Enos The Comic
Enos The Chimp, All Too Human is the first in a series of comics telling the story of our eponymous hero. Written by Chris P. Rizzanski and with fantastic artwork by Paul Stanczykowski this comic goes hand in hand with Enos’ music.
Born from a life long love of trash sci-fi and a fascination with the space programs of the mid 20th century All Too Human starts the simian space traveller out on a fantastical journey…
“On Wednesday the 29th of November 1961 at 15:08, after several delays, NASA launched what was to be their final test flight. On board Mercury-Atlas 5 was Enos, a temperamental five year old chimpanzee. This was to be a full dress rehearsal for John Glenn’s historic flight just three months later.
The pressure was on at Cape Canaveral, the US was losing the space race. The Soviet’s had succeeded in getting the first satellite into Earth’s orbit four years earlier, and in the seven months since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space another Russian, Gherman Titov, had safely returned from orbit.
Questions were being asked about the worth of this increasingly expensive and dangerous obsession with space. If NASA and America were to save face and regain some of the ground they had lost to the Russians nothing could go wrong with this mission. It was with this in mind that they launched the most highly trained chimp in the American Air Force into the history books.
Enos returned to Earth after completing two orbits and travelling 50,892 miles. The whole mission had lasted just 3 hours, 20 minutes and 59 seconds.
On his return Enos was a changed chimp. This once surly and mean spirited chimpanzee apparently jumped for joy, ran excitedly around the deck of the recovery ship and merrily shook the hands of the researchers. Many who met him after his return commented that it was like meeting a different chimp. This is his story . . .”
Originally serialised in Thee Big Black the full version of All Too Human is available as a free PDF download or to purchase as a physical hard copy. The comic also comes as a free download with Enos’ first record, Chapter 1.
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