Billionaire Island #4 and #5

[roguefankc]

(Mods, each issue is 22 pages for the main story, so 6 scans per issue)

When we last left off, Business Dog was left all along on the island as mercenaries killed Business Dog's butler (who was the only one who knows how to access Business Dog's bank accounts) and reporter Shelly Bly managed to gain the trust of a fellow civilian named Woodruff who agreed to help her escape the mercenaries sent by Bel Canto's father's nurse, Rueben.

Issue # 4

Remember in the first issue I mentioned that only one billionaire managed to surve the purge of the other billionaires from the drones and escaped to the desert?





Shelly and Woodruff, while preparing to flee for the nearest drone port, get to talking and Shelly learns what happened to the neighboring towns when the stock markets crashed and both the billionaires and the lower classes lost everything...



Reuben, still desperate to find Business Dog, decides it's a good time to delegate the search to the immense cult he generated around Business Dog via the false news stories Bel Canto's company kept circulating.





The lone billionaire along with Business Dog manage to get to the only nearest working drone and prepare to take off. Unfortunately, ony mercenary managed to see this and with his dying breath...



Don't worry you guys! The dog's all right!

Issue # 5











Hmmm...

Comments

[bradygirl_12]

I wanna live in the toy store! 🪀🧸🧮🧶

[roguefankc]

Honestly, I think for all dead/abandoned malls, they could seriously repurpose them to be micro-lofts and apartments. You'd be able to provide a lot of people cheap places to live, the mall would no longer be useless, and you're give a lot of people a roof over their heads instead of being homeless.

Seriously, if I had an apartment on the second story of a mall, and below on the first floor were coffee shops, a Japanese 7-Eleven, a mini-mart, and various small indie eateries, I'd be extremely content.

[lissa_quon]

I swear I've seen photos of places claiming to be this. Google tells me Rhode Island did this with their historic shopping mall. It's very tiny living. But alas it seems to be a one time only concept.

Shame it's only one time

[roguefankc]

I know the mall you're talking about in Rhode Island: it's the Providence Arcade Mall. And yes, that's where I bet Russell got the idea.

Think about it: if we converted all the dead malls into apartments, think of how many people could have housing and how it could really help the tiny home movement. As well as bring life and business into the area and neighborhood.

Who knows? Given the housing crisis, maybe more and more malls may follow suit.

[superfangirl1]

I want that business suit dog as a teddy bear. It is so adorable. The cult of Scooby Doo. Scooby Dooby doo. Okay not really. But that just my ultimate reality imagination.