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“The quest for a stolen painting may take a long time and a lot of patience. This one led me to the Adriatic and the Balkans, started far away from those places, with an encounter in Carmen’s café, a phone call and a meeting in a town where I had never been before and it still seems far from its end.” A long time was what it took for this second issue of COSTA to come out, so I condensed in here the first chapter of Costa’s quest, “The Green Fish”. In the next two chapters Costa will meet Šofer, the chauffeur and Škarpina, the woman “all in flesh and blue”, but he will not reach the painting, “Der Grüne Fisch” by Paul Klee. And I start suspecting he never will, since those episodes took place in summer and until now there is no news about its recovery. There is also in this issue a winter section, with the story of the mysterious cabaret chicken dancers, the drama of baka Buba and the secrets of the mighty sauerkraut with one recipe of musaka of sauerkraut as the main course.