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A GRAPHIC NOVELLA BY

of course someone will take responsibility and the

killing machines will be sent to take them out.

later today my 4 x 4 will be found burned to a crisp, along with an unidentifiable body

inside.

part of the reason i was allowed to do this mission was that

afterwards i’d be re-assigned to the bio-weapons division.

sometimes that kid scares me. He knows

i’ll never make it back to the safe house.

i hate leaving the unit like this but i’ll keep my word...besides, i’ll always be looking

out for them.

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It’s been almost a year since Sarge was killed. We’ve been going from one hotspot to another and need some r&r.

Terrorist cells seem to be coming out of the woodwork

and as fast as we stop them, two more splinter off and

take its place.

Last month in Bolivia things got hairy and we lost Mikail

during a firefight.

We’re exhausted and have to take a break

before we get sloppy again and more of us

get killed.

On our way home, we’re hitching a ride with a hazmat recon team when a suicide

bomber detonates a “dirty bomb” in a crowded mexican

bordertown.

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By the time they’d have rounded the corner and realized i was there it would’ve already been too late.

Killing the lights like that will disorientate them

while their eyes adjust to the dark after being

outside in the bright afternoon sun.

My phone vibes in my pocket. Someone’s set off my silent

security system. I turn off all of the breakers for my place. It goes dark everywhere. I’m

locked and loaded.

BUDDABUDDABUDDA

WHUP

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CHKCHK

ACK ACKACK ACKACK ACK

BRAKARABRA

KARABRA

KARA

WHOOMP

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BATTLES WITHOUT LIVING WITNESSES

A GRAPHIC NOVELLA

by JASON THIBAULT

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my last safehouse was compromised. a 12-tonne shithammer was headed my way.

tear gas grenades, combat shiotguns,

kevlar vests. whatever worked.

they’d be relentless.they would come in

fast and hard.

chongo and the rest of his crew would be hiding until my remains were carried out of

this building.

the sellout was complete now. every available cop. every spare gun for hire.

was at my doorstep.

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i eye-swept the horizon. nada. they were out

there. time to let them know that i was home.

a two beretta welcome wagon. they wouldn’t expect me to shoot first. not out in the

open like this.

and normally i wouldn’t.

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the best i could do was strafe the rooftops.

bring the fight to them.

the berettas emptied. no time

to reload.

and even in the chaos i could tell they’d reached the sixth floor. they were right behind me.

bangbangbangbang

bangbangbangbang

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Born in Zrenjanin, Drank Djukic received his degree from The Art Academy School in Novi Sad in 1995. In 1999 he began his post-graduate studies at The Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade which he completed in 2003. He is a member of U.L.U.S. (the association of Fine Artist) since 1997. He is mainly active as a painter, but he is also involved in comics. He has published his comics in major magazines from Former Yugoslavia, like Nin, Intervju, Stav, Slic, and Zr-Strip.

THE ARTIST WITHCRAZY SKILLS

Pen & Ink

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DJU

KIK

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH

RYANPATTERSON

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Where did you grow up and maybe talk a little bit about your surroundings?

I have lived in Kentucky all of my life, I’ve been lucky to have been able to travel the world and gain a lot of perspective that informs my decision to continue living here, but it’s home and I do love my life here. I was born in 1977 in Lexington, KY. My parents and their families are all from Louisville, but they went to college at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, were married there and years later both my brother and I were born there.

We moved to Elizabethtown, KY, when I was eight years old and I lived there until I was eighteen. Elizabethtown is a little under an hour south of Louisville and it was during my years there that I came to love music, eventually discover punk and hardcore, start my own band, and have my mind opened to all that can come with that experience. Once I graduated high school, I moved to Louisville and have lived here since.

INTERVIEW BY JASON THIBAULT

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