Bullet Review:Wuuuuuut...I'm no WWII fan, but when my coworker gave this to me, I couldn't say no. And I have to admit, for being alternate WWII, it wasn't half-bad. At the very least, got a WHOLE lot more respect for Jonathan Hickman, who's Avengers, Vol. 1: Avengers World made me screw up my face in consternation and confusion.The Manhattan Project(s). With split personality Oppenheimer, drunk Einstein, narcissitic Feynman, and more. Absolutely insane, but really interesting as well.Not sure i...

And here I thought I was weird.Alternative history is my jam, and I like to think that I have a high weird tolerance, but oh my gosh, color me confused and a little crazy feeling right now. Think twists upon twists upon twists, morally questionable characters (that, I love), a messy plot I had a hard time following, mad scientists EVERYWHERE, the absence of ANY woman in there (come on now, there are women scientists in History - include them, for fuck sake), aliens, blend all this together, and

"I try, but I have learned that there are no simple truths.How do you define...'doing good'. Or even 'being good'. There are no perfect answers.There are no perfect solutions to impossible situations.There is simply the daily race to the finish line called survival, and the motivation necessary to make it there."Certainly intriguing enough to continue onward with the story. Alternate history, the good versus the bad within one's self, science and its potential for sheer terror or bliss, Feynman,...

”The universe asked a question. I simply answered it.Who could have predicted the HELL that followed?”Albert Einstein I know we think this is the real Einstein, but is he? Albrecht Einstein, a bit more unstable than the facsimile above. He drinks. He is more paranoid.”I apologize if I’m exceedingly formal, but I find it a necessary coping mechanism. You see, I suffer from an embarrassingly mundane affliction that, when unaddressed, results in a shameful lack of manners.I am cursed with the...

The Manhattan Project is just a cover-up for much more bizarre research, thus the plural form (I am talking about alternate history here, I think). Add to this attack by a giant robot squad sent from Japan by Buddhist monks using the power of their meditation to open an portal straight into the laboratory and an encounter with aliens who just wiped out several other races and you will begin to get an initial idea about the weirdness of this. The familiar faces are here: Richard P. Feynman, Alber...

The Manhattan Projects is so full of bizarre details that I almost don't know where to start. It's an alternate version of the real Manhattan Project, but here the atomic bomb is more of a smokescreen, to detract attention from the real, and really strange, work of the project. But that's just the basic setup. The real interest is in the many strange things we find here. Like Robert Oppenheimer's twin brother murdering him, eating him, then assuming his identity. Like Einstein's monolith. Like v...

If you’re one of the sheep that just believe the ‘official’ history, then you think that the Manhattan Project was America’s top secret operation to build the first atomic bomb during World War 2. However, if you read these comics then you’ll know the real story.Actually the a-bomb was just the beginning. The Manhattan Projects were led by General Leslie Groves who gathered the US’s top scientist to come up with advanced weapons and tools to counter what the enemy was doing. Both sides were cons...

I read the comic book issues #1 to 15, that includes this volume of Hickman's interesting alternate parallel history / sc-fi / conspiracy / horror / black comedy. With Einstein, Yuri Gagarin, Laika the dog and Franklin D Roosevelt all part of the cast, an interesting read. For me some of the sci-fi stuff is a bit too much, but otherwise really enjoyable especially some of the off the wall original characters. 8 out of 12 for this volume.2016 read; 2014 read

Whacky, zainy and excellent! A joy to read.

Love, love, love the art and colouring in this. The red/blue flashbacks were beautiful, and the line art was wonderfully grotesque I'm a fan of alternate history sci-fi, so I was predisposed to like this anyway, but it was just such an wacky and evil take on reality that I couldn't help falling in love.

Twisted, bizarre, with insane clarity. This is a brilliant graphic novel that promises to grow into a fantastic series. There's more to The Manhattan Projects than The Manhattan Project. Atomic bombs? Child's play. There's much more afoot and much more at stake in this secret history of science. And the government's aims are not the only layered ambitions. There's also the question of Oppenheimer, Einstein, Feynman, Fermi, Daghlian, and Von Braun and their individual aims, let alone their real i...

Enjoyed it but not nearly as much as I'd hoped. The premise had me expecting something giddy and insane along the lines of Atomic Robo, or Umbrella Academy, or at least SHIELD. (I'm still holding out hope for Five Fists of Science which I may finally dig up next, to get the fix I missed here.)Instead this was more of a character study, once we stripped all the Stargate Universe layer away. Looking deep into the soul of some twisted portraits of the great minds of 20th century science, and imagin...

Hickman combines history and brilliant fantasy in this intelligent, funny, exciting story. Complemented with Pitarra's crazy artwork and an inventive use of colours this results in comic perfection.

This book combines a whole boat load of the things that fascinate me most: legendary scientists, America's relationship with Nazi's post WWII, and some seriously amazing art- so this was a great recommendation (thanks Kemper). The first half of this was five stars all the way for me, but by the time aliens entered the scene, I was pretty confused.As if the reality of of The Manhattan Project wasn't already devious enough, Hickman introduces us to the lesser-known, more nefarious experiments goin...

There's a certain excitement in reading a book in which anything can happen, no matter how incredulous. But this unpredictability comes at a cost; when the crazy things just keep happening with no apparent reason it gets tiring. I love the premise. I read this book as if it were written by a maniac conspiracy theorists. The most brilliant minds in the world would break away from the control of the government and do things on their own terms, and create the zany things that they want to create.

The Manhattan Project, the scheme to construct a working atomic bomb, was the tip of the iceberg with Oppenheimer and co. working on an artificial intelligence computer with the brain of Franklin D Roosevelt, as well as some kind of stargate. But none of the major players in these projects are who you think they are. Oppenheimer, Einstein, Feynman all have secrets and demons. There are also parallel dimensions and aliens thrown in as well.Jonathan Hickman presents an alternate take on a world-ch...

Historically, reading a Jonathan Hickman-penned funnybook has elicited one of two reactions from me: 1) A yawn of such impressive size and duration that it very nearly necessitates the installation of and/or evolution toward a flip-top head; or 2) An expression akin to Joey Tribbiani’s patented “smell the fart” acting styleI’m not entirely sure, then, what prompted me to pick up the first volume of Manhattan Projects. I’d like to blame alcohol, but there’s been a paucity of that mind-altering su...

I am just now reading this volume, after having earlier abandoned it, finding it just a little too crazy for me. This time, encouraged by Eisnein, I tried to slow down and savor it a bit, and I like it a little better, so far, and will read the next volume. It's imaginative, it draws on some research of The Manhattan Project and of scientific geniuses that informed what was going on during WW II. It also has aliens, dual-personalities and opposite personality (think: good/evil) twins and just mi...

Picked this up on a whim, just because I've been impressed with Hickman's work in the past....And I wasn't disappointed. Weird story, funny bits, interesting premise.I liked it well enough that I bought the rest of the series based on the strength of this single book. That says something...I'll let you know how I feel about the overall experience when I'm a few more books in....Edit - November 25th - I don't know how highly I can recommend this series, given the progression of the story after is...

Whoa.This gives me the same WTF feeling after reading that Hickman usually does, especially similar to how I felt after Vol. 1 of East of West.I'm not entirely sure how to rate this.I'm going with 3+ stars bumped up,for curiousity about what comes next.It is definitely creative, inspired, wacky, batshit, nuts, paranoid, zany, serious, foolish, colourful, mindfucky, and then some.Oh, and it's based on real people who were part of the actual Manhattan Project in the real world.So here the one we k...