Raven in Green again..

nothings changed the senates still corrupt & the emporer remains insane, and every day, is a new strain of slaughter, supply lines are less protected, evil on all sides, eye can smell the death on your flesh--creeping in, trapped within the twisting fingers of fear, and all eye see is ewe, that face, those eyes, burning like leprosy, eye can see u there poisoning the air, prostituing Nationalism, and eye want to attack, to rip out your heart and lay you flat on your back, and vomit a world of agony and truth into your throbbing illness of memory...and hate guides our way, eye long for the icy slap of a belt across my back, for the acceptance of death and blind cave war, the giving sleep of depression, the sweet elucidation of savage meaningless agression, chiseled in the meaty forearms of Mother Jupiter and his slave disciples, in the harem tents--outside, just beyond the edges--eye ride, a cycoptic mare in the fires of imagination. feeding my disease, a river of plagues, eye need something to remind me I'm still sinning that pain is important, that wurdz matter, that healing is possible, that eye am not alone ...in this --guard the houses--triple the watch,--Maidens, dig up your sorcery --sirens, sharpen your rocks..ewe will eat my pain again. whatever you need unite messiah ME

--Wurdz by Otep Shamaya

Shivers
September 01, 2004 3:19 a.m.

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So today I went to the dork store and spent way too much money...buying 5 comics and of course the plastic to store them in. It's such a vicious cycle...this whole comic thing....You find a book you like, and want to read more...but that's okay because it's only 3-4 dollars.....but then you get curious about another...and end up have to get the one you already liked and then the next one in the new series....and then you find another ...and the pattern repeats. And see....as of now....I own 17 Mystiques. SEVENTEEN!!!!. If they are each ....say $3.....how much is that total I've spent on just that book alone? See, vicious cycle.

BUT when I got up to the counter (holding my 4 comics of intent) I asked the nice lady who owns the store (she's awesome! She knows her shit and she's always there.....plus she's relatively young, maybe in her 30's if that.) about Shiver in the Dark (knowing that the new one supposedly came out..but I've yet to see it) (I took in issue 2 last fall and showed it to her and asked her if she knew of it...or had any information on a possible next issue).....And she said she hadn't forgotten that I had asked her about it last fall......And in fact found one...And she got it for me.....And she went to the back to retrieve it!!!!!!!!!

I was so excited my hands were shaking! I couldn't actually believe that the day had finally arrived that I would have the new Shiver in the Dark......the only disappointing part was the fact that it ended. ....It ended....and now I just have to keep reading it over and over for the next year waiting for the next one to come out. But really, It's sooo beautiful! It is still proving to be just as elegant and orginal and post modern as the previous......Really I just love it. I think I'm going to read it a few more times and then email the artist my compliments and apprecation....and also how I came across this issue.....since he is doing the marketing and the production all himself....I think he would like to know.

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