Daily Grind, Book XVII, Pages 287 & 288

Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 5, the 101st storyline overall, is "Star Chamber."




The Daily Grind Table of Contents

     Yes. What could possibly go wrong?

     Still, if folks would like to review Coil's career as a soul-sucking monster, let me refer you back to our 20th storyline, "Hypocrisy," when our little blue monster was much larger and unable to use the first-person pronoun.

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