*This of course refers back to my 2014 Temple of Turmoil story and the page where all of the evil people having a conference call. Which was long before he ever announced his candidacy or won the election. After the Skull was defeated and taken into custody, his former associate and now President arranged his release, which was really a double cross since the President sent his personal hit squad after the Skull. Since some of the Skull's other associates have ended up dead, he sensibly let the world think he's dead and hop off to another dimension.

A couple minor characters are making cameos. The woman is Deena, who we saw before in Ruthless Ro-Man. and Colonel Battle who showed up at the end of Temple of Turmoil.

I decided to make Deena an investigative journalist. I had originally planned for this character to be Felicia Kingsley from Chippewa Ghosts's Bleach Blonde Valkyries of the Fourth Reich. but considering her extensive role in that comic, I just thought it would be easier to go with an original character here, and since Deena was pretty much a blank slate I figured she could serve the purpose.

Not my usual creation, but I am kind of proud of it.
The pipe going to the dishwasher burst on us,  and it became clear from the guys at the hardware store we apparently have some weird non-standard pipe size. It's just a sliver over 5/8" (so I'm suspecting these pipes were cheap foreign imports sized on the metric scale.) They had nothing that was going to fit it. So I've ended up buying a bunch of gear to kludge together a solution.

* A piece of vinyl tubing with a 5/8" inner diameter. Fit's fine on the new pipe, but was struggle to get it down the old pipe.
* 2 hose clamps to help hold the tubing firmly.
* Some water weld Epoxy putty on the ends to seal it off.
* FiberFix repair wrap. It's some kind of fiber mesh that sets solid after being soaked in water. I wrapped up the center of the pipe to hold the two pipe sections together.