Super Science 1: Volume 1

In a world where imagination becomes reality, a global phenomenon grants ordinary people extraordinary scientific powers.

Super Science is a sci-fi/comedy about a world where the limits of human imagination have become real. For five days the entire sky over twelve spots across the globe turn amethyst purple. The inexplicable result was in each location, professional engineers and scientists, as well as tinkers, amateur inventors, and high school science teachers were able to create scientific and engineering breakthroughs in ways far surpassing the world’s top scientific institutions. Our story starts three years later in Los Angeles, where a breed of actual superheroes and super villains are emerging.

Dealing with this new phenomenon is LAPD’s new “Mad Scientist Division." Our two main characters are the no-nonsense Sergeant Esmerelda Villanueva and her idealistic young partner, Officer Jack Mantle. Other main characters are manipulative industrialist Burt Montague, and his bold lab assistant Felicia Bari; perpetually unlucky Karen Katz, a former biology teacher who has turned herself into a human-cat hybrid; Esmerelda’s son Gabe, who might be the smartest teenager on the planet; and finally, nefarious super villain Dr. Cornelius Otherland, and his nemesis, bumbling superhero Gas Giant.

This mind-bending graphic novel from THE LAB ships in a gold-foil stamped cloth slipcase.

Super Science was written and created by N. Alessandro K. (Nicholas Kalikow). Kalikow is a feature film writer, director, and producer; as well as a freelance photographer. In 2013 Kalikow wrote and directed the feature film Concrete Blondes, this was followed up in 2017 by Carter & June; both of which Kalikow describes as “heist comedies." Kalikow has also produced numerous features films and documentaries with subjects as wide ranging as binge drinking, healthcare, and the automobile. Kalikow divides his time between New York and Los Angeles. Kalikow cites The Venture Bros., The X-Files, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Dexter’s Laboratory, Mad Men, Archer, The Kids In The Hall, and Mystery Science Theater 3000 as his major influences on this project.

M.K. Perker is an Eisner-nominated comic book creator whose work includes Image Comics’ Todd, The Ugliest Kid on Earth, Air (Vertigo/DC), Cairo (Vertigo/DC), The Unwritten (Vertigo/DC), Insomnia Cafe (Dark Horse) and others. His non-comic book work includes illustrations for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, BBC and others. He is a member of the Society of Illustrators.