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I'm very pleased to announce that the first 78 issues of Saint James Infirmary are now available as a high-res consolidated PDF, including covers, as a single download for members (http://mindcontrolcomics.com/members/download.php/sji-v001.pdf).

Note: This file is 270 megabytes. Be prepared.

These look great, thanks. Plus the text is text, so you can have Adobe Reader read it out to you, which I can wholeheartedly recommend for episode 7, say.

I had actually forgotten that the first girl we ever saw in Zenon's office was Caitlyn, and that we saw her pussy before her face.

I like to think we caught her off guard.

It's better to log into the main site first. Then download the file at the link rather than try to bring it up in a browser page which is the default if you simply click on the link.

every time I try to down load it stop at 5.65 MB
and can not read the second page.

Five time 5.86 MB stops

use Adobe Reader ver 11
reinstall Adobe reader
still did not work

Version 11 of what?

Here's a ZIP file for those that are having trouble with the bare PDF (http://mindcontrolcomics.com/members/download.php/sji-v001.pdf.zip).

the Zip file work much better

Not for me,  Unable to open because file is "unsupported or damaged."

In fact, this doesn't save as a ZIP and the other one only comes as a temp file.  Looks like I'll have to ask some questions via the orders e-mail.

Whichever version you want to open, don't just follow the link to open the file. You need to save the file that the link points to. If you don't know how to do that in your browser, google it and find out. Or switch to another browser.

Look, I knew that.  But the first link doesn't have a save option, and the second one doesn't save as a ZIP file.  It saves as a corrupted Adobe file which I can't view at all.  The naked one can open...slowly, but is just clogging up temp memory.  Something is askew.

Open question.  What program should I open this or any pdf with?  I've tried both links on two different browsers.  No luck.

What type of device are you using? What operating system? What browser?

What are you doing when you try to save the targets of the links rather than follow the links? And what options do you see when you do that?

The second link would definitely save as a zip file if you saved what it's pointing at because it's pointing at a zip file. What you're describing sounds more like what would probably happen if you just followed the link.

I will say it's interesting to see how the art has evolved over time, and I find I'm surprised at the element the hypertext seems to add when it's gone.  Particularly when it was used for inside jokes or author comments (Mallory's shade of eyeliner, a comment on the sexiness of the specific issue, a window, even a joking one into the characters' inner worlds).  Very interesting.  Unfortunately for me, the poetic and musical tidbits mostly flow right past me.

GW--I sent you a PM about my specifics and the travails of my own making.  I also sent Daphne an approved e-mail outlining the situation and an embarrassing request I was required to make.

We're happy to supply both a bare PDF and ZIP file links. Please note that for time-limited content, making sure it really does download and you are not reading it on-line is the customer's responsibility, so if you are reading the bare PDF version in your browser, make sure you save it somewhere before it expires!

And also, be careful with it once you have it.  If you screw it up through operator error (like me), try to do it before the window closes.  If ya do it afterwards...whoops.  Trust me, I know.

I'm really happy you've put SJI into .pdf format.  Hopefully, this will happen with the other volumes.

One small nitpick.  I noticed Episode 58 was missing.

I know.....you just can't please some people! ::)

Whoops! That's been fixed, so if you re-download it now (either PDF or ZIP versions), you'll get #58. Sorry about that!

Looking through some early episodes from Night of the Watch, I'm left with a few questions

1. What's the gender of the owner of Atomic Coffee?  I have a hard time imagining early Erin not ripping a guy who dumped her limb from limb (or inducing him to do it to himself).

Is Van Winkle's still around?  Or did it fold after Typhoon Dani blew through because of ambiance problems and tough competition from Sawyer's?  I saw an audition flier that Adrian walks past on his second day, and I think one of the girls has a shirt, but I don't think we've ever seen inside it or even the building's face, even though Kearsage is an exceptionally small town.

Also, we've been through this before, but Adrian's an only child, right?  And he was conceived significantly after Operation Happy College shuttered?  Some estimates are that he's only a few months older than Pearl.

There was considerable discussion of this earlier, and some internal information may be contradictory. To settle the matter once and for all canonically, Miriam is very close to the same age as Adrian.

Wonderful.  Is Van Winkle's roughly the sort of establishment as Sawyer's or has it been keyed to a different clientele.  Will we ever see the proprietor show up at the SJI or the airfield begging Dani to come back?  Though I suppose if we were going to see that, he or she would have sent flowers after the accident.

We have actually seen people drinking Atomic Coffee in this volume.  It might be interesting to meet one of Erin's exes who isn't

A. COMPLETELY EVIL (Cherry) or
B. permanently curled in the fetal position sucking his thumb (her last boyfriend before Adrian arrived).

You know these Valentine's Day things are supposed to be anonymous, right?


To expand on that, according to "Dramatis Personae..." Adrian and Miriam are both Librans and they're both 22. The contradictory information is (I assume) in episode 49 where, on The Night of the Watch in January, Adrian says his birthday is in four months.

That was the Expanded Universe.

It was the same with me and my keys this morning. Bloody Expanded Universe...

I think most of the discussion about this related to exactly when Pearl was born and information we were given in the forum rather than the comic itself.

Being 22 and Libran indicates a birth in Oct/Nov 1989. Thus 255 from Christmas day 1988 shows Jacqui fairly shortly before both she and Miel fell pregnant. That would appear to have been around 18 months after Jacqui first met Miel and Patrick. It may be significant that Jacqui's in a room with a similar set of musical instruments and décor to those shown in Adrian's parents' apartment in g22. Or it may not be.

I suppose we have to wait until Adrian or Rain mentions Patrick and Miel by name as Adrian's parents to see if fire shoots from Jacqui's eyes or lightning from her magnificent rump.

For the record, I cannot see any situation in which Jacqui would marry Ezra where he wasn't Pearl's biological father.

As I've said before, "Dramatis Personae..." indicates that Ezra is her father. But surely the most significant thing we can glean from g22/23 is that there's a connection between Jacqui and Adrian's parents. Indeed, "the gig" itself appears to exist solely as a device to bring those people together. In the absence of that device, everything else that those two pages tell us could easily have been fitted into one. So while it may be a red herring, it seems more likely to me that it isn't. Obviously that doesn't mean that there's a connection between the births. But there's something there. And something brought Jacqui back to Kearsarge all those years later. And we've never seen her remark on how she knew someone with Adrian's surname in Kearsarge all those years ago. Does she remember those days? Reliably?

EDIT: Just to expand that universe, two or three months after g22/23, we can place Jakob in town too.

Somehow the phenomenon that could have brightened Jakob's existence and given it meaning was right under his nose and he missed it.  Quite possibly typical behavior from both brothers.

Any news on the second volume? or is going to be a bit?

Keep up the good work all :D

Sometime in March!

What's the working title for this collection?  I don't think Harem Night is broad enough.

Where's the cutoff point?  Dani getting run down by Julian and Cherry?

For volume 2? "A Blessing in Disguise." It runs through the page of the same name.

So, from the first introduction/rediscovery of PC thru Harem Night, to The Acknowledgement, but before Vik goes stark raving bonkers.  Okay.  That's only about 2/3 the size of the original volume, but it's a good bracket to the action.  Out of curiosity, why don't the downloads include the various covers?

They do, at the point in the series in which they were released. The first download has cover 1 at the start, cover 2 between issues 12 and 13, and cover 3 between issues 50 and 51.