Root Hog: The Vezna Census — a weekly serial by Abner MacGuffin
The Vezna Census
A weekly serial in ten chapters · New chapters Sundays · Free
THE COUNT: 16% · AS OF CHAPTER 2
THE ROOT HOGTheme song · loops
The chapters
1 · Seventeen Percent
Sunday, September 6, 2026 · The count: 17%
The argument, the notebook, the taxonomy — and a departure.
Read Chapter 1
2 · The Border
Sunday, September 13, 2026 · The count: 16%
No exit stamp. The Stamp Office is in inventory. The fog goes unrecorded.
Read Chapter 203
The Thumb
Market Row. An egg-seller, a fine, and the record’s first correction.
SEP 20Market Row. An egg-seller, a fine, and the record’s first correction.
04
Ballast
The Docks. What a ledger calls the people it carries free.
SEP 27The Docks. What a ledger calls the people it carries free.
05
Room 14
Inside the Complex, where his own file is being walked slowly.
OCT 4Inside the Complex, where his own file is being walked slowly.
06
The Traveling Woman
Cards, a costly testimony, and a name like a disclaimer.
OCT 11Cards, a costly testimony, and a name like a disclaimer.
07
A Name, Any Name
Widow’s Lane. An informer needs a name. He has one.
OCT 18Widow’s Lane. An informer needs a name. He has one.
08
The Man Who Agrees
Dinner with the only man in Vezna who believes Root completely.
OCT 25Dinner with the only man in Vezna who believes Root completely.
09
Full Freight
The honest path, priced. The library, sold.
NOV 1The honest path, priced. The library, sold.
10
The Signature
An office that no longer exists signs its name.
NOV 8An office that no longer exists signs its name.
Beyond the census
The format demoChapter 1 in the tap-to-turn, phone-first format the comic will use.The Field CensusFile the citizens of Vezna yourself, 1 to 10.The Daily SampleOne moral micro-dilemma a day. Root and Tess disagree.
For the newly arrived: he is counting the good people. The current figure is above. He is stuck in Vezna. These facts are related.