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STOP AND GO RETURNS THANKS TO THE END OF STUMPTOWN AND JESSE'S ABILITY TO RESUME COLORING. huzzah! what you mean she still has 12 pages of lettering due for San Hannibal, a comic coming out from Pop! Goes the Icon & Dan Schkade? oh. well. SHE'S STILL GONNA COLOR 'EM ANYWAY. click on this long bit for the lettered page yeah?

A QUICK GUIDE TO MISCELLANEOUS DENOMINATION

HAVE SOME, OR YOU WILL DIE. a short summation of the most necessary of things

starting with coinage:

Where would we be without the 22cent coin? The very basis of our currency, the primordial ooze of the base. The cost of a soda. The price of an individual snackeral from a vending contraption. This, luddites, is our primary coin.

Created to supplement transactions in lower inflation areas, the fifty cent coin is thought of as extra weight as it is not easily broken but does not contribute much to purchasing. Several vendors refuse to honor the derelict.

When paired with a 22 cent coin the humble 90 cent coin then becomes an 8 cent coin, in order to facilitate more rounded numerals in places like Popularis, where the cost of a soda has reached the astronomical bench-mark of .30MD. Please be advised that the 90cent portion of this coin is only most useful in the Southern areas of the continent, where 3M is too much but .5M far too little.

The 3M is the most flexible of the paper currencies, comprising generally the cost of some hideous fruit (who would purchase such things regardless?) or the delicious hock of a ham. One would be well advised to stock mostly 3M and 7M in one's wallet, for the price of 10M is a catch-all in the quickly inflating world of Popularis.

The 7M was developed to allot for inflation in the more populated areas of Malicious, such as Popularis and Alta-Frisco. Currently it is most often used for large illicit payments, as the bill is considered "numeral flexible"—it can be rounded up to reach the 100th, such as 98M devised in 7M can be viewed as 100M by cash-only merchants.

The 15M is considered the half-tender of Committee Business. Paychecks are always divisible by 3, therefore, the 7M is but a filler in place of the natural extension, the 15M. Most paychecks are delivered in quantities of 15M, with the few high-paying jobs—like Hunter-Level hits or Insane-Level Sin-Kills—utilizing the rarely distributed 30M.

The 30M is rarely distributed except to make one appear wealthy, so that they may be targeted more readily, such as high-paying jobs that ought to be fearful for their wealth accumulation. After all, Villains pride themselves on scraping by in the most tough of circumstances, and those with the gall to be comfortable ought to consider themselves vengeance fodder.

To hold a 200M is to be most likely a SuperVillain and in such case I've no idea why you need to read this. Fuck off.

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ODDJOB'S JOB LOG:

HIRING CRITERIA FOR BASIC RENT-LEVEL EMPLOYMENT

S'TABBUKI

Power/flaw requisite: some kind of 1.5 meter + offensive ability ie ice breath, poison darts, lightning brain

Previous barista experience

187

Pulse

No next of kin

MEPHISTO'S

Sole owner of your own soul

Open availability

Heat resistance a plus

RAYS "π" US

Power requisite: supergenius (200+)

Flaw requisite: crippling doubt, fear of success, easily bulled into deathless loyalty, etc.

#$!

Bachelor's degree

Office experience

Team player

SIX PIX

Power/flaw requisite: red/onyx skin, preferably resembling a demon

DICK IN A BOX

Minimum bench press 450 lbs

Healing factor a plus

S'TABBUKI (2ND ATTEMPT)

Persistent optimism in the face of abject hostility

BULLSEYE'S

No prior experience required

15-20 hours / week availability

Just show up whenever, basically

APPLE

-classified-

CHUCK-FILLATIO

Ardent hatred of and/or possessing of homosexuality

FOOLKILLER'S

-N/A

THE WAL

Hopelessness

Cowardice

Infidelity

Greed

Hate

Surrender

Acceptance of the fact that you were always The Wal

That The Wal was always.

That The Wal always Is.

BARNES & FUCKERS, SHITKICKERS ESQ

Photographic memory pre-loaded with the entire villainous dictionary

5 + years previous retail experience

Verbal abuse skills tested on interview

S'TABBUKI (3RD ATTEMPT)

Fair to good reflexes.

