Specifically, of the second :01 Second collection of Check, Please (subtitled Stick & Scones). This wraps up Bitty’s four years at Samwell, and presumably resolves the cliffhanger that Year Four, Chapter 22 (posted at noon today) has left us on. Unfortunately, the incompetent, malicious grifter in the White House has ensured that this is not a functional world, everything is disorganized, and review copies haven’t made it out to everybody on :01’s list because — and let me clear, this is important — people not dying is more important that me having an ARC to write about today.

So when I’m able to get a copy of Ngozi Ukazu’s sure-to-be triumphant conclusion, I’ll let you know. Until then, you can read very nearly the entire story online, and as a special treat we have Fleen Senior French Correspondent Pierre Lebeaupin here to tell you about what’s going on Europe-ways.

I have news from the civilian zone, and news from the front.

On the civilian zone, the #coronamaison has become really big. How big, you ask?

• How about that much bigger after having received contributions from the (paid) illustrated prints for March of both Maliki and Laurel (also remarkable illustrations on their own rights), as well as many others since we last spoke of the project: Julie Manassero’s, Mathieu Bablet’s, Ozlisky’s, and Mifflue’s) caught my eye, but Gally’s has got to be the most remarkable of the bunch.
• How about big enough to have not one, but two sites that catalog the different creations so far?
• How about having the template being mass-printed by Sud Ouest for its readers? You know, the local newspaper that covers Angoulême?
• How about being used for remote schooling work everywhere in France, for art therapy, or for an illustration student work prompt?
• How about being realized as a 3D paper template [PDF] by an outreach society for the architecture trade?
• How about being mentioned in the friggin’ New York Times?
• How about big enough to have the template be hijacked by the web presence of a widely broadcast TV program: not only did they not credit the creators, but they even added their own copyright to the template … (this has been fixed since then). Fortunately, the #coronamaison was also featured on TV with proper credit at least two times, both times with an interview of #coronamaison architect Timothy Hannem, and once with an interview of #coronamaison inventor Oscar Barda. We at Fleen eagerly await the forthcoming TV interviews of #coronamaison project lead Sandrine Deloffre and coronamaison promoter Pénélope Bagieu.
• And how about, finally, being violently dismissed (no link, he does not deserve the attention) by everyone’s least favorite paedophilia enabler? Yes, I think all #coronamaison principals are going to wear his disapproval as a badge of honor.

And now for the front lines. I mentioned Solange Baudo, aka Soskuld, a few times here. She is a nurse’s aide but also chronicles her work in a comics blog, starting way back from her studies. However, about five years ago she quit the hospital to get a formal training in illustration and comics with the aim to work on that full time, which she has now been doing for the past year.

Until last week. Now it’s part time.

Because last week, she has again donned the safety gear and started working in a clinic for 12 hours shifts after volunteering on MedGo, as she relates in a riveting testimonial (French-only, sorry). Yes, in a COVID service near Paris, an area hard hit at the time of this writing.

Solange, we at Fleen salute you, and you can be assured that, the next time we meet, I’ll have something for you. I’m thinking a cake. A big one. But the best support I can give you right now is for me to stay at home.

As always, we at Fleen are grateful for FSFCPL’s observations from the heart of Europe. Rester en sécurité, mon ami.

Spam of the day:

Doctors can’t explain why this insane method passes every lab test …

Let me stop you right there. It’s because you’re full of shit and there are no lab tests. Fuck off.