I've been struggling with some of the writing for this one - mostly having to parse down some of the background commentary and make things sync with what i was trying to do with this next comic. I'm getting there, hopefully will have it up soon, but till then you can look at the artwork for the comic, which stands well on it's own and is even a tad humorous in places. It's about half the resolution of the size i work at, but that's bigger than the standard webcomic size, so you might find it interesting to look at while you wait.

Thanks for your patience. There is a major confluance of ideas and themes going on in this hinge point of the chapter, and as usual it's giving me headaches. Thanks for reading, the finished comic to come later.