"During the first century of the republic, two modes of communication at a distance - telecommunications - were etched into lands inhabited by Native Americans; contested by rival European powers; and occupied by the United States. Both telecommunications systems supported this expanding US territorial empire but, despite this overarching commonality, they branched apart in other ways. One network was owned by the state and the other by capital, and the two branches of the telecommunications system developed disparate rate structures, patterns of access, and social and institutional relationships. During the decades after the Civil War their divergence became politically charged. Would one model prevail over the other? Going forward, would it be the government Post Office or the corporate telegraph that set the terms of telecommunications development? The Post Office was the nation's originating system for communication at a distance. Both before and long after it was elevated to a cabinet department in 1829, furthermore, the Post Office was by far the largest unit of the central state. In 1831, the nation's 8700 postmasters comprised three-quarters of federal civilian employment; half a century later (excluding temporary postal employees and ordinary and railway mail clerks and letter carriers), some 50,000 postmasters accounted for perhaps one-third of all civilian employees in the executive branch. Though its relative weight as a government employer diminished after this, its workforce continued to swell. During the last two antebellum decades, meanwhile, an emergent technology - the electrical telegraph - was passed quickly from the federal government to private capital. The two systems' institutional identities immediately began to contrast in other ways"--

The dramatic crossover of the Muse continues. The evil Mercury has now teleported the 10th Muse and Badger to New Port City, home to the villainous Bomb Queen. The Bomb Queen quickly dispatches with the Badger and the now de powered Muse, then kidnaps Mercury to join her nefarious minion army.

The 10th Muse teams up with Mike Baron’s fan favorite “The Badger.” When the time stream is weakened, The10th Muse is thrust into a dark future where Mt. Olympus has been destroyed, and the pantheon of the Gods is now hunted. There she fights a twisted version of Mercury. In the heat of battle, the teleporting Mercury loses control of his power, and transports them to the world of “The Badger.”. Also featuring Bomb Queen from Image Comics, DemonSlayer and Judo Girl!

Blindness was a blessing compared to that thing that happened to Walter Marsh's most vital senses.

Includes a volume called "Proceedings of the joint meeting of the members of the Committee of Direction, chairmen of committees and subcommittees, and consulting members of the Association of American Railroads, Communications section, held ... New York, February 7, 1946."