UPDATE: Particles and Galaxies Comics

Ballyhoo Stories is back with four online comics on the theme "Particles and Galaxies": In Maris Wicks "Coping with Death" a young man confronts Death with his fists; Shawn Cheng lets us in on the thoughts of an astronaut before take off in "Countdown"; in Matthew Bernier's "Antoine" a crashed fighter pilot is confronted by both the immense and the miniscule; and Claudia Dávila's "The Grass Seed" reveals the fuel behind the entire universe.

Read what PopMatters calls "an eclectic mix of imagination and talent, with the quirky featured as prominently as the poignant" at ballyhoostories.com.