Dust in the Wind – The song Dust in the Wind by Kansas has a been on my mind recently. So too is a short passage by Carl Sagan, “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.” Hence the comic, it is both pilferage and homage, simultaneously theft and imitation. Of course it is not Stoke doing this act, but I. Stoke has never heard of such music, the beautiful lyrics therein, nor the science writer’s profound wisdom. Stoke is only saying what he believes of the Nihileafs, of existence itself. Everything is nothing more than molecules moving about subject to the immutable laws of nature. If Stoke had a conversation with Mother Nature, I imagine Stoke would say something like this, “I don’t mind that we are nothing more than matter being battered about by forces beyond our control, but did you have to make us thinking too.” Thinking dust, that is all we are and ever will be. – Zachary