Walking mage: One political satire

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The same author that brought up Jenny Mysterious, also brings The Walking Mage. This is a completed comic, that I just started on. It's a nice political satire that seems ... far too close to the real world.

http://www.iboxpublishing.com/index_walking_mage.php#WMtop_of_strip

Short Summary: What happens when "our hero" is in charge of a project, the people in charge (king/queen/etc) don't like him, and figure the best way to ruin him is to force the project to fail from bad purchases and cost overruns...

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The fun begins on page 11
http://www.iboxpublishing.com/quintonstrips/webcomic_Walking_Mage_by_Mark_Oakley_11.jpg

(NB: From the link in the OP, on the left hand side are strip numbers. Javascript opens them in the same page, and you go next/prev with the arrows. Without javascript, you have to click on each one.)

Here our hero is complaining about being under-utilized, and the crowd mis-interprets what he is saying, and asks him to protect them from ...