The Last Rose

What a terrible thing Earth’s last bit of beauty would be. This strip was inspired in part by Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’, particularly the passages that talk about the Man’s dreams of a world long gone.

“He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of langour and death.”

But his convictions couldn’t save him from dreams of the fragile beauty that existed by the grace of chance alone, before the world entered its glaucomic dusk.