…is now out at some 135 locations in Seattle, and has been mailed to subscribers. Beginning next week, it will also be made available nationally via Last Gasp, the alterna-book distributor and comix publisher soon to enter its 35th year. Ask your local alterna-bookstore to carry MISC as soon as it shows up in LG’s catalog.

I’VE STILL HOPE FOR THE MARINERS to pull this series through, even though they respectfully lost Game 1 and are behind by a run in Game 2 as of this writing. Faith and hope, after all, are what we’re told we need more of these days, right?