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Eh. Today is election day. Everyone is hyping it up. I log onto my Facebook & I see "I have voted for *insert name here*" as if people care. Like, it's called "Election day" for a reason. We know you voted! Jeez... I would have liked to have seen something interesting put up there. Maybe "I did something productive with my life!" or "I just slaughtered an entire family with a toothpick, a pair of shoelaces, & some mouth wash" Something worth seeing.

But, yeah. It gave me some time to read since this was a slow day. I was reading The Devil's Rose [again] by Brom, who is my favorite artist, and thought about how it might actually play hand in hand with the Pillowman. In The Devil's Rose, we see how several hell beasts leave the bowels of their dark abyss & slaughter five individuals to take over their bodies. The protagonist of this story, Cole McGee, comes in & bit by bit takes them down. As he goes back to Hell to return his captured fugitives, we find out that the only reason he is fighting is to redeem his own personal demons. Hearing about Cole made me think of Katurian. He wrote because of all of the things he heard in his past as a youth similar to why Cole fights monsters & brings them back to their fiery prison. Katurian writes because he loves to, but it could have been so much better if not influenced by the pain & misery behind it. Cole does it because he feels like he has to pay back everything he has done in his life, but also if his life was different, it could have been so much better for him.

Oddly enough, though, how Brom wrote his book, more or less letting his artwork tell more of the tale than his words, I could have seen Pillowman being the same thing. No matter how graphic it may have been, I think images would have been much crazier to display it's point opposed. I could picture the Pillowman being a somewhat innocent creature but still look demented due to what his job entailed or visually seeing the girl in The Little Jesus.