With his new Image Comics series, The Manhattan Projects, Hickman deftly finds a way to blend the poetry of Einstein’s Dreams, the absurdity of comic book science, and the fragility of American history. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. But as comic writers go, no one is as consistently smart as Hickman.It’s infuriating. Determined to blow as many minds on as many different levels as he can, Hickman is onto something with this series.
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. Volume 4 follows our fractured cast as they focus on their own diverse, secret experiments and global power plays resulting in inevitable betrayal. 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. The Manhattan Projects is an alternate history of the end of World War II in which the Manhattan Project was a front for other more esoteric science fiction ideas. The battle for global supremacy is underway and the bad men of the Manhattan. 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. The second amazing volume of the Science, Bad book of the new millennium. Paperback Illustrated, September 18, 2012. Mad science has long been a prime subject for comics.
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