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8. Gilda And Meek "Enter Tork" (Un-Iverse #8)

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Rating: PG-13. (Some bloody violence, language, adult themes, and sexual and drug references.) Author's Note for Gilda And Meek #8 "Enter Tork" (Un-Iverse #8)  Enter Tork is far from my favorite of the first 8 issues of Gilda And Meek. To be frank, I think the Piranha's anticlimactic return sucks donkey balls. And this speaking as a writer that disdains unneeded complications in fiction. But there needed to be more pathos and dramatic pay-off than THAT. The thing that kills me, is that was the best return I could conceive of at the time. Nowadays I coulda spiced things up like THAT. Honestly, if I ever do another "redo" of a poor issue the way I made the Special Edition for "Groundwork", this specific issue would be the next in line just so I could punch up the Piranha's reunion with the group. It's because of that I don't think i...

7. Gilda And Meek "Skeletons" (Un-Iverse #7)

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Rough issue this time. Dark and disturbing. Stay away if you are easily triggered. I am not a psychopath, but you may think I am as the story goes on. Rating: R. (Bloody violence and gore, partial nudity, disturbing images, women in jeopardy, adult themes, occult themes, and some language.)   Author's Note for Gilda And Meek #7 "Skeletons" (Un-Iverse #7) Something to pay attention to: The Conduit being Vic Puff was hinted at back in the fourth issue. As we see in this issue, the thing that marks Vic as The Conduit is a giant x-shaped red birthmark across his back. Guess what? We saw that birthmark at the end of issue four as Vic woke up shirtless and bloody from his wedding night. Because of the rest of his injuries, the reader mistakes it for another sign of rough sex. In reality, Vic ALWAYS had that giant red mark on his back and we just didn't know it.  2020 Postscript It's ...