I like the drawing of the ship in the first pane …

:)

I dont rember zap having a hood like in the last panel.

The future is a dark and scary place with brick-walled alleys and giant Christmas lights dangling off skyscrapers.

It is Zap. His jacket has a hood.

I'm really tired of people publishing fiction (and even claiming to be “journalists”) who hate their own species. Earth reaches the stars and inevitably becomes a conglomeration of greedy oligarchs whose only objective is the subjugation of other peoples? /facepalm

 Becomes? Don’t you watch the news? We’re pretty much already there.