Failure to launch : a tour of ill-fated futures / edited by Kel McDonald ; cover artist, Roderick Contance ; proofreaders, Abby Lehrke & Matt Sheridan ; publisher, editor-in-chief, C. Spike Trotman ; art director, Matt Sheridan ; print technician, additional design, Hye Mardikian.
Zigurats / by Andř Valente. Birth by Blonsky / by Dani Colman and Einar V. M̀sson -- CGIdol / by Victor Santiago and Bolu Oriowo -- Dead Calls / by Nakata "Knack" Whittle and Sam "SunnyShea" Roberts -- Dead Eyed / by Erin Keepers and Fend Hamilton -- Death of a PC Repair Shop / by E. Altman -- Hemispheres / by Violet Kitchen -- Indestructible Bicycle / by Rowan Oats -- Lead Balloon / by Katie Tiedrich -- Little Islands / by Blue Delliquanti -- Lost Dogs / by Iris Jay -- Magic City, All of Fire / by Evan Dahm -- Milking It / by Colin O'Mahoney and Mari Rolin -- Ninit'i or The End / by Kelci D. Crawford -- One Man's Beast, Another Man's Bacon / by Triple Dream Comics -- The Panopticon / by Shannon Saar -- Pneumatic Tube to Nowhere / by Cat Parra -- Poma / by Ashley Hasfal -- Rats / by Ryan Estrada & Aar̤n Cruz -- When Do We Get Our Star Trek Future / by J. Dalton -- The Digesting Duck / by C.S. Garcia Martinez -- The First Union / by Harry "Hbomberguy" Brewis and Skutch -- The First Wind-Power Revolution / by Matthew R Francis and Maki Naro -- The Paradise Within Reach of All Men / by Ryan North and Kel McDonald -- The Pasilalinic Sympathetic Compass / by Maddi Gonzalez and Alice Woods -- The Rain-Making Machine / by Lore Vicente -- The Second Extinction of the Pyrenean Ibex / by Erin Roseberry -- The World Turns / by Barbara Mazzi -- To Be Believed to Be Seen / by Tuisku H. -- What Happens at Midnight? / by Colton Fox -- Zigurats / by Andř Valente.
Summary:
A collection of short comics relating some of history's most notable failures, mistakes, botched inventions, and unfulfilled dreams.--Publisher. "History is often written by the winners... but now, the award-winning independent publisher Iron Circus is jumping through the cracks in history to spotlight those who didn't let failure stop their dreams. FAILURE TO LAUNCH: A TOUR OF ILL-FATED FUTURES is a light-hearted, educational tour of (so far!) unrealized technological and societal advances promised in years past, but which never came to be. FAILURE TO LAUNCH tells the tales of what could have been, but wasn't: planned utopias in space, wild inventions, attempts to improve society, robot pets, and predictions of Armageddon. With over 300 pages of full color comics, this collection of disasters explores a wide variety of hopes and dreams falling to pieces." -- Provided by publisher.
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