This issue contains the continuation of a serialized novel, short fiction, two original comics, and four advertisements for things that do not exist. Between them, something is measured that returns no value.

Your job is to find it and put it on the cover.

The issue is called Value: Null. That is not an error. It is an answer. What happens when the system looks for something and finds a space where the data should be? What does absence look like when the architecture still expects a response?

Front cover, spine, back cover — one continuous surface. What you make of that is yours.

— R.H.