7 Current Sci-Fi Comics That Are Way More Interesting Than Guardians Of The Galaxy

4. Manhattan Projects

Speaking of speculative... Joseph Oppenheimer. Richard Feynman. Wernher Von Braun. Albert Einstein. If those names mean anything to you, then you'll know that they were instrumental in ending World War II by creating the atom bombs that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What you may not know is that the Manhattan Project was merely "a front for a series of other, more unusual programs." Programs like intergalactic teleportation, alien contact (and obliteration), interdimensional travel, moon bases and Fantastic Voyage-esque bodily adventures. Now, you may so you didn't know that because it's not true, but let's get past that. The Manhattan Projects is madcap, twisted sci-fi at its most insane, taking historical figures and turning them into warped versions of themselves, from the alternate-universe alcoholic Einstein who's not quite a genius but is handy with a chainsaw, Laika the talking space-dog and the MPD-suffering Oppenheimer, who's actually Joseph's homicidal brother Robert having stolen his identity - and knowledge - by eating his brain. Yes, it's that kind of book. Writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Nick Pitarra produce appropriately offbeat work for the series which is released in staisfyingly self-contained chunks of story that feel like Saturday morning cartoons for grown-ups with personality disorders. Something for those who don't always like their stories a little more fiction than science.