Comic: The Elements of Murder (Patreon)

Ran across this comic while rummaging in old folders for a sign it had all been worth it. The outline for this Nice Pete manuscript began to unfurl in my head: there would be discussion of many practical considerations, such as whether any chickens or dogs in the area might alert to your presence. Obfuscation, of course, such as wearing shoes with a smaller, false sole, or a ladies' office pump. Cautious and inchoate jabs at a crude ethos would even appear here and there, like loose sundries in a grandmother's shoebox: not formed enough for its own chapter, but evidence of a pathology the author is too broken to objectively examine. Like a badger beneath a camp blanket he knows it is there, but its revelation and wet eyes are a tangle that would solve nothing and impress no-one.

I had a hard time shaking the feeling that I'd posted this before, since it's such a prime morsel of the old times, but I did not find it elsewhere in the Patreon collections. Please alert-and-forgive if I am mistaken, and I will post an alternate piece for today. Nobody is getting burned on this deal. Nobody is getting burned on this deal.