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Panel 1
A grizzly corpse stuffed in a barrel.
CAPTION: Accounts of the Ferryman’s activities tend to be greatly exaggerated.
CAPTION: His “battles with the Court Jester,” for instance.
CAPTION: Tabloid fodder.
CAPTION: Court Jester remains unidentified. Uncaught. At large. A serial killer. His capture, let alone many, wish-fulfillment. His handiwork, the stuff of urban legend. Nightmares, really.
CAPTION: Known only, besides the trail of bodies, by the letters he invariably addresses to the mayor of Hun City...
Panel 2
Hacked up remains in a grave partially uncovered.
CAPTION: “Dear Mayor...”
CAPTION: “I had a vision the other day, of a city filled with dancing people.”
CAPTION: “One could argue, corpses don’t dance, but I say that guy would be no fun at a party.”
Panel 3
A body soaked in blood, stabbed to death in an alley.
CAPTION: “Dear Mayor...”
CAPTION: “We live in a society that has lost its grip on reality.”
CAPTION: “Can I really be blamed for wanting to help things feel just a little more real?”
Panel 4
A corpse with its eyes having been removed.
CAPTION: “Dear Mayor...”
CAPTION: “Every time your laws close in on my activities, I have to find creative new ways to become harder to see...”
Panel 5
A corpse in a crude facsimile of the Ferryman’s costume.
CAPTION: “Dear Mayor...”
CAPTION: “I know he’s not your fault, but could you please do something about the Ferryman?”
CAPTION: “It’s just, he’s always threatening to cramp my style.”
CAPTION: “What I’m saying is, he’s inconvenient.”
CAPTION: “And even if he ends up stopping me, at some point you’re gonna have to stop him, too.”
CAPTION: “Either way, the story remains the same.”
CAPTION: “Yours as a faithful servant,”
CAPTION: “Court Jester”
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