Alright! Hi! Welcome back to the liveblog – who’s ready for the next Arc? 😀

Which is calllllled… *turns page* Infestation! Ooh, that’s a good one. I should’ve thought of that when I was asked about titles we might see in the future.

So what does that mean?

I’m inclined to think that the Infestation is the Slaughterhouse Nine, deadly vermin infesting the city of Brockton Bay. Granted, infestations usually carry connotations of much greater numbers, but with these vermin it seems like eight is more than enough to wreak some havoc.

That said, maybe there will be a new threat involving great numbers, to be dealt with before the Undersiders’ inevitable run-in with the Slaughterhouse Nine?

I guess there’s only one way to find out… Well, no, but the other ones are frowned upon on this blog.

I don’t think I know enough to meaningfully speculate on what we’ll be doing in this specific chapter (tends to be that way for x.1 chapters), so let’s just dive into it and see!