The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 3: Building

10 best books like The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 3: Building (Jonathan Hickman): Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon, Criminal, Vol. 5: The Sinners, Black Science, Vol. 1: How to Fall Forever, Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora & Fauna, Remission, Black Science, Vol. 4: Godworld, Black Science, Vol. 2: Welcome, Nowhere, Prophet, Volume 3: Empire, Baltimore, Vol. 1: The Plague Ships, Morning Glories, Vol. 2: All Will Be Free

Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon
AuthorJeff Lemire
ISBN1632156768
I was so happy to pick this up in my local comic shop and I knew I would love it as I did with the first one. This one I felt was even better with not only artwork that's stunning but also a beautifully developing story line which is really starting to make a bit more sense now. I love the emotional connection we...
Criminal, Vol. 5: The Sinners
AuthorEd Brubaker
ISBN0785132295
Tracy Lawless is the main character for this one. I think it's his return to the series but I've read them out of order and I'm easily confused. It doesn't matter with these books though because they each can be read individually. (Yay! that helps old broads with shit for brains)

Lawless is ex-military...
Black Science, Vol. 1: How to Fall Forever
AuthorRick Remender
ISBN1607069679
Anarchist scientist Grant McKay has done the impossible! Using the Pillar, he has punched a hole through the barriers between dimensions, allowing travel to all possible universes. But now Grant and his team are trapped in the folds of infinity, the Pillar sending them careening through a million...
Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora & Fauna
AuthorChris Dingess
ISBN1607069822
Did I just meet my new favorite graphic novel? Yes . . . I think I did!



Holy cow! Volume one of Manifest Destiny was so freaking entertaining I cannot wait for more. I gobbled this up faster than any graphic novel volume I can remember. If the future volumes are even half as entertaining,...
Remission
AuthorBrandon Graham
ISBN1607066114
Here is the chronology of thoughts as I read this. NOTE: this is FULL so SPOILERS. Also, I knew nothing about the original when I read this:

Whoa, AMAZING gorgeous art!
OMG, I love the worlds!
The creatures, the creatures, the CREATURES!
Oh wow, a city of jelly? Awesome! But...ew.
Damn,...
AuthorRick Remender
ISBN1632156865
This fourth volume of Black Science has blown the first three out of the water.

I first picked up #1 of this book due to the beautiful artwork and the fact that it felt like all the great pulp science fiction I grew up on... particularly Robert Heinlein and even more particularly The Number of the...
Black Science, Vol. 2: Welcome, Nowhere
AuthorRick Remender
ISBN1632150182
The Anarchist League of Scientists has lost their leader, the most recent victim of the Pillar's violently random jumps through the Eververse...but are they really random? As the survivors fight their way through a world where magic and science are one and the same, the secrets of their predicament...
Prophet, Volume 3: Empire
AuthorBrandon Graham
ISBN1607068583
People need to stfu about Saga & Y the Last Man, this here is what us real sci-fi lovers have been sitting around and craving; instead of humanizing all the aliens into hackneyed anime hentai and wanna be Buffy the Vampire Slayer yuck-yucks, this does a fair sight of alien-i-zing all the humans and...
Baltimore, Vol. 1: The Plague Ships
AuthorMike Mignola
ISBN1595826734
buh.

i mean, the artwork is great - the whole "i only acknowledge three colors and one of them is blood" thing is something i can totally get behind.





but the story kind of left me wanting more. or not wanting more. because this is obviously the first part in a series, (although...
Morning Glories, Vol. 2: All Will Be Free
AuthorNick Spencer
ISBN1607064073
Morning Glory Academy

One of the most prestigious prep schools in the country...But behind it's hallowed doors something sinister and deadly lurks. When six brilliant but troubled new students arrive, they find themselves trapped and desperately seeking answers...and escape from a place...
Low, Vol. 2: Before the Dawn Burns Us
AuthorRick Remender
ISBN1632154692

This volume suffered from the same problem as volume 1. In volume 1, the mother had a bad case of being way too optimistic. It was to the point that it felt exceedingly forced due to how many times it was mentioned. This volume improved slightly in that the optimism was not mentioned quite so frequently,...
Nowhere Men, Vol. 1: Fates Worse Than Death
AuthorEric Stephenson
ISBN1607066912
"Science is the new Rock ‘N’ Roll!"

So said Dade Ellis, Simon Grimshaw, Emerson Strange, and Thomas Walker at the dawn of a new age of enlightenment that ushered in a boom in scientific advancement. As the research supergroup World Corp., they became the most celebrated scientists of all...
Revival, Vol. 4: Escape to Wisconsin
AuthorTim Seeley
ISBN1632150123
The Revivers may have a twistier origin than they originally thought.
What the hell?!
What do you mean, Anne?
Sorry, random Goodreader, but I've already said too much.



This volume is full of non-answering answers that just lead to more questions. And I mean that in a good...
Black Science, Vol. 3: Vanishing Point
AuthorRick Remender
ISBN1632153955
The Anarchist League of Scientists dive deeper into the Onion than ever before. Now veterans of inter-dimensional travel, the team begins to realize how damaging their actions are on the fabric of reality. No longer content with merely fixing the Pillar and finding a way back home, they vow to uphold...
Kill or be Killed, Vol. 2
AuthorEd Brubaker
It’s hard out here for a masked vigilante killer.

The first volume set up the premise of a young man named Dylan saved from an attempted suicide from a demon who now demands that he kill at least one bad person a month or forfeit his own life. While reluctant at first Dylan is getting better, if...
MIND MGMT, Volume Six: The Immortals
AuthorMatt Kindt
ISBN1616557982
Having now read all six volumes of the series, I gotta say: Wow! MIND MGMT is certainly one of the most complex, intriguing, strangely rewarding comic-book stories I have come across in a while. What is it all about? Hmm, the difficulty of keeping an open mind and doing the right thing in an increasingly...
MIND MGMT, Volume One: The Manager
AuthorMatt Kindt
ISBN1595827978
Matt Kindt, the most original voice in genre comics, outdoes himself in this bold new espionage series!
Reporting on a commercial flight where everyone aboard lost their memories, a young journalist stumbles onto a much bigger story - the top-secret Mind Management program. Her ensuing journey...
Black Science, Vol. 6: Forbidden Realms and Hidden Truths
AuthorRick Remender
ISBN1534301828
After years adrift in the chaotic Eververse, the McKay family finally reunites in their home dimension. But it's far from the happy end they expected. To save all there is and ever will be, the Dimensionauts need to cut deeper into the Onion than ever before!
RICK REMENDER & MATTEO SCALERA present...
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