A Comic book

by Ana Antadze

for Cru

The Planet Bazillotropus

or

How Kobuto found Their peace

My dear Cru,

I wanted to gift you something, so I asked the sun what that could be, as you get along so well with each other. They told me then this story. It is based on true events, they say. A sad truth. Enjoy it.

With love.

Ana

Once upon a time, there was a planet named Bazillotropus.

There lived small germs.

Kobuto, a germ from Bazillotropus, got one day so hot, that is understood to have a body.

Kobuto got uncertain about everything and stopped.

Everyone was baffled, especially the eldest. Why in Bazzilo’s name do you stop? Germs run, always! Run! Run! Run!

Kobuto obeyed. But it felt unease and had to stop hesitantly now and then.

It was customary in Bazillotropus, that germs ran diligently, without hesitation.

“Swift as the wind” was their slogan, that you could read written over the planet’s gate.

Kobuto ran to the planet’s gate and read the motto of their nation, once again.

“… as the wind”. But their bodies were not air. How in Bazillo’s name could they be as swift as the wind?!

Kobuto got sick from so much doubt and vomited.

Their vomit emitted a special substance, that contained Melatonin, so Kobuto fell asleep.

Kobuto saw something astonishing in sleep. They never had dreamt before.

And now Kobuto dreamt about a place, where germs stood still and did nothing.

Lots of still holding germs. There, Kobuto recognized that something was still moving. The world!

The grasses, the wind, and the light were moving.

Kobuto thought so far, that only they were moving, and the world was holding still. But the dream showed it invert.

Kobuto became friends with the wind.

– You know, we worship you back home.

– Here?

– No, in my real home.

– Phh, real! Don’t make me laugh!

Kobuto left the wind.

They went to the grasses and eavesdropped to their whispers.

The grasses were singing and dancing with their friend, the wind.

Kobuto went afterward to the light. The light was a somewhat pompous being.

-Did you know, that without me, nothing of that you can see could be actualized?

-No.

-Quite so. Aristotle called me the Entelechy of the transparent.

-Aristotle?

-That’s right, my dear.

Kobuto was amused by the light. But as it didn’t seem to stop counting its trophies, Kobuto got tired and almost fell asleep in the sleep.

Kobuto yawned and lay down on the meadow, between the wind, the grass, and the light, and took sunbaths.

Suddenly, a stone fell down and hit Kobuto on the forehead.

Kobuto woke up.

They were surrounded by other germs, who were running deranged in a circle, bewildered to see Kobuto sleeping.

“What a shame!” called the germ mayor. “A germ that rests! No, even sleeps!”

Everyone was disturbed. “What are we going to do now?” They were calling.

“Come to peace” Said Kobuto.

The mayor cried out, “Oh no! Did you hear him? She has gotten mad!”

They took Kobuto and carried them to the Bazillothek.

The Bazillothek was the most horrendous establishment in the whole Bazzilotropus. There, disobedient germs were turned to copper. That copper served Bazillotropus as military equipment.

Kobuto heard shrill cries of life threatened germs, who, just like them, had landed in the establishment.

Kobuto was afraid. Now they could do nothing but rest.

They made copper out of Kobuto and from the copper they crafted pistol bullets for the wars of Bazillotropus. Kobuto’s will for peace must have been very strong. For as, after decades, that bullet was fired in a military operation on planet Vironem, the bullet suddenly stood still. No one was able to move it. This caused so much marvel, that the war, at least for a brief time, was interrupted. Virus Q was this way, able to flee the bullet of death. He is hiding until this day on the planet Baktilis.

Who knows, maybe it was she, who wrote this story?