xkcd is the best.
Private detectives, mercenaries, beautiful heiresses, penniless students, and the sisters of penniless students all collide in a real mess of chaos. I'm going to warn you now, this is a testing ground for a bigger, more detailed novel. I'm using you, my wonderful audience, to see how well it works.
Exactly one year on the job and this happens. Not that auspicious, is it?
In 1932, a little boy "acquired" a roll of stranded copper wire. In 2011 or 2012, he gave it to his great-granddaughter and she had no idea what to do with it.
There's a power outage in Chicago, and Tom wants to investigate. Which is a shame, because Wes was about to get a girl to make out with him. But monsters and power outages don't wait for make-out sessions.
I used to do it, too. Some authority figure in my youth probably suggested it. I believed them and for a long time, I did it, too. I don’t know what changed, but one day I started noticing when other people did it. I started noticing when I did it. It started to annoy me.
In which we meet a pair of sisters, and a man who makes monsters.
I love Howl's Moving Castle for a lot of reasons. This is one of them.
A best friend can make things worse, then better, then worse, then better again.
I keep getting into the same arguments with friends, family, and anyone who ends up talking to me about politics. Minimum wage. The best way to unbalance any average person’s argument (whether they are for minimum wage or against it) is to ask them to explain money.