A dinner date devolves into a Dadaist farce. Death decides his victim s fate over a high-stakes game of chess. Kafka is ensnared in a con-founding bureaucracy of his own imagination. Spock beams down to 1920s Paris to live a double life as an avant-garde painter. Hitchcock-ian thrillers, literary adaptations, and homages to classic EC comics abound. Dinosaurs! David Bowie! Vampires! Elvis! Welcome to the cosmic gumbo of Upside Dawn.