A few unsteady blows later, Alek falls, able only to defend himself from his enemy’s axe with his sword, and making every effort to get up while kee...ing his sword in play. Laughter ensues from the crowd around him, and even the ever-serious Bal Han realizes the irony of the situation. In his mercy, Bal strikes down with all his might and crushes the sword in Alek’s grip, taking no less than two fingers with him. Alek kicks upwards, a hard blow to Bal’s sternum, and Bal falls back. Scrambling. Now, when I get back to being Kevinagain, I have a feeling I'm going to have a serious conniption.Speaking of which, how do I change back to Kevin?"Jason shrugged. "The diary just says all you have to do is take off thename tag." But I'm not wearing a name tag," Jenna said, pointing to her amplechest. "That was Kevin, remember?" Hey, I'm just quoting the book. Why don't you try it?"Jenna reached up to her breast and felt. Though she would never be ableto explain it in her life, Jenna felt. "If TJ doesn't screw it up," she said. Then she looked at him. "Isn't it funny how you get to care about the people in the comics?" "The good strips do that," he said. "They become kind of real. It's like a good book or movie. You can tell when the writer likes his characters." He smiled. "I can see you're a big fan, too." She smiled back and nodded, then looked at him curiously. "What do you think is the greatest comic strip ever?" she asked. He thought. "That's hard," he admitted. "'Peanuts'. From the revelation that Mark’s mistress Marlene was in cahoots with the Gordian family nanny Shannon in a heinous plot to the murder of Mark himself just a few moments ago, it had all seemed otherworldly surreal. Marlene had put a gun to his head, demanding that he and Ellen have sex while the two killers carried out their work. But they had promised to spare Henry, Ellen and her daughter Maddie if they simply did what they were told. Now, after overhearing the conversation between Mark and.