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Superior Courtroom, Grays Harbor County Courthouse, Montesano, Washington

It seems like I get a summons for jury selection once a year. But this time I was actually selected to sit on the jury. It was a criminal case and the trial lasted only a day. A fascinating experience.

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Grays Harbor County Courthouse, Montesano, Washington

I have been called for jury selection here more times than I can remember, but they never pick me. It used to be we all had to watch a video with Raymond Burr explaining the process.

This is the building where the IWW members accused of conspiracy in the Centralia Massacre case were tried in 1920.

State of Beings #8: Delaware

From an issue of City Limits Gazette in March, 1992. The numerical designation consists of symbols that were available on my electric typewriter keyboard, but not on this HP computer one I'm using now.

No doubt I had a cold while drawing this story. The book Dead Gramps Jubilee I'm reading on the bus is a reference to the "Bil Keane Watch," a CLG feature I'll be getting to in the near future.

Actually I have been to Delaware. I didn't see the character mentioned above, but I did meet an aide to Gov. Tribbitt (the Gov. could be heard talking in the next room) in the Capitol building in Dover. I'm enjoying watching their current election campaign for the U.S. Senate with that loonie who is not a witch. Makes me want to propose doing away with elections and just filling public office by lottery, like we do for jury selection. It couldn't be any worse.

Serena

This is, I'm pretty sure, my most recent comic to date in the minicomic form.

The 1st ed. was printed on grey cardstock, 29 copies, Feb. 22, 2004.

The 1st Danger Room Reprint Ed. in July 2005 had 5 copies on blue cardstock.

For some weird reason I am frequently in the jury selection pool here in Grays Harbor County. For years they used to start the proceedings with a video starring Raymond Burr. Strange.

Serena was inspired by a septic tank-sized depression forming in the backyard of a friend. This comic was drawn with #1 lead pencil in a very tiny size, enlarged, and then the enlargements were detailed. The fact that the boyfriend is pictured as an unchanging prop as if made out of plywood is no accident.