Welcome to DESA DAMAI, an inner-city neighbourhood considered aspirational in the 1980s---now decaying and too ugly for gentrification ...

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Members of rival gangs---the Black-Bands and the Thirty-Eights.

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Playing SimCity with a pen. Trying to draw a Southeast Asian inner-city neighbourhood.

Three guesses for which downtown Kuala Lumpur township I am basing this on!

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Character portraits I just finished inking:

YINYIN, who asks you to find her missing father;
UNCLE YAT, sundry shop owner and former militant;
AUNTIE ROSE, a trader at the nightly thieves' market;
MR SEOW, the homeless geezer who'll ask you for rum.

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Dr Azman, related to royalty, wealthy enough to not practice medicine, an authority in several ethnographic specialties.

He loves his wife like he loves his learning---as a thing of the world now tame in his possession.

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Sara, socialite and volunteer teacher at a refugee community centre. She means well. She is having nightmares. It's just stress from the pregnancy, she thinks.

(Slacked off during Christmas / New Year; time to get back in the saddle.)

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SANG HYANG SEMARA RATIH

She is the moon goddess of Java and Bali, ever pursued by the demon head Kala Rau, and though ever caught and swallowed---always and ever she escapes: slipping out the hole in his neck, laughing bright in the heavens free.

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