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Answers to Questions (1)

You can leave new questions here in the comment section. This particular video answers:

1) Do you remember the first thing you wanted to eat/drink when you got out? Is there anything you won't eat anymore because it reminds you of your time there?

2) have you still got any elan habits?  does that phase you, or are you not fussed about them?

3) I have a question for you, Joe. You relate very well what happened for you in the men's section. But do you have any information...

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57: Aftermath

https://elan.school/57-aftermath/

The password is: octopus

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CH 56: Explosion

https://elan.school/56-explosion/

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CHAPTER 55: DYNAMITE

https://elan.school/55-dynamite/ 


(Late night drop for the night owls like me. Only for Patreon people!)

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"Somebody Knows Nobody" Ep.0 Part 1

I have kept this comic completely secret from everyone I know, except for my wife and one friend. That friend happens to be a 30+ year friend I've known since we were kids. He has also been a huge follower and supporter of the comic. We got the idea to record a couple long chats and this is one little section I pulled from them. I may post a few more over the next few days. 

I am sure that a lot of you Patrons have questions about certain parts of my Elan experience, Elan in genera...

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Chapter 54: Home Sweet

FIXED LINK: https://elan.school/54-home-sweet/

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CH 53: Blue Ruin

https://elan.school/53-blue-ruin/

Just a quick chapter, before.....

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CH 52: Teamwork Kills

https://elan.school/52-teamwork-kills/
(Please read the message at the end of the chapter.)

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NO NEW CHAPTER YET

Hey everyone, a couple people reached out to me since I've been quiet for longer than usual and I truly appreciate it. The truth is, I *am* kind of fucked up right now.

When I publish a new chapter I am so worn down from the process that I can not even THINK about the next chapter. Usually I am in awe that I was even able to squeeze that one out from the dark black hole in my mind created as a defense to save my waking life from constant Elan memories.

See, for years I was able ...

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CH 51: Tipping Point

https://elan.school/51-tipping-point/

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Chapter 50: Reflection

https://elan.school/50-reflection/


Early access password for Patrons: fan (all lowercase)

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Chapter 49: Paradigm

https://elan.school/49-paradigm/

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Update on the comic

Hey all, I know that many of you get notifications when I make a new post here and I am sorry because I am sure you got excited thinking it was a new chapter notification.

Due to both personal and work-related issues it has been one hell of a last month. I could get into details but I would rather you just trust me on this one.

Making this comic, as in, the actual process of making it, is a really big head trip for me. And not even for the obvious reasons, like the fact that I am ...

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Chapter 48: Head Games

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47: Full Circle (early for Patrons)

https://elan.school/47-full-circle/

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46: Justice

https://elan.school/46-justice/

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Q & A

I was answering a message in my patreon inbox containing some questions and I thought others would like to see the answers.

1. Have you had the chance to talk to people who came from Elan and actually are happy that they went? What would they say to you when you guys disagree? 

Yes, lots of them. I would say about 20% of my fellow Elanians are happy about it for one reason or another. Some because they had really, really fucked up lives and through surviving ...

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Chapter 45: Pinball (Early Access)

 https://elan.school/45-pinball/

password: Poland Springs

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Chapter 44: Curtain Call

https://elan.school/44-curtain-call/

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Anonymous testimony I found on the net in 2009

(author unknown)

Élan. “The last resort”.

In 1981 that is exactly where my father wanted to put me. We went in front of the school board for some type of meeting. The school would not pay for my placement there and furthermore stated that I that I did not need to be in Élan. I could go to public school. My father said “fine then I will pay for it myself”.

My first day at Élan I was escorted to a bathroom, made to strip in front of two strangers and take a quell s...

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Chapter 43 is ready

 https://elan.school/43-new-horizon/

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Chapter 42: Freedom?

https://elan.school/42-freedom/

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An (unsent) letter I wrote when I first left Elan, trying to explain

  

Elan is a horrible place. They make the kids here fight each other in a ritual called “The Ring”. They put the kids into isolation and they stay there for weeks and months, until they barely act human. These are kids. Some as young as 13. They have a thing called a General Meeting where they force our entire House of around 60 children to scream and degrade one poor unlucky kid chosen by the Staff. It is called a GM for short. It should be called the 30 minute hate. We ...

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Something I found jotted down in an old notebook of mine (dated 2010)


"Elan School Breakdown"


No music,
no books,
no pen and pencil,
no magazines,
no TV,
no privacy,
no exit to the outside,
no choice of food,
no choice of schedule,
no freedom to use the bathroom
unattended,
no decisions made
at your own discretion,
constant brainwashing,
other students constantly having nervous breakdowns,
constant noise,
constant announcements being made,
constantly counted,
constantly...

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CH 41: Out to Lunch

https://elan.school/41-out-to-lunch/

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Chapter 40: Old School

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CHAPTER 39 is READY

https://elan.school/39-half-full/

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Elan's Ranking Structure (scribbled note from 10 years ago)

As soon as you walk into The Elan School you learn a concept that everyone in Elan called ‘The Dichotomy’. Every single person who is not a staff member has a rank in the program.

NON STRENGTH  
(this means you are either a new resident or demoted). One non-strength cannot talk or react to another non-strength in any way. For example, if Matt is a non- strength and he sneezes, another non-strength cannot even say ‘Bless You’. These are the non-strength p...

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My first General Meeting (a memory that I wrote down 9 years ago)

My first day in Elan was a complete blur, but I remember being hungry and that I couldn’t wait for dinner. I remember picturing the food that would be waiting on the tables. I knew not to expect much. I thought maybe a couple juice boxes, some mashed potatoes secured in a cup with an aluminum lid, a piece of mystery meat. But coming down the stairs from my "orientation" I was surprised to find that the tables were all bare and everyone seemed to be sitting up at attention like soldiers.

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CH 38: Half Empty

https://elan.school/38-half-empty/

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