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Written by and Lettering: Daphne • Art: Sturkwurk

Can't be more excited by the new chapter.

Huh, wonder what justifies making it a second book? Maybe a time skip?

Arbitrary abuse of editorial power.

Olivia can turn any damn page in my book she wants. Daphne too, for the most part ^^

But Charlotte is obviously best girl...

Fight me!

Okay, not really. But I did get to thinking, this is strangely timely with Endgame having just happened. Is easy to look at the harem house party as the culmination of the first big arc / phase of development, and after that there is a question of where does one go next. Seems hard to top the finale(s) in question again anytime soon, but do you keep trying to build up and out or do you start over small? Or some combination of the two? I guess we'll find out in a couple weeks / next year~

Imagine a thumbs up symbol.

This is coming out a lot quicker than I expected.


(that is NOT a complaint)  ;)

Pages appear to be posted without dialog.

No text or dialog, So we have use are mind reading power  ???

Yeah, no text and no speech bubbles make Homer... something, something.

Go crazy!

Don't mind if I do!

 ???

I can sort of follow along without dialog. But I feel that I am missing quite a bit.

(like, who are these people?)

A challenger appears! ...or so I gather.

Came to report lack of dialogue, but I see it is already done.  Not opposed to a dialogue-free story, but this gives me the impression it is missing :D

While I hope the dialog finds its way into this chapter, I have to say that the lack of it really allows me to appreciate the quality of Sturkwurk's art.

Have to agree, but it does leave one wanting to know just what Charlotte and Olivia are up to now, aside from hypnotizing Mia's husband again, as well as who the new girl is and whether or not the dude is the master from the first book.  Although, that last page makes me think that she might be trying to hypnotize him with the same method as Olivia.

Small production issue... fixing!

Thanks Daphne!

And yes, Sturkwurk's art is gorgeous as always.

No we need to use our mime reading powers.

And fixed!

Thanks Daphne!

W00t! I now have a rare and valuable collectible!

The download file is still just pics.

As always, that takes longer to be reprocessed.

PDF file still have only picture

Please see the message right above this one.

It says "PDF file still have only picture".  The one above that says that those take longer to be reprocessed.

 ;D

All kidding aside, this is good stuff.  I'm looking forward to where this goes.

We had this problem a few months ago. If the 'old' version had been downloaded something somewhere was holding onto it and served it up each time rather than the replacement version. It wasn't Daphne's server and it wasn't the PCs, it was somewhere in-between.

Good news: it sorted itself out eventually.
Bad news: it took several days

sorry about that.

Oh that's cute. This is Book 2 because there is a second official Book, as opposed to that knockoff paperback Monty has. Or at least that's what I thought he had; I may be getting my books mixed up... Regardless, at this point he's pretty much an employee with benefits (which Olivia seems to be in the process of revoking), as opposed to Craig who is starting fresh and unencumbered. I was wondering where this series would go, and I like that Craig didn't do much more than make his wife laugh hysterically in this issue. The slow build would be a good counterpoint to the industrial enslavement operation that is well underway with our original crew. So happy this is back in binding! (That was a book joke, get it?)

Thank you for adding the dialogue.

I know this is late, but I really enjoyed this one. I like that there is a mind control element that isn't immediately used for sex, even if it is just a little silly. _pumpkin.