In all my years of reading comics, I never thought that one of my favorite characters would be the real-life physicist Richard P. Feynman. I learned quite a bit about him last year, when I read the biography “Feynman,†published by First Second. As I said then, “much of the science went over my head, but the story was always captivating as were the scenes from his everyday life.â€
Mr. Feynman has come back to my reading list in the form of “The Manhattan Projects,†which enters our softcover list at No. 8. This is volume one of an on-going series written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by Nick Pitarra. It asks the question: “What if the research and development department created to produce the first atomic bomb was a front for a series of other, more unusual, programs?†The characters, including Einstein, Feynman and Oppenheimer, are like a Justice League of Science â€" and they are dealing with aliens, doppelgangers and more â€" and, from the first reading, I'm not quite sure they are always on the side of angels. Sign me up for more!
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