Book One · free to read
JUST HERE TO HELP
Nine small things, fixed.
Somebody films a pothole and complains about it. The pothole gets filled. That is the whole superpower, and in this city it reads as science fiction.
Somebody films a pothole. The pothole gets filled.
That is the whole superpower. Nine short comics about a man who turns up and does the boring thing that works: a permit, a form, a bin, a vote. Every one is built on something that actually happened, and every one is complete on its own, so you can start anywhere.
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Nine small things, fixed. Turn it up.
All nine stories
01
THE POTHOLE
He filmed it to be annoying. That is genuinely all he was trying to do.
02
SNOW DAY
The plows do the streets. Nobody does the sidewalk. The sidewalk is the whole problem.
03
FOURTEEN HUNDRED
A man on television explained why nobody would sign up. Fourteen hundred people signed up that afternoon.
04
HALALFLATION
The price on the sign went up while he was standing in front of it.
05
EMPIRE BINS
For a hundred years the city left its food on the floor every night and then wondered.
06
THE EXODUS
They announced they were leaving. He held the door. Nobody moved.
07
TWO THOUSAND SEATS
There is no fight in this one. He fills in a form. It takes eleven minutes.
08
THE FARE
He said the buses should be free. The city agreed with him immediately and stopped paying. That was not the same thing.
09
TURN THE VOLUME UP
Somebody asked the city to keep it down. That was the mistake.
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