Failure to Launch

Editor Kel McDonald has been working in comics for over a decade—most of that time has been spent on their webcomic Sorcery 101. More recently, they have organized the “Cautionary Fables and Fairytales” anthology series while contributing to other anthologies like Dark Horse Presents, Smut Peddler, and Sleep of Reason. They’ve also worked on Buffy: The High School Years and recently finished a creator-owned series, Misfits of Avalon, and the Eisner-nominated Stone King. Kel is currently working on the self-published series, The City Between. Their work can be found at kelmcdonald.com.

"The dizzying breadth of theories explored here is itself an achievement, sure to lead readers down a rabbit hole of further study. Incredibly fascinating while still being firmly grounded in realistic human concerns." — BOOKLIST Starred Review"Incisive critiques of capitalism, technology, inequality, and the limits of human ingenuity." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"If you like reading about big ideas and outsized dreams—and particularly if you enjoy a bit of schadenfreude—this one is worth checking out." — GEEK DAD

• Bagels in Space — Helen GreethamBirth — Blonsky — Dani Coleman & Einar V. MássonCGIdol — Victor Santiago & Bolu OriowoDead Calls — Nakata "knack" Whittle & Sam "sunnyshea" RobertsDead-Eyed — Keeper & HamiltonDeath of a PC Repair Shop — E. AltmanThe Digesting Duck — CS Garcia MartinezThe First Union — Harry "Hbomberguy" Brewis & SkutchHemispheres — Violet KitchenThe Indestructible Bicycle — Erica ErikssonLead Balloon — Katie TiedrichLittle Islands — Blue DelliquantiLost Dogs — Iris JayMagic City, All of Fire — Evan DahmMilking It — Colin O'Mahoney & Mari RolinNinit'i, or The End — Kelci D CrawfordOne Man's Beast, Another Man's Bacon — Triple Dream ComicsThe Panopticon — Shannon SaarThe Paradise within Reach of All Men — Ryan North & Kel McDonaldThe Pasilinic Sympathetic Compass — Maddi Gonzalez & Alice WoodsPneumatic Tube to Nowhere — Cat ParraPoma — Ashley HasfalThe Rain-Making Machine — Lore VicenteRats! Rats! Rats! — Ryan Estrada & Aaron CruzThe Second Extinction of the Pyrenean Ibex — Erin RoseberryTo Be Believed to Be Seen — Tuisku H.The Unfinished Wind Power Revolution — Matthew R Francis & Maki NaroWhat Happens at Midnight? — Colton FoxWhen Do We Get Our Star Trek Future? — Jonathan DaltonThe World Turns — Barbara MazziZigurats — André Valenté