Two Embittered Shapes Began

Just another bridging-type comic today. For reasons still at large, I like the device of Buddha as narrator. It might be because that panel of him floating in the center of his room in the crazy zoomed-out view is very pleasant, in a things-are-centered primary-colors multiple-symmetry sort of way. Plus also, in this particular instance, it serves to further emphasize the fact that the Buddha really, really always knows what's going on. It makes his role in the events that follow sort of confusing, but in exactly the way the Buddha is always sort of confusing.

The circumstances to which the Buddha alludes in the third panel (look, the text all fits in there, isn't that convenient?) are pretty interesting, and for that reason I'll try to get around to them post-haste.