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The Ring part 2 (early for Patrons)

Good questions and a long answer.

I got a question in my reddit AMA and while I was answering, a lot more than I expected came out. So I wanted to share it with my Patrons. Here was the question:

Can you explain more about the different ranks?

If you became a shotdown would you re-earn your rank after a probationary period or would you have to re-climb the ladder? How did your big brother deal with becoming a shotdown? Does that mean he was no longer strength?

Who decided who...

V2v Podcast interview with former student at the notorious Elan School.

Senior contributor Alexei Lindes interviews Annie Paschen, former student at the notorious Elan School.

Sneak Preview (Warning: Very Disturbing)

Here is a sneak preview of an upcoming chapter that flashes back to the Elan of the 1970's.  

My time in Elan was horrible, but in the earlier years, unspeakably disturbing things were commonplace.

Christmas in Elan

X-mas in Elan was one of the most depressing days imaginable because December 25th meant nothing. Staff wanted to be home so only one adult would show up on that day. And of course, for the majority of the teenage inmates, it was horrible because none of us had ever spent a Christmas away from our family.

Your freedom has been taken away from you and the doors are guarded and you are literally being counted every 10 minutes. This was every day in Elan. So you never forgot that. But on ...

Friends and Enemies in Elan

A large part of Elan was the idea of taking 60 teenagers and trapping them together in a tiny house that they couldn't leave. That alone could have made an interesting social experiment or "reality show".

Most of us had never been away from home for more than a week and suddenly we were stuck together. Add an insane North Korea style brainwashing regiment, and you really have something weird and scary.

The adult staff members merely visited our Elan teenage world. We were the on...

Doing this comic is affecting my home life

Digging up my buried memories of Elan, for this comic, is having unfortunate consequences in the real world...

Making this comic has provided me with a great sense of relief. I noticed that whenever I would finish a chapter and press 'publish', I would get this sort of relaxed "sigh" in my brain, as if I was releasing some weight which had been on my shoulders for years.

But I am starting to realize that there is an opposite edge to that sword. I had gone almost two decades proce...