The Manhattan Projects #17

Issue #17 of Jonathan Hickman, Nick Pitarra, and Jordie Bellaire's The Manhattan Projects arrives with a cover — designed by Hickman himself — that leans into the series' signature graphic boldness: bold CMYK quadrants frame a cast of stark pictogram figures, each quadrant hinting at a different faction or configuration of the projects' sprawling ensemble. The central black circle poses the series' core premise in plain text — a secret history where the brightest minds of a generation built something far stranger and more dangerous than an atomic bomb. "What We Made" promises a reckoning with exactly that question, and this 2014 issue's clean, almost clinical visual language makes it feel both playful and quietly unsettling.