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Pax Romana (comics)

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Schedule
  
Irregular

Genre
  
Science fiction

Artist(s)
  
Jonathan Hickman

Publisher
  
Image Comics

Format
  
Limited series

Number of issues
  
4

Writer
  
Jonathan Hickman

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Publication date
  
December 2007 – November 2008

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Pax Romana is a four-issue American comic book limited series written and illustrated by Jonathan Hickman and published by Image Comics.

Contents

Plot

Vatican-backed research has discovered the secret of time travel. With it the Church plans to fix the future by altering the past. They send a warehouse of modern weaponry and enhanced soldiers to Rome in 312AD. Plans change quickly as the cardinal in charge of the mission is shot.

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a trade paperback:

  • Pax Romana (120 pages, April 2008, ISBN 1-58240-873-4)
  • Adaptation

    On April 30, 2014, Syfy announced they would be adapting Pax Romana into a miniseries. Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia (Warehouse 13) are writing the show, with Scaia and David Alpert (The Walking Dead) executive producing. Hickman will serve as a co-executive producer.

    References

    Pax Romana (comics) Wikipedia