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Published: 2012-10-28 03:24:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 14238; Favourites: 220; Downloads: 1
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Description This is a piece I did as an art trade with the awesomely talented Nick Pitarra . I'm a big fan of his rather kickass series THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS, so it was a blast to draw the book's strange cast.

Clockwise from left top row: resident alien Dr. Enrico Fermi; the slightly batshit General Leslie Groves; Masonic Sovereign Grand Inspector General (and also US President) Harry S. Truman (holding the being known as FDR: AI); the thoroughly irradiated Dr. Harry Daghlian; robot-armed Nazi rocket scientist Dr. Wernher Von Braun; interdimensional interloper Albrecht Einstein; psychopathic cannibal Dr. Joseph Oppenheimer; the ill-fated Dr. Weiss; and intrepid young physicist Richard Feynman.

The series is set in an alternate universe where the Manhattan Project's pursuit of creating the atom bomb was a cover for many much more advanced (and potentially mega-destructive) technologies. The book's very funny and unpredictable, and kinda reads like a billion-dollar-budget version of DR. STRANGELOVE dropped some serious amounts of acid with aliens and then went off to fight kamikaze samurai robots. In other words: I strongly suggest ya go check it out. You can probably find it at your local comic shop, or just get the first collected volume right here on Amazon: [link]

UPDATE: Made a slight addition to this one and added a few of the cast members that have shown up since I did the original piece. Just the fact that Laika and Yuri Gagarin have become regulars demanded this be done- illuminati Mexican wrestlers and Soviet cyborgs is a bonus.
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Comments: 20

ToonHolt [2015-09-12 00:29:48 +0000 UTC]

Albert as Rick, nice.

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SomeRandomMinion [2014-08-21 16:48:27 +0000 UTC]

I am SO getting this comic.

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Cornelius-Slate [2013-07-22 08:05:04 +0000 UTC]

Paul Hanley, can I drink the kool-Aid that you are drinking because this series sounds AWESOME!

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TheChrisOfFenric [2013-07-10 07:30:38 +0000 UTC]

I keep coming back just to stare at this.

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savagehenry89 [2013-03-21 12:38:04 +0000 UTC]

Ive been meaning to pick this comic up.

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PaulHanley In reply to savagehenry89 [2013-03-21 12:55:32 +0000 UTC]

The first collected volume is available on Amazon UK right here: [link] It's a great read. Volume 2 hits the shelves just over a month from now.

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savagehenry89 In reply to PaulHanley [2013-03-21 17:37:33 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the link.

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android65mar [2013-01-23 22:27:30 +0000 UTC]

Will have to check this out some time.

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HanselTheLost [2012-12-15 04:07:29 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! Glad I got to see this in Austin.

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Arcalian [2012-10-28 23:27:53 +0000 UTC]

cool.

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Passin [2012-10-28 22:50:18 +0000 UTC]

Very interested now

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derekmetaltron [2012-10-28 19:57:02 +0000 UTC]

Ohhhh, now I really want to read this comic now you described it, sounds a bit like Mystery Society which I picked up lately. And great artwork as ever!

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Infinity-Joe [2012-10-28 16:56:56 +0000 UTC]

I've been really digging that book. And great job btw.

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Kasterborous [2012-10-28 14:16:12 +0000 UTC]

Never heard of this before, but being suitably intrigued and something of a Feynmaniac I've done a little reading up on it and now it's firmly on my Christmas list.

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SylarSushiCat [2012-10-28 13:21:35 +0000 UTC]

Looks like this would be an amazing read O . O
Also Nerdfighter hand sign !!!

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ElPresedente [2012-10-28 12:34:14 +0000 UTC]

I frigging love this comic. Nice to see you do a take on the characters.

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DocRedfield [2012-10-28 07:11:14 +0000 UTC]

Groovy

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AlexiStrigoii [2012-10-28 05:09:44 +0000 UTC]

Alan Oppenheimer is gonna be pissed if he finds out what you said about his cousin...

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PaulHanley In reply to AlexiStrigoii [2012-10-28 06:24:43 +0000 UTC]

Hey, Jonathan Hickman wrote it. Take it up with him.

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AlexiStrigoii In reply to PaulHanley [2012-10-28 08:08:56 +0000 UTC]

He's pissed off Ming the Merciless, how do we get to a minimum safe distance when someone does that????

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