It’s done.

Tonight I finished Issue #5. I find it somehow fitting in a strange sort of way — It’s kind of a
complete circle. #5 got off to its real start the week of September 11th last year… I’d taken a
full week off of work, starting the 14th, to go to SPX in Bethesda. As everyone knows, the show
was cancelled, but I still had the week off. I wasn’t feeling like working anyway, so I took the
week off and basically spent the entire time brain-jacked into CNN. The constant stream of news
was oddly numbing, and I got a ton of work done on the comic. I didn’t want to cope with real
human beings, and the quiet womb of creativity afforded me what little solace could be found in
those days.

To commemorate the anniversary, tomorrow I’ll be participating a peace march headed up by the Ann
Arbor Ad Hoc Committee for Peace and many of the local Islamic organizations. We’ll hold candles
and walk single file through the streets, bearing signs that say “Our Grief is not a Call For
War”.