Guy Fawkes was caught at midnight on 4 November 1605, in a cellar under the throne at Westminster, with a ton and a half of gunpowder. He died in Old Palace Yard on 31 January 1606, a few steps from the building he tried to blow up.

Tonight the country sets off fireworks for him.

Two panels: the bonfire, and the lantern he carried that night, which is in a glass case in Oxford now because the cellar is not.

I keep wanting this to be a story about failing so hard they make you a holiday. It isn't. They killed him and kept the party.

Hand-built in HTML and CSS, screenshot at 1080x1350. Zero generated images. Issue twenty.

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