Episode 1: Two Plus Two Equals Five

by Colin O'Boyle, Samantha Barrett (Editor), Kelley Crews (Illustrator)

One day, a student of Professor Jack Baling brings in an impossible a working perpetual motion machine. As that's the engineering equivalent of proving that two plus two equals five, Jack takes the machine home to study it. Despite his best efforts, however, he can't figure out how it works. Not only that, his intense scrutiny of the Machine That Should Not Be pushes him over the edge between genius and crazy. He emerges from the other side a mad scientist (complete with a ray gun he cobbled together out of parts from his TV, microwave, and his wife’s hair dryer). As it turns out, madness and disintegrator rays don’t go well together.

53 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 29, 2012