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From THE POPULARIS PRATTLER, Weekend Edition

"ARTS" and "LESURE"

INTERIOR DECOR VS THE MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP

"[…]We've all got that friend (quotes implied, naturally) with the high-backed Slo-Revolve™ chair they keep in that second bedroom they try to pass off as a lair, but the wheeled chassis and hidden handles for convenient transport undercut the desired effect to a deathly depressing degree. In a housing economy defined primarily by one's ability to garrote squatters on a regular basis, nothing makes more of a statement on one's villainhood than a flashy, permanent, and wildly impractical bit of furniture. It says, 'this is my territory.' It says, 'I'm here to stay.' It says, 'you'll take this when I'm permed, cremated, and expunged from Committee records and not two minutes prior.' And nothing says it quite like the latest deco fad threatening to break into the realm of must-have design staple: The aquarium wall, eye help us all.

The permit process takes, at minimum, seven months. To even get it in the building requires the removal of one's exterior wall, potentially the buying off of one's neighbors, and usually a prolonged and brutal altercation with one's building manager. This murderously difficult-to-maintain installation isn't a conversation piece so much as a conversation ender, a final word filled with fish. 

Think of the Verticality Ocean. The awe and the terror that divides our fragile crust of land from that of our hated rivals. This dark, unknowable deep. Take all that wonder and mystery and hang a flatscreen on it and, well, what's left to say?"

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and so ends issue 1. issue 2 starts march 1st. get ready!

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THIS LEASE (the "Treaty") dated this 4th day of April, 4427. BETWEEN:

THE RENTICIZER ("Landlord") 10009 Main Drag, Popularis, Malicious, 44441 -AND-

STOP AND ("Tenant") 4444 SW 4th St, Popularis, Malicious, 44444

IN CONSIDERATION OF

the Lanlord leasing certain premises to the Tenant, this completely non-legally binding document has been constructed for mutual Villanic understanding, and the Tenant leasing these premises from the Landlord and the mutual chores and obligations provided in the Treaty, the receipt and sufficiency of which consideration is hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Treaty agree as follows:

[…]

TERM 8. The term of the Treaty is a periodic tolerance of STOP AND living on Renticizer's property, beginning this day April 4th, 4427, and continuing on a month-to-month basis until Permanent Death, Eviction, or Eviction.

9. 4 hours notice is all that is required to notify the Tenant to get the fuck out, and the Tenant must comply.

10. If the Tenant wish to terminate the Treaty themselves, vacating is all that is necessary, but for formalities it must be done after forty days of promising to vacate.

11. If the Tenant does not vacate after forty days of hemming and hawing about moving the Renticizer will Re-Po that motherfucker until he so chooses to leave.

[…]

Upon signing this Treaty, Stop And and Renticizer agree to not Perm each other over something so silly as sudden eviction, shutting off the heat for a laugh, or murdering a cat.

x___STOP AND______________ x___RENTICIZER______________

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The Committee Building For Excellently Horrid Services To The Villainous Community enjoys an ease of aesthetic navigability and an organicism of administrative apparatus chiefly informed by its design team being comprised entirely of the most megalomaniacal, sociopathic, and dare we posit, visionary villains ever to work in the blue collar class – or, in the interest of directness, The Committee Building For Excellently Horrid Services To The Villainous Community is as close to a physical manifestation of villainy as three dimensions travelling through a forth will allow.

While certain stubborn stains in the high-quality linoleum of our waiting benches stands in evidence of the villains who have attempted to pierce the carefully crafted tedium through explosive violence—directed either at others or, just as frequently, at themselves—The Committee Building For Excellently Horrid Services To The Villainous Community is nether pleased nor apologetic to declare a net zero crime rate seven consecutive administrations running. This is partly owing largely to the presence of our stalwart system of Guardians (status of which protected under Slavery Of Information Act Articles 3 though XX 109), but we like to think the main quelling agent is a crushing, godless monotony that follows you from the first non-sequential number you pull from the randomizer cue to the six-week mandatory but undisclosed processing fees enacted and disbanded at will here, at The Committee Building For Excellently Horrid Services To The Villainous Community.