The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 5: The Cold War
10 best books like The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 5: The Cold War (Jonathan Hickman): Criminal, Vol. 5: The Sinners, Trillium, Moon Knight, Vol. 1: From the Dead, Black Science, Vol. 4: Godworld, Criminal, Vol. 4: Bad Night, Lazarus, Vol. 2: Lift, Mothering Invention, Black Hammer, Vol. 3