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Looks like a glossy magazine scan. Left side is a watercolor illustration of Appleman walking along a colorful path. On the right is a game screenshot of Appleman standing in an empty room, with an ingame Textbox that says NOTHING HERE.

Looks like scan of a grainy pamphlet with a video game screenshot. The shot depicts a room that is empty except for an open box, a bare lightbulb, and a manacle chained to the wall. A pop up over the box says NOTHING. In the lower left is a portrait of the apple man’s face. Text below the screenshot: Whatever you thought was going to happen is cancelled and… the text continues but is cut off by the crop

Looks like a pamphlet scan of a monochrome blue game screenshot. A little apple man in a room with 2 clocks and an empty throne. In game text says “Looks like no one’s here.”

grayscale newsprint looking comic panel (first of four) triangle shaped character and Diamond shaped character are in a grassy field. Dead trees are nearby. A white road connects to a white building with a black roof. The front of the building as a capital letter M and a skull painted on it Triangle says: A MAN BORN TO KILL PROBABLY LIVES IN THE MORGUE Diamond says: HE WILL WANT TO BE NEAR DEAD BODIES

triangle and Diamond are in a long white hallway that stretches to a distant vanishing point. There are no doors or other features except for two rectangular arches bracing the hall. The nearest one has the word Death inscribed on it in large letters. Triangle says: HE’S RIGHT DOWN THIS HALLWAY, I BET Diamond says: LET’S GO!

This page is entirely black except for triangle and their word balooon. Triangle says: ISN’T IT FUN TO IMAGINE WHAT MIGHT BE AT THE HALLWAY’S END?

Another page that is solid black, except for a white stamp in the middle. The upper left box on the stamp contains a circular face with skull like feathers. Below it is a rectangular box containing concentric rectangles. The right side contains a drawing of triangle character saying: I WONDER WHERE I AM!!

A comic page that looks like gray marble inset with CRT television. A very white newswoman on screen sits at a gray marble desk with papers in front of her. A 777 bug is burned into the lower left. She says: More bad news for dog owners: a ringing bell marks the start of JACKAL SEASON. Plus, jackals are here! We’ll take a look at how you and your family can meet them as soon as possible.

looks like a photo of a crt screen. Displays a drawing that looks like a weird game. The upper left square is a white room with a door in the wall. A woman and a man with a triangular head are walking towards the door. The upper right square contains concentric squares. In the center is a black square with a drawing of a white hand in it. In the lower left is a white infinity symbol, or a mask for glaring eyes. It is ambiguous. The lower right square is a white box containing writing that says: “this way.”

Looks like a photo of a crt screen displaying a blocky old computer game, but the graphics are hand drawn. A little man is walking on a plane of grass in darkness towards a glowing white house. It looks like someone has drawn on the glass screen of the tv with ink. There is a sinister smiling face in the upper left. A large head with dark eyes is emerging from the ground in front of the house. It’s positioned in such a way that the house door looks like a gaping mouth.

A page that looks like a scan from an old game magazine. A circular graphic contains a watercolor illustration of an enthusiastic wormlike dinosaur thing with a smiling yellow star and a worried looking blue diamond. A box in the lower half contains an illustration of a treasure box with a funny face, decorated with white crosses. In front of it are a green potion, a gold coin, and a silver key. There are also 2 game screenshots. One is of a title screen, featuring the dinosaur like worm, and one is of the same character standing in a little stonework house before a blue spheroid face, which is speaking. The text on the page is one continuous statement and does not relate to the images. It says: Header: Wondering how young I’ll die. Featured text, next to round illustration: We now take it as granted that the western empires will collapse. Title screen screenshot: In a real sense, it has already happened. House and dialog screenshot: we were born into a dead world. Text below screenshots: and now decay begins. We, having prepared all our lives for a future that can never arrive, feel lost. We must go on living. But what will life be, and how long can it last? America has become a nation of endless plagues

Single panel comic that looks kinda like it’s on newsprint. Triangle shaped character talks to Diamond shaped character, saying: “He said he was born to kill. That it’s all his hands were made for.”

