The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science Bad - Softcover

Hickman, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607066084 ISBN 13: 9781607066088

Publisher: Image Comics, 2012

Synopsis

• What if the research and development department created to produce the first atomic bomb was a front for a series of other, more unusual, programs?

About this title

From Booklist:

Mad science has long been a prime subject for comics. Hickman’s latest series is about as mad as it gets, imagining that the Manhattan Project was really just a front for Oppenheimer, Einstein, Feynman, et al., to get into the really out-there stuff in Los Alamos. And while Japanese teleportation machines (Zen-powered by Death Buddhists), concurrent universes accessed by an enigmatic portal-stone, and shady bargains with warring alien races over humanity’s fate are all good and fun, Hickman’s strongest play is the way he tinkers with the historical cast members at the dawn of the atomic age. Oppenheimer, in particular, gets a disturbingly twisted portrayal, and who couldn’t love giving the Max Headroom treatment to postlife FDR? On the art side, Pitarra’s long-legged figures look like they could have just jumped out of a Where’s Waldo? book and into a zany, bloody conspiracy theory come to life. Determined to blow as many minds on as many different levels as he can, Hickman is onto something with this series. --Ian Chipman

About this edition

• Publisher: Image Comics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1607066084
• ISBN 13: 9781607066088
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144