! This does not concern you! Her and the money she took belong with our community!
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