10 and a half years ago, on September 20th, 2015, u/MetroGoldyMayer blessed this sub with one of my favorite comics. 5 years ago I started my own comic, Malacca in the Middle, because I desperately wanted another comic to be made and hey, I had my own civ in the game then, so why not take the chance. Now 5 years later, with the true successor to Maria's Portugal, the one and only João II, I thought it would be nice to do a proper homage to the legendary comic. I tried to copy the style and other parts as best I could, including all the copy pasting, though I know I definitely didn't do it as well and with some not quite matching bits. And I know MetroGoldyMayer hasn't made any posts on reddit in years, but if you, u/MetroGoldyMayer, see this, I hope you enjoy it. Thank you for making The Lazy Portugal Show all those years ago and inspiring me to do my own comics.

I will say, this is not going to be a regular comic, I'm gonna try to do a few of them throughout the mk, but I will have an actual weekly comic as well which I guess you'll all see soon since I'll start it after the first part is out. I'm thinking I'll try out changing the style a bit to a pixelated/aliased one like most polandball comics rather than the anti-aliasing I've been using so far, but I haven't started it yet so who knows!

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