What prevents you from finishing your life's work? Josh Bayer finds a manuscript of an unfinished play inside his deceased father's desk. The play tells the story of Josh's mother's early death (age 37) and his father's struggle with single parenthood. When he attempts to adapt the play into comics, it triggers a series of personal crises. Bayer's limitations and futile ambitions are brought into sharp relief as he grapples with an estranged, unknowable parent and the play's frustrating lack of resolution. Humans worship lore, myth, and fables, but many people's creative dreams become abandoned. Why? Bayer's inky line, tangled textures, and kaleidoscopic color boldly fuse on the page into comic book semiotics, flights of grandeur, and tangents inside tangents. Josh Bayer stitches scattered memories into surrealistic episodes permeated with dream logic. Unended is a Promethean quest to excavate the creative fire hidden inside us.

Optic City, the 1980s. A frightened orphan, a city on fire, and a glimmer of light spraying from the switchblade of a golden warrior emerging from a legion of scum. Time and space itself will melt around you as you ingest the superhero crossover event of the century in Season 2 of Samuel and Josh Bayer's All Time Comics universe: ZEROSIS DEATHSCAPE. The heroes: Justice, Crime Destroyer, Bullwhip, Atlas! The villains: DLST Killer, Rain God, Beggar, Zerosis! And who are Red Maniac and Time Vampire Scientist? Where do their loyalties lie? Who is this strange alien on a faraway planet a trillion dimensions, light years and time zones removed from our own? What is this power cube of mysterious origin, containing power of infinite magnitude? What is Atlas's friend Toby Whey doing, exactly? Cartoonists Josh Bayer (Theth, Suspect Device) and Josh Simmons (Black River, Flayed Corpse) team up with bronze age legend Trevor Von Eeden (co-creator of Black Lightning!). Includes contributions from Gabrielle Bell, Ken Landgraf, Julia Gfrorer, Benjamin Marra and Thomas Toye, and brain-scalding colors by Dan Lee.