A shared issue
Wash & Fold · No. 4
“Darks Separately” — 8 panels and their narration, as the studio finished them, in the Silver-Age Halftone look.
Halloween at Dot's. Half the city wears a red cape tonight. Nobody asks which one is real. 
Walt folds towels by the dryers, still weak. Three little Beacons march past him. He hides a smile. 
Silt drips in from the river. "Great costume, mister!" a Beacon shouts. Nobody has ever cheered him before. 
Then Mina, the girl from the river, walks in. Cardigan, glasses, a laundry basket. Her costume is me. 
"The Beacon told me who the real hero was," she says. Walt laughs so hard he coughs. 
Then the power dies. Thirty washers go quiet. In the dark, three little Beacons stop being brave. 
A light comes up. Not Walt's. Mina holds her palm out like a lantern. The room goes gold. 
Walt went under with his light and came up without it. Now who tells a nine-year-old? 