Comic 783 -- Weighing the Odds

 Gail and Krylov face off...

Lone Wolf and Cub (Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima) is one of my favorite comic series. In the fifth volume, we find a classic story called "Half Mat, One Mat, a Fistful of Rice," in which our tortured hero finds himself facing off with swordsman of equal (or maybe even greater) skill. Through multiple pages, Lone Wolf visualizes how this duel will unfold... and each scenario ends in either a draw or his own death. It's a riveting piece of comic writing and art.

I've always wanted to do something like that. Since my pages come out only once a month, I could not justify trying the patience of my readers by dedicating page after page to this psychic duel, as was done in Lone Wolf and Cub. So here is my tiny homage, presented with great affection. I hope you enjoy it.

Return of the Outtakes

 Well, it came to me about a week before August drew to a close that I was never going to get the strip done in time. So instead, here we have... Outtakes!

For those of you who are new to Thunderstruck, I had a tradition of marking chapter breaks with some bonus art, wallpapers, and silly outtakes. You can find the collection here. 

These ones are mined from the post-hiatus chapters, so they're a bit of a trip down memory lane.

One strip a month is not much to ask for a readership, but when the month was like this August was for me, it still became more than I could manage. I hope the outtakes are amusing enough to tide you over. Let us cross our fingers for September.