Chapter 2, 21: Not The Worst Day Ever

It turns out that Eldritch, the "eccentric Bay-area sorceror" of the Champions Universe looks like the late Stephen Straker. What can I say? It's fan fiction.

Birth Crisis in Grocery Retail?

Last two times I did this, I was taking hard aim at the way that Hostess Frito-Lay was leaving money on the table with an excess of sheer stupid.

This, I'm more sympathetic about. This is a shot in an ice cream novelties section window of a stand-up freezer display case on a hot Saturday afternoon. There's a case to be made for it being empty. Running out of things happens, this is the time of the day and season when you expect to run out of ice cream, and at some point, it is physically impossible to do more.

But, the translucent plastic flaps at the front of the empty displays are the spring loaded plates at the back of a self-facing display installation. Facing builds sales, but the display takes up space that could be used to stock more product in the first place. Has the tradeoff really been costed out?

Of course not.

Chapter 2, 20: A Demonstration, Eventually

Time is a theme here, have you noticed? Is anything really too early or too late?

Chapter 19: Hanging Out All Week With You

Character descriptions, I haz them! Well, a few, and nineteen chapters late. But I have them.

Chapter 2, 18: Message in the Thorn

Totally not influenced by the Deadpool stuff out of Comiccon.

Chapter 2, 17: Histories

I have received information that kids are still passing notes in class today.

Chapter 2, 16: Family Secrets

No-one ever has nice family secrets.