Biosphere—The Remake

This time the test is Earth’s own ecological future.

By Esther Pearl Watson
March 7, 2016

Esther Pearl Watson teaches at ArtCenter College of Design. She is the author of the comics Unlovable, published by Bust and Fantagraphics, and Blood Lady Commandos, on Vice.com.

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