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I am a moron. It is only now that I realize the two primary protagonists in this series -- far from the only ones, but they're still the primary ones -- are GWEN and ARTURO. In a side-series to a series in which the protagonist was functionally a future space-King Arthur. Geez.

This is bittersweet, but bright. You can feel Morris Day's conflicted state, aware that he owes his fame to a friend who treated him horribly, trying to contextualize his career within the career of a dead legend who abandoned Morris & villainized him. Yet you can also feel the sheer joy, the childlike delight which Morris feels for music and performance -- a delight totally absent in the more famous Prince.

After the nihilistic doomspiral that was Richard Pryor's autobiography, I'm hoping against hope that Morris Day can give me a little bit of hope.

Geez. I mean, I knew this would be an earthier autobiography because it's Richard Pryor, but i didn't expect his childhood to involve quite so much grooming and pedophilia... Yeah, basically grew up in a brothel so some of that was probably inevitable. But the scene in which a man who molested Pryor as a child comes back as a grown man WITH HIS OWN SON to visit now-famous Pryor because the boy is a huge fan... GEEZ.

Now that final long-form story was interesting! It sets up what SEEMS like an awful Middle Eastern racial stereotype, only to flip it on its head -- these figures are actually intentionally disguising themselves as that stereotype to prey on the ignorant and it is Scrooge & Donald's own assumptions about who these strangers must be that wind up nearly dooming them.