Just fyi, neither of the links I provided show a direct way to purchase this comic. Still, between the two of them it’ll be easy enough to contact Richard, and I bet he could help you out with that if you’re interested! This comic jumped out at me a bit at SPACE, mostly for the design: there’s an outer sleeve for the comic (which is the cover I used for the sample image, going with the theory that if Richard wanted to keep using the original cover, he would have repeated it on the sleeve), and in this sleeve is a smaller mini comic (Cosmic Zoq #7) that has all of the backgrounds from this comic. I don’t know how much it added to the overall experience, but it was an interesting idea. The comic itself starts off with a wall of text telling the reader what’s going on in this world; the gist is that people are required to work to live, dissension is ruthlessly suppressed, and a group of rebels are trying to get to Southside to be free. This comic follows one of them as he tries to get the word out and stay one step ahead of the police. Richard switches to real world images as our hero gets closer to freedom, which was subtle enough to sneak up on me a bit. The overall art is maybe a little amateurish (open to different opinions, and I always feel like I’ll burst into flames when *I* critique the quality of someone’s art), but I did like his backgrounds and overall scene composition. And, while I can’t talk about, that ending was perfect and caught me completely by surprise. So maybe it’s worth a shot? No price, so I’ll go with my default of $5.
