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Manhattan Projects Volume 1: Science Bad by Jonathan Hickman

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 00:00 | Craig Graziano
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Manhattan Projects Volume 1: Science Bad by Jonathan Hickman

I thought that Manhattan Projects was weird, and then the main characters stuck a cybernetic spike into Franklin Roosevelt's head, creating the world's first artificial intelligence.

Woe to anyone hoping that Jonathan Hickman's comic book series would be an accurate retelling of the construction of the atomic bomb. Sure, it gets mentioned from time to time.

The real driving force of Hickman's story, which ended up on many top comics lists last year, is the idea that the atomic bomb is just one of the hideous creations that super-geniuses Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein, and Richard Feynman were working on. The other stuff... it ain't pretty.

Malice

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By by Chris Wooding

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Comic books are not all fun and games. If you gather the right things and say the right words, it is rumored that Tall Jake will take you inside the terrifying world of the comic, Malice, and your life – perhaps your death - will play out on its pages. Seth and Kady don’t believe it’s real until their friend Luke disappears and their horror begins.

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A History of Classic Science Fiction: John Carter’s Mars and Flash Gordon’s Universe

Fri, 01/22/2010 - 12:56 | John Gaines
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Cover to The Gods of Mars

The most famed and prolific area of science fiction is the planetary adventure, featuring strange environments, exotic alien races, and massive battle scenes. Many of the most popular science fiction universes, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, and Avatar, take place in these environments. Most of these universes owe their existence to the adventure fiction of one author.

There's a Hair in My Dirt

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By Gary Larson

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It's not easy being a worm, especially when your story is being told by Far Side cartoonist Larson. 

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Free Comic Book Day! - Saturday, May 2

Thu, 04/30/2009 - 13:43 | Scott Phillips and Caroline Parr
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Free Comic Book Day is a single day - the first Saturday in May - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their stores. Several Fredericksburg-area stores generously donate comic books to the Central Rappahannock Regional Library so that we can give them away at the library, too.