Summary

Comic 50 – This single-page layout is primarily drawn in charcoal shades of gray and black, but there is also red, drawn in as blood from the hand of a wounded man being held up by another. Both are naked and well-muscled, as are all the men in the bottom panel, swimming in the blood that falls from the first man’s hand. Poetic, rhyming text describes the preciousness of blood, the value of life, and the anticipation of something better. “You’ll see what grows out of this grave” (Comic 50).

Comic 51 – In this single-page, irregularly laid out, vividly colored set of drawings, a pair of super-hero types (one dark and violent, one bright and peaceful) reach for each other and embrace. The bright one has what looks like a halo of light around his head: the dark one has a representation of an eclipsed moon...