If you’re a connoisseur of the history of Half-Life’s long, storied modification scene, you might be familiar with the name Koumei Satou. The gentleman programmer from Japan is famed in certain circles for his mind bending modification project Peaces Like Us and producing a lion share’s of the work on the Sweet Half-Life, an epic project shot through with science-fiction anime references and overtones.

What you might not know about this creator is that his first dream was to become a manga author. You wouldn’t be blamed for not knowing that he continues the hobby on his personal website, Weird Comic Art, with his ongoing project, The Mysterious Man of Attenborough. Colony Drop has gotten the chance to show you this comic’s English translation in a weekly feature as produced by friend Alan aka “Professor Scissors.”

All of Satou’s work features a sharp dichotomy between the “rational” world and a surrealist alternate dimension running parallel. It isn’t your run-of-the-mill alternate dimension: instead of chaos, near-bucolic austerity rules in what has been referred to “Another World,” a place where lonely spotless structures lay abandoned in vast expanses, populated only by levitating pieces of geometry and ghosts who bleed. It is in this other world or one much like it that The Mysterious Man of Attenborough takes place.

Tune in next week, kids!