A lot is being said about Brian K. Vaughn's 'Saga' right now, and rightly so. It's awesome. However, there's way more than enough room for a few awesome comics to come out at the same time, and if I were to recommend something that's just as good, it'd be Jonathan Hickman's Manhattan Projects.Thi...
I was rather disappointed with this book. First, the art was not for me. It was scribbly and loose and mushy. It reminded me a lot of the old cartoon Rugrats from Nickelodeon, which I also disliked for the same reason. The coloring was ok, and when it was just blue and red was interesting, but th...
The Manhattan Projects is a series about an alternate World War II. It explains to you the “what ifs” if The Manhattan Project, the research and development project for WWII, didn’t just work on atomic bombs and things of that nature, but was a front for all sorts of weird projects that cross int...
Such an absurd concept, played out brilliantly. The Manhattan Project was only the start, and the scientists involved in it (and other super geniuses of the time) actually were working on even wackier and wilder science. And none are normal - Oppenheimer is fractured, Einstein's not who he seem...
Hickman drew me right in with his technical writing for Fantastic Four and FF. There's something I like about someone who writes just a little over my head. I think it's the challenge.MP delivers an alternate reality of science that will get any nerd giddy. It actually started pretty clear and ea...
Eh. The premise is kind of great, being about the four horsemen and and all, but with death being a grown-up, and the rest being kids, and Death being...married? to a Chinese lady? Who is very strong? It's out of sync. And distracting, and not well-told enough to distract from that. It's visually...
I just reread the this issue, since I'm about to start reading the Infinity-event and I must say I enjoyed it maybe more than the first time I read it. The Avengers are going "bigger", that means space. Now I certainly enjoyed the space-series (Annihilation, Guardians of the Galaxy), so this co...
A scifi/fantasy Western. The Four horsemen of the Apocalypse are gunslingers - except when 3 of them are children and the other one, namely Death, has gone rogue and stayed a gunslinger. The grim reaper is in love and so isn't pulling his weight on the Apocalypse planning committee. He's still de...
After the events of Volume 1, the team at Manhattan Projects (and what a grotesque team it is) has come out victorious. They have won over their adversaries (both earthly and extraterrestrial), but now what? Where is the next challenge? Well, among themselves of course! We have come to know the p...
I have a feeling that the day when I give a rating of "it was amazing" to the Marvel comic is approaching. And "New Avengers Vol. 1 Everything Dies" certainly had something to do with this believe becoming stronger. Prior to this I had given three times the rating of 4 stars and "really liked it"...
I struggled a bit with the first two trades of this series, but considering how much I enjoy most of Hickman's work, I keep powering through with this. With the third book, my patience has been rewarded to a point, as this is finally what I was expecting from this series. Part origin stories, p...
I wasn't thrilled with the first volume of the Marvel Now Avengers. It seemed to be setting the Avengers up to be galactic heroes in a space opera. That's fine for the Guardians but so far it's not working here. This second volume expands on the "all universes are ending" apocalypse.Two creatures...
Every time I read a book by Jonathan Hickman my brain hurts. I turn the last page, close the book, and try to figure out what I just read.That being said, this is just a fascinating concept. Combines steampunk, history, and superheroes. I didn't fully understand half of Hickman's concepts, like t...
Whoa, I did not care for this at all. First off, the art is just not my cup of tea. Either commit to a haphazard inking style or commit to a more polished inking style; mixing and matching the two is just plain ineffective. Second of all, I could see the "twist" coming a mile away, and rolled my ...
Not sure what to think of this one. I liked the premise of the story, but there's no meat to it. It's far too short and too simplistic. And I guess this is the paradox of many graphic novels. It's prohibitively expensive and time intensive to produce a complex story in graphic novel form with...
I wish I was reading this series monthly, cause it's a tough one to pick up after six months absence and try to remember everything that's going on. Hickman's world is huge, with a deep and rich history that might occasionally leave you scratching your head if you're not paying close attention. T...