Primordial by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino is an alternate Cold War mini-series about two monkeys, Able and Mrs. Baker, and Laika, everyone's favorite space dog. A signal from space is discovered which deflects the Cold War from celestial posturing to more terrestrial endeavors. Before the end, however, two monkeys and a dog, who is of course Laika, have been launched into space. It is not clear what the space trio encounter, perhaps because they are animals and respond accordingly, or perhaps because it is alien and no terrestrial being could comprehend it. This is not a story, however, about an alternate history without the space program, or a story about the fallout from animal-alien contact, but rather a reflection of the strangeness of the universe, how wonderfully and terribly all things have been made.
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