The Manhattan Projects
Image · 2012–2014 · 5 issues
About the series
Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra’s The Manhattan Projects (2012–2014, Image) reimagines the secret history of the atomic age as a sprawling, darkly comic sci-fi conspiracy. Over five issues, the series transforms historical figures like Oppenheimer and Einstein into morally compromised, often monstrous players in a shadowy research network that expands far beyond nuclear physics. Hickman’s dense, idea-packed plotting and Pitarra’s frenetic, grotesque linework make this a standout Image title—a bold, unsettling alternate-history epic that questions the cost of genius and the nature of progress.