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A 4 panel grayscale comic strip In the upper margin is the title “Concrete Beach” on the left and a stylized crown logo on the right. Panel 1: narration: Got off work at the Cigarette King Image: a squat 1960s style grocery store with a brick and concrete facade. Illustrated advertisements for “Ribeye” and cigarettes are drawn on the windows. A shopping cart is in the middle of the empty parking lot. There are palm trees rising behind the building and a palm frond on the ground Panel 2: narration: Can’t drive into the ocean (long line) Image: the ocean stretches to the horizon. A long pier stretches into the ocean. A line of cars are waiting their turn to drive of it. One is splashing into the water, nose first. Panel 3: narration: There is a place 24 hrs You are welcome Image: power lines run behind a squat building with dark windows and a dark roof. There is a fish logo over the door. A large round sign on a pole says “Captain’s Table.” There is an image of an anchor in the center of the sign. Panel 4: narration : A butterflied fish reveals a secret face. Image: POV sitting at a booth in a restaurant. The walls ads wood paneled. There are condiments on the table, and a knife and fork. There is a plate on the table containing a fish meal. The fish is split down the middle. The split dish has strange eyes and a small mouth inside it, as if it was a human face. A speech balloon is coming from the fish, but the balloon only says “speaking” in parentheses. We do not know what the fish is saying.

grayscale screenshot of video game screen. it's surrounded by a dark vignette, the screen is curved and dithered for a CRT look. several elements hover with drop shadow over a gray field. on the left is a static scene depicting an office. there is a desk with a computer terminal, open planner, and corded phone. some kind of adventure game looking scene is on the monitor. the wall of the office is a huge window overlooking a city's downtown and waterfront. in the upper right, an element reads "1992 Q1." a text box accompanied by a square portrait of a dark haired, smiling young man says: "I'm Ollie, your assistant!"

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Grayscale drawing of Cell’s ship flying in space at night. It’s Diamond shaped with a black triangle for a view winds and two hand like bits hovering at its sides. Below it stretches the gray, streetlit ribbon of the Dendroid highway, fixed in place by vague means (various support structures appear in silhouette.) A ringed planet is visible in then distance. A little bean-shaped car drives on the highway, illuminating it with its headlights. Text at the top of the page says: Night Drivin’

A grayscale comic page Depicts Cell’s Diamond shaped ship splitting bits off its side, which flip adoond to become stubby, floating mechanical hands. A figure on video in the upper right, identified as CCC, says “Cell, the client’s waitin’.” A text box says: The combat of space is fast and deadly. At the end of the transformation, Cell’s ship is approached by a sphere shaped craft with a weird, plain face and little arms carrying pistols of some kind. A caption under it reads “Burglar Class” A more fully rendered panel at the bottom of the page depicts Cell’s ship, in the dark of space, physically holding off one burglar class ship with one hand while the other hand blasts a second burglar class ship with a projectile emitted from its palm.

dendroid highway 8

Cell in cool cloven hoofed space armor against an abstract background next to a little white spherical person with a blank expression and red boots

Second Half of a 12 panel grayscale comic page Panel 7: Inside the ship’s empty cockpit. We see the Highway through its angular windshield. It has a steering wheel and pedals, like a car. A computer terminal displays a map, illuminating the dash. Panel 8: Some kind of workshop. Cell’s armor stands in an alcove, hooked up to tubes. A terminal above it shows a progress bar. Tools and a drum of flammable liquid are in the foreground. Down a hall, a figure sits on the floor in a steaming shower. Panel 9: Cell sits under the shower spray, nude. Long hair covers her face. Her legs are hairy, she’s fat. Panel 10: Close on Cell lighting a joint. Panel 11: In bed, still nude, cell exhales smoke. On a TV behind her, a cartoon dinosaur gives a news report about "Skeletonization" Panel 12: Cell flops onto her back, taking another drag. A vent above her sucks up the smoke. The TV now displays a commercial: text says Come to Apple Land. A little cartoon clown man gestures towards a landscape of cartoon hills, dotted with lakes, forests, and little castle towers.

