Spectra Issue 2: Spectra's Power!
So what is Miss Alignment planning to do with Spectra? How will she try and take over the world? How are Spectra and the gang doing now that they know about Spectra's power? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this sequel to our popular comic Spectra's Power.

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The Fifth Posulate
By Jason Socrates Bardi
Many mathematicians since the time of Euclid attempted to solve a seemingly simple problem about parallel lines without success. Yet the success of their failures would reveal a whole new geometry and description of space and time.

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