A most gripping and dramatic chapter! Filled with fantastic illustrations and dialogue! Love the old criminal slang you use for the king pin! A very nice touch! Hope this doesn't end badly for the heroine!

On the note about moving, I did have my fingers crossed so tightly that you would get to move out of your crazy neighborhood soon! Well, maybe if I wish for things to quiet down there until you can move, maybe that would help? So that is what I will concentrate on! Take care my friend! Good times gotta get here soon!

LOL.. Use the Force, Bill... 😄 Maybe if we both meditate together the Force will find us a new place!

Great page! Take all the time that you need. Take care.

Such a terrific addition to your saga, Rod...love that dialogue :) One lesson I learned from my mother who lived through Stalin and then the Nazis: never put into writing you would not want others to read...

This is freakin' awesome. Unbelievable tension, well crafted as always, outstanding gorgeous character, very hot, brilliant render.
My favourite eyes-glued-to the canvas story and for sure, the most addictive. Impressive directing as always.
Magnificent Masterpiece of Finest Arts. I f#%!3 love it!

Excellent chapter! Looks like little miss nightengale is one dead duck... Unless those thugs do something stupid. Gee... Thugs doing something stupid unheard of!

Sorry to hear you'll be stuck there through another winter!

Awesome images and story lines Rod!! I likey!!

Super render and great story!!! :-)

Super funny villains, Rod. I hope Natali makes it out unscathed (or with as little scathing as possible).

Oh, just wait..... 😉 Hope that nasty storm misses you, Jay!

Very intense chapter !!! Excellent work on all the scenes!!!

A great story development. How is she going to escape?

Goodness Rod, this is gripping stuff! I hope she gets through all this. Lovely work. Must take forever! Stay safe Sir! Sorry, you won't be out of there by winter.

I hope she ends up as a new member of the TNA team. They may underestimate her and get whacked themselves, she is a killer even if she can't stomach killing kids. Whatever, it will be a great continuation I am sure...

Fantastic page, as always !

Wow !! Exquisite job well done !!

voices in her room? wonder if these is some sexual encounter going on? but turns out these goons are in her place. i'm just astonished with your very talented stories and panel development Rod. always professional work and my favorite series by any artist works. i wa wondering when the assassin was going to make an appearance again. really brilliant work and ideas.

Thanks a million, Steve! I'm blushing now, buddy! LOL

Simply fantastic! No more words, great story 👍🙋‍♂️

amazing chapter! Beautifully realized and presented!
GREAT Job!!

Excellent work... I'm already looking forward to the next page!

I think her friends will come to the rescue and keep their butts. superb story and composition/ poses

Fantastic storyline and excellent images - very professional work!

You are one of the best story teller's around. And this one is right up there. Well done. LIKE + FAV + 5++++++

Thank you very much, my friend! I'm blushing now... 😉

as daggerwilldo said (along with others), really well written, Rod. Terrific story-telling. You created a very sinister scene, replete with revelations Natali didn't want seen (her texts), and the threat of annihilation, along with a dingy concrete office and a boss with a heavy street accent---a guy out of a 30's crime film. (Graves? I assume that's Graves? He has that street style you saw in old Edward G Robinson and James Cagney gangster films ("Ya can dish it out, but yer gettin' to where ya can't take it...") Ominous first frame: a blank, empty hall and wall, and sounds that shouldn't be there. The lighting in the 2d scene feels like something bad is happening. (Somewhat harsh light, not flattering to her place. Great angle with her back to us with the criminals' front to us. Really fine 'shot'.) All the outfits are first rate---the crminals are all in dark tones, and N looks so much more stylish than the thugs---she stands out. Love the lines on that floor too---they take us right into the criminals.

The "establishing shot" of the warehouse is perfect: dark, brooding...prepares us...And the last two frames are concrete/cinder block shots (I keep saying "shots"!), with dark and cool light. Your captions bubbles are arranged perfectly between your characters. The lamp casts a jaundiced glow, which is also perfect. And the final frame shows N (Natali/Nightingale) front left, as she looks over to her potential murderers---really fine composition---who face her in awful cold light and shadow. Then the final inset image shows the boss with that typical line of "make it look clean") (in the old show, "Deadwood," the head bad guy, Swearengen, played by Ian McShane, said "Make it look like an accident..." when he gave the order to kill. Chilling command. Graves has the same terrifying coldness.) And "graves" is a perfect name too.

Really well put together, and leaves us on pins and needles as to what will happen to N. I now know who the woman in the all night bar (or coffee shop) was! All solved! Beautifully done Rod. And again, all my best to you and Jo in the ongoing work to fix up and sell your place. Sorry it will take you through the winter, but, if so, what a fine spring it will bring. I wish you godspeed with it all, my friend.

Man.... You always have a way of making me feel like I'm standing in the company of Lucas, Jackson, Filoni, and other storytelling / directing legends of our time. You never fail to brighten my day, Mark! I've said it before... You see stuff in my work that I didn't even see - and your observations feed the creative machine for the next page, and the next, and the next. Thank you, buddy! You rock!

A good chapter. The drama is intense. Those mean guys are mean.

When I first posted this, I didn't communicate the mood of it correctly. Think of it as a guy musing over a good movie he just watched, mulling it over, imagining possibilities! This was a great chapter - I'm just a guy whose brain wont stop picking through ideas it comes up with!

She went into her apartment knowing there was trouble inside. Why?
Did she she get access to a weapon?
Was there some other compelling reason she had to enter her apartment, even at the risk of her life?
Is she simply depressed to the point where she feels her life isn't worth fighting for?
I'm these and other answers are coming soon!

Let's see, after the Thomlinson-Nicholsby (T.N.A.) job went south, Slickie called Marko for help.
Marko, as we know, told him where to stick it and how far in it should go. Mr. Graves is not acting like someone who just cut ties with a... "moron," I believe, was Marko's word for it. Did Slickie use two different "organizations" to handle two different bits of dirty work? One for the kidnapping/murder and one for the breaking and entering?
Nah... Slickie is not that smart. Is he? Or is he a puppet for someone who is that smart?

My, my, my, what a tangled web! Can't wait to see where all this leads!

Oh, you think it's tangled now..... Just wait..... 😆 Yeah, both Graves and Slickie have their irons in multiple fires.. 😉

amazing work, again!

I agree with Goldie. Great story!

Things aren't looking so good for her right now, but the night is still young, and desperation breeds creativity.

Nice work ! ! !

Uh Oh! Crap! She must have some hidden skills. Don't leave us hangin' too long.

Excellent