Dendroid Highway 7b

First half of a 12 panel grayscale comic page Panel 1: solid black Panel 2: A long ribbon of road, dotted with streetlights, stretches through dark, starry space. It seems in places to be supported by large clamps or chunks of asteroid. An offramp connects to it. An interstate road sign labels every direction of road as the Dendroid Highway Panel 3: The Highway continues over another rocky meteorite surface. More strange industrial structures are attached to it, for some reason. In the distance, a trapezoidal building stands on floating rock. It is dark, and a hole is blown in its side. Panel 4: Yet more of the Highway. This stretch passes a roadside stop identified by billboard as the Red Eye Inn. It’s a triangular building; the flat, road-facing roof has lettering on it that says FUEL, FOOD, MEDICAL. A covered structure resembling a gas fueling station is next to it. The Inn is also dark, and also has a hole blown in it. Panel 5: Another stretch of Highway, this one supported by massive steel poles connected to asteroids below. A dark, circular sign advertises something called BUG HULL. It has a boxy bug face logo. Cell’s Diamond-shaped ship is flying down this road. Panel 6: Closer on the ship as it speeds down the road.

Dendroid Highway 7a

Grayscale comic panel: Triangle shaped character and Diamond shaped character are on a road loading to a church by a dark lake. Trees and tufts of grass are seen in the area. The rendering of this and the next 3 panels is reminiscent of strange, antiquated game graphics Triangle says: GO TO CHURCH.

Inside the church. There are alcoves on the walls containing unlit candles and an altar in the back, beneath a giant cross. Triangle and Diamond stand in the foreground. Triangle says: BENEDICTION TIME.

Rumble, rumble: the whole church interior has titled. Triangle and Diamond are surprised. Diamond says: CHURCH IS MOVING? In the upper left, a dropshadowed window labeled MOVEMENT PHASE has appeared. It depicts a grid reminiscent of the scene in the first panel. The church is sliding to the west, of its foundation and into the lake.

The titled church is now filled with dark water. Triangle and Diamond are up to their noses in water. Text like a status update of error message covers the top of the panel. It says WET!! WET!! WET!! WET!! WET!!

4 panel grayscale comic. Panel 1: Close up of Cell’s armored hand holding an ordinary set of keys. She presses a button on a black fob, which emits a chirpy “BE-BO” Panel 2: A previously unseen door in the ship unfolds itself, revealing an entrance ramp and tunnel with a pneumatic PSSSH. Panel 3: Cell, climbing the ramp and entering the tunnel, glances back at the brutal and alien structure behind her. Panel 4: Close on cell. The structure is reflected in her visor. “Cool guys,” she says.

Dendroid Highway 6

4 panel black and white comic Panel 1: Cell, wearing armor, uses her suit’s flashlight to see while ascending a large, dark stairwell. Some kind of cube-headed lizard crawls on the wall. A tentacled jelly sits on a step above. Panel 2: A dark chamber with carved monster faces over a big mechanical door. Light pours into the room as Cell opens it, using an adjacent panel, and the doors slide open with a KSSsH of escaping air. A rocky landscape and the black sky of space are visible beyond, as is a diamond shaped spaceship. Panel 3: Cell, now outside, glances around as she walks to the ship. Panel 4: Cell has stopped in the ship’s shadow. She retrieves something from an unseen pocket.

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Diamond and triangle are in a plain room with a black door. There is a circular symbol on the door. Diamond says: I found a dead body but I will not tell you where.

Triangle says: Tell me…

The two smile in silence

The two smile in silence

black and white comic panel a triangle shaped person stands before a door in a long hallway. a strange portrait is on the wall. triangle says: I will search the story

the storage interior is a plain rectangle drawn in no perspective. darkness fills the rest of the frame. the top of the rectangle says STORAGE. there are five items inside: a claw hammer, a length of coiled rope, a saw, a baseball, and a jug of some liquid triangle says: The storage is full of tools and equipment.

triangle stands still in the same space. a pensive look is on their face.

triangle is now mid-exit from the storage, disappearing into the darkness. they say: Time to leave.

A black and white panel. A triangle shaped person and diamond shaped person in a bare room. Triangle: speaking a dialog window with a drop shadow titled wild mushroom. It contains a list of three mushrooms with illustrations and captions. Mushroom 1: Looks like button mushroom. Description: “It’s round.” Mushroom 2: a chanterelle maybe. Description: “The gentle delicious one.” Mushroom 3: something lumpy. Is this a truffle? I don’t know. Description: “Get wild.” In response, Diamond character says: Oh?

