DEO VINDICE, pages 6 and 7

A small preview of the 25-page comic I drew mostly in November. The text is still being added to the first half and the second half, well...it's not finished being inked. But it's pretty, right?

Snow White done right

In this version of the story, "Snow" is fired from her corporate job thanks to her jealous co-worker, and gets a new job working in a diner run by an immigrant family. She comes to love her new job and new friends. But the jealous co-worker finds her, and reports the family as illegal immigrants. At the immigration office, a defence attourney appears to save them. He turns out to be one of the diner's regular customers. Snow, the family, and their attourney return happily to their diner, to live in peace.

The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me

The heavy bear who goes with me,
A manifold honey to smear his face,
Clumsy and lumbering here and there,
The central ton of every place,

The hungry beating brutish one
In love with candy, anger, and sleep,
Crazy factotum, dishevelling all,
Climbs the building, kicks the football,
Boxes his brother in the hate-ridden city.

Breathing at my side, that heavy animal,
That heavy bear who sleeps with me,
Howls in his sleep for a world of sugar,
A sweetness intimate as the water’s clasp,
Howls in his sleep because the tight-rope
Trembles and shows the darkness beneath.

–The strutting show-off is terrified,
Dressed in his dress-suit, bulging his pants,
Trembles to think that his quivering meat
Must finally wince to nothing at all.

That inescapable animal walks with me,
Has followed me since the black womb held,
Moves where I move, distorting my gesture,
A caricature, a swollen shadow,
A stupid clown of the spirit’s motive,

Perplexes and affronts with his own darkness,
The secret life of belly and bone,
Opaque, too near, my private, yet unknown,
Stretches to embrace the very dear
With whom I would walk without him near,
Touches her grossly, although a word
Would bare my heart and make me clear,

Stumbles, flounders, and strives to be fed
Dragging me with him in his mouthing care,
Amid the hundred million of his kind,
the scrimmage of appetite everywhere.