Heavy Metal Magazine #9

In the snow-laden woods of Krolówka, Poland, a gathering of Soviet and Eastern European apparatchiks convenes for a hunting party, their rifles cold and their memories heavier. As the hunt begins, each man recounts a personal tale shaped by the shadow of Vassili Alexandrovitch Tchevtchenko, weaving a web of past betrayals, lost ideals, and the quiet cost of loyalty to a crumbling regime.

In "null," a vast plain swallows endless buses that merge into a new, shifting landscape, their roofs forming a surreal terrain where fresh buses now roll—uncharted, unexplained, and moving toward an unknown horizon.