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The Manhattan Projects #1 (2012)

by Jonathan Hickman(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Image Comics

series

The Manhattan Projects

review 1: I picked this up on the strength of East of West and the promising idea of messing around with well known scientists in an alternate history, but I really struggled to get into it. I really love the clean design of the covers but find the messy, scratchy art inside ugly and looking at it makes me feel really uncomfortable. Whilst it was a difficult slog at first, by the time I'd got to the end of the first volume it had picked up a bit and triggered enough interest that I will try to read more of it, eventually.
review 2: I just joined the Jonathan Hickman fan club as of five seconds ago upon finishing issue #1 of The Manhattan Projects. This is SUCH a creative take on the J. Robert Oppenheimer story. I'm only a little biased, I love science literature and looo... moreved the play "In the Matter of J. Robert Openheimer". Add some great art (as well as some interspersed pages of Hickman's cool sparse graphic design), some scifi themes, including kamikazi robots from another dimension and how could I not love it? This is a wonderful example of my constant declaration to comics detractors - "Comics are literature!". Here is the beginning of a remarkable story, based in real history, yet a totally imagined new world. The art is so perfectly incorporated that the story would be lesser without it and vice-versa. This comic exemplifies how the art and the story in a comic should work together. Okay, I'm getting abstract. Hickman has reinvented the story of Robert Oppenheimer's involvement in the infamous Manhattan Project, where he and other reknowned physicists invented the world's first atomic bomb. But Hickman's story isn't just a clever rehashing with a scifi bent; it's a totally new world here, and it's full of surprises. Physics nerds flock to this one! Of the comics I picked up this week, I'd recommend this one first (Saga second). Can't wait for #2. less

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