A black and white comic The first two panels, as on the prior page, are framed by lumpy cables which sprout from the talking skull Panel 1: Skull, narrating: All the wandering ones, like curious children, are my company. In the illustration, a dog with a pyramid head is lying in a rocky chamber, in front of a high tech circular door. Pipes and cables connect to the door from somewhere off panel. Panel 2: Skull, narrating: Their brief lives are pieces of my own. In the panel, a spiky turtle thing eats a carrot on a floating platform over a deep rocky shaft, which contains other floating platforms. Panel 3: Back to the scene of the armored figure, Cell, sitting opposite the Skull, which is set into the wall. Cell: That’s really nice. Skull: Yes. Panel 4: Cell rises from the floor. Cell: Well, I should probably go. Skull: as you will. Panel 5: Cell turns as she’s exiting. Cell: Some guys paid me to scope this place out. Probably looters. Can you take care of yourself if they swing by? Panel 6: Close on the Skull. Skull: They would be devoured.

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A grayscale comic framed by lumpy wires connected to copies of the talking skull from the previous comic. Panel 1: A dark trapezoidal fortress on an asteroid chunk in space. Pipes and shit stick out from the bottom of the asteroid. Talking skull (narrating): Creators of structure are long gone. I remain in its system and observe its inhabitants. Panel 2: close on centipede thing with a pyramid growing out of its head. it crawls and drools on a carved stone octagonal face. A huge open shaft stretches out behind it. Narration: “Crawlers…” Panel 3: A thing like a six legged turkey carcass with a square mouth hole climbs a spire in a dark, spire-filled place. Another thing like it can also be seen climbing in the background. Narration: “Climbers…” Panel 4: A thing with a hexagonal body, two thick legs, and some kind of sensory arm walks through a cavern. Jutting from the hexagon is an elephantine face, with trunk. Narration: “Trundlers…” Panel 5: A four winged flying bug swoops though the dark. Boxy structures can be seen on the ground and hanging from somewhere far above. The bug’s thin beak is open, revealing a tongue and a set of humanlike teeth. Narration: “Fliers…”

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A black and white comic Panel 1: darkness Panel 2: An armored figure (Cell,) sits by a big skull set into an alcove. The skull is connected to wires and surrounded by vaguely technological things. A bottle, resembling a liquor bottle, sits against the wall, and some of the liquid drips from the skull’s mouth. Cell says: You do ok down here? Panel 3: Close up on the skull. It says: I run throughout the entire structure. This is one of my nodes. In a sense I am not here, but everywhere. My biological components are self-sustaining. And I have never known boredom. Panel 4: Back to Cell sitting across from the skull. The skull says: If that’s what you’re wondering. Panel 5: Close up on Cell, nodding. Cell says: Glad to hear that. I know these situations can be rough. Panel 6: Back to the wider shot. The skull says: Oh, I know. Panel 7: The skull says: You and I are blessed.

A black and white comic Panel 1: An armored figure, Cell, shines a wrist mounted light down a strange corridor. The environs are a mix of organic rock and sci fi tech Cell says: This place goes on and on Panel 2: The beam of light begins to pass over a large spiky spider Panel 3: The Beam settles on the spider. Panel 4: Hold on the illuminated spider. Cell, off panel, says: More of these spider guys. Panel 5:Cell has sat down next to the spider. She says: What’s up? Panel 6: Close up on the spider, face. It has many eyes and a mouthful of human like teeth. Cell, off panel, says: You’ve got human-like teeth, huh? Panel 7: Cell is startled as a large carved skull in an alcove behind her speaks. It says: They are innocent babes, the little scurriers. Cell says: You talk! Panel 8: Cell offers the giant skull a bottle of dark liquid. She says: Want some of this? The skull says Yes.

A giant empty hall with a huge rotary phone at its center. A mural on the back wall is labeled COMMUNICATIONS and depicts methods of communication through the eras

A character with an inexpressive face walks on the sidewalk in a foreboding neighborhood

2 silly drawings of space station mechs with smiling spherical heads. The first one looks like a 60s robot with a domed city in its torso. The second one has the same basic shape but is covered with more detail, domed protrusion, panel lines and little windows.