The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Welcome to The Manhattan Projects Brought to you by award-winning writer Jonathan Hickman and possibly the best new talent in the industry, Nick Pitarra. 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.

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 presents an entire alt-America where Robert Oppenheimer consumes and inhabits multiple personalities, Harry Daghlian carries on as an irradiated professional scientist version of Marvel’s Holocaust, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes the world’s first artificial intelligence system. The Manhattan Projects, Vol 1 by Jonathan Hickman, Nick Pitarra (Artist) eBook 11.49 14.99 Save 23 Paperback 14.99 eBook 11.49 View All Available Formats & Editions Instant Purchase Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. 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.

Mad science has long been a prime subject for comics.

The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman