Avengers of the Wastelands #5

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7 Billion Needles (1/?): Falling Onto One

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7 Billion Needles is loosely derived from Hal Clement's science fiction novel Needle, published in 1950.

Written and drawn by Nobuaki Tadano, it was serialized in Monthly Comic Flapper from April 2008 to March 2010.

Its English release started in September 2010, with the first volume published by Vertical, a Kodonsha USA imprint (that was consolidated back into Kodonsha USA this year).

That began with something falling from space.

The protagonist, alone, looked up at the sky - and saw something loosely describe an S through it.

( ' That's not a shooting star! ' )

A History of Violence, Part 1

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Billionaire Island #1 and #2

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"For a while, the movie theaters were showing these hipster-produced ads that combined a few dubious factoids about the fossil fuel industry with the reassurance that much awesome progress was being made so there was really no need to worry about climate change. Around the same time, I kept seeing these articles about billionaires buying secret end-of-days bunkers in New Zealand or their own remote private islands, some of whom had made their billions from the fossil fuel industry. So it seemed like they were trying to pile into the lifeboats of the Titanic before the rest of us could make up our mind on whether the boat was sinking. But, in a more general sense, it’s about the inevitable result of massive economic inequality. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how letting a few people take all the world’s resources and then not spend any of it fixing the world’s problems will end in disaster for the rest of us."

- Mark Russell


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