The Manhattan Projects

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Publisher Image Comics Format Ongoing series Writer Jonathan Hickman Publication date 2012–ongoing		Schedule Monthly Number of issues 25 Genre Science Fiction Artist Nick Pitarra

Creator(s) Jonathan HickmanNick Pitarra Colorist(s) Cris Peter; Rachelle Rosenberg; Jordie Bellaire Similar East of West, Nowhere Men, Thief of Thieves, Fatale, God Hates Astronauts

The Manhattan Projects is a graphic novel series co-created by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Nick Pitarra published by Image Comics. It is a story about an alternate history of the end of World War II in which the Manhattan Project was a front for other more esoteric science fiction ideas. The series is a monthly ongoing and began in March 2012 to much critical acclaim.

The series was relaunched as Manhattan Projects: The Sun Beyond the Stars on March 11, 2015.

Characters

Joseph Oppenheimer, an American physicist with multiple personalities; Robert Oppenheimer's evil twin brother

Albert Einstein, a German physicist and barbarian

Albrecht Einstein, a German physicist and alcoholic from an alternate reality

Richard Feynman, an American physicist and wormholer

Enrico Fermi, an extraterrestrial disguised as an Italian physicist

William Westmoreland, a US Army general and butcher

Harry Daghlian, an irradiated American physicist; the "Atomic Messiah"

Wernher von Braun, a German rocket scientist with robotic prosthetic limbs

Leslie Groves, a US Army general who constantly smokes cigars and prefers the use of bombs in combat

FDR: A.I., the artificial intelligence of the deceased American president, Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lyndon B. Johnson, an American president from Texas

Harry S. Truman, a Freemason and American president

Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut and hero

Laika, a Russian space dog who can speak and is much smarter than people think

Helmutt Gröttrup, a German rocket scientist and slave

Dmitriy Ustinov, a Russian Minister of Defense

John F. Kennedy, an alcoholic, drug-addicted, womanizing American president

The Manhattan Projects has been collected into the following trade paperbacks:

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