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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

Vintage cassette tape and analog recording equipment
TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

Nothing happened. That is exactly what it wants you to think.

Comic Strip: The Fly Applies for a Mortgage

Four panels. One insect. Zero acceptable proof of income.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

PANEL 1: A fly enters a bank carrying a tiny folder.

LOAN OFFICER: Occupation?

FLY: Mostly windows.

PANEL 2:

LOAN OFFICER: Annual income?

FLY: Define income.

PANEL 3:

LOAN OFFICER: Do you have collateral?

The fly places half a raisin on the desk.

PANEL 4:

The loan officer stamps the application PRE-APPROVED.

CAPTION: Housing market remains irrational.

Portrait artwork for SAM ROOK

SAM ROOK

Sam Rook handles drawings, visual crimes, accidental comics, and any image that looks like it survived the copier.

Push something. The magazine is poorly supervised.

PUSH THE WEIRD BUTTON

A small bureaucrat somewhere just stamped APPROVED FOR NONSENSE.

MORE BROKEN ZINEBAD IDEA ARCADEODDITIES

ASK THE EDITOR A QUESTION

NO.

BROKEN ZINESOME THINGS SHOULDN’T BE FIXED.

DO NOT PRESS

YOU FOUND THE FOOTER. PLEASE LEAVE QUIETLY.