![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The art's surreal combination of caricatures of famous dead men with unbelievable weapons battling incredible enemies is eye-catching and incredibly entertaining. As the focus moves from battling Nazis to battling belligerent space empires%E2%80%94and with the Americans wielding stranger and more sinister powers%E2%80%94the line between good and evil gets vaguer, and who's on who's side becomes a more difficult question. The plot jumps through this alternate timeline, shifting gears abruptly, but entertaining throughout. The story could easily veer into bland World War II fan fiction, but instead Hickman and Pitarra gleefully transform the historical figures behind the atom bomb into a collection of anti-heroes bent on using every dirty trick in the book to save America and the World from a myriad of evils. A secret plan to defend America with terrifying super weapons, a multi-personality psychotic Oppenheimer, a robotic-armed Wernher von Braun, and a galaxy full of hostile aliens are just a small part of the Hickman and Pitarra's alternate world. This is not the Manhattan Project you read about in school. ![]()
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