Jerusalem returns to work for his old partner and editor Mitchell Royce, who now edits The Word, the City's largest newspaper. His first story is about an attempted secession by the Transient movement, people who use genetic body modification based on alien DNA to become a completely different species, and are forced to live in the Angels 8 slum district. The leader of the movement, Fred Christ, is paid to incite a riot and provoke the police, who use it as an excuse to clear out Angels 8. However, Jerusalem publishes a story revealing the truth and brutal methods used by the police. Soon, Royce publishes it live all over the city, and the public outcry forces the police to withdraw. Jerusalem is brutally beaten by police on his way home, but defiantly says that he's here to stay.
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The main storyline of the series, the election and corrupt presidency of Gary Callahan (or "The Smiler"), begins in the series' second year and lasts for the rest of its run. Spider initially considers Callahan the lesser evil compared to the incumbent president ("The Beast"), but his investigation into Callahan's past and ties with a right-wing hate group lead to Callahan having his own campaign manager, Vita Severn, a friend of Jerusalem's, murdered. In a one-on-one meeting, Spider realizes that Callahan is not merely corrupt, but a complete lunatic who wants to be President solely to hurt people with his new power. To Jerusalem's horror and disgust, the people vote Callahan into office by a wide margin.
Then Merlin desired of the king for to have men with him that should enquire ofGuenever, and so the king granted him, and Merlin went forth unto KingLeodegrance of Cameliard, and told him of the desires of the king that he wouldhave unto his wife Guenever his daughter. That is to me, said King Leodegrance,the best tidings that ever I heard, that so worthy a king of prowess andnoblesse will wed my daughter. And as for my lands, I will give him, wist I itmight please him, but he hath lands enow, him needeth none; but I shall sendhim a gift shall please him much more, for I shall give him the Table Round,the which Uther Pendragon gave me, and when it is full complete, there is anhundred knights and fifty. And as for an hundred good knights I have myself,but I faute fifty, for so many have been slain in my days. And so Leodegrancedelivered his daughter Guenever unto Merlin, and the Table Round with thehundred knights, and so they rode freshly, with great royalty, what by waterand what by land, till that they came nigh unto London.
If Uncle Ray walked up on two rats screwing in an alleyway, he'd want odds on which one was going to come first. He's an unrepentant gambler, or as my dad calls him, "a degenerate piece of shit." I first heard Dad say that when I was fifteen, on the Saturday when Ray was picked up at our house for owing child support. "The bitch must've tipped them off," Dad said, talking about Ray's ex, Sheila. "The bitch." That's what Dad always called her, and he called their kids "bastards," as in, "Those poor bastards don't stand a chance under the sun."
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