Mother Russia

In the grim, alternate-history landscape of Mother Russia, writer and artist Dave Chisholm imagines a Soviet Union that never fell, surviving into the 1980s as a brutal, paranoid superpower. Published by FUBAR Press beginning in 2015, this three-issue series follows a disgraced cosmonaut who uncovers a terrifying secret lurking within the Kremlin's space program. Chisholm’s stark, expressionistic art and dense, atmospheric storytelling craft a Cold War nightmare that feels both historically grounded and eerily speculative. It’s a taut, self-contained thriller that matters for its singular vision of a Russia that never thawed.