The Little Aimless Library: The Cosmic Book by various
I know, I know. I said literally one Little Aimless Library ago that I wasn't gonna cover serialized comics, and then I come back with a standard magazine-sized floppy with “issue one” right on the cover. This sucker isn't a fragment of an ongoing story, though: it's an anthology comic that ran for all of one issue. It ran me four bucks and costs only a little more online, so it's not like I'm asking much of anyone I might inspire to seek it out. All my qualms about comics are void in this case. And how could I not talk about something with this cover art? Jesus Christ, it's a thing of beauty. Artist and co-editor Pat Boyette didn't have to go half this hard; remember, this is issue one of an unproven comic in an unpopular genre from a publisher who seem to have barely existed. There are plenty of reasons to wish industrial society had never progressed past its sunny optimism phase, and for me art like this is a big one. I miss when space felt like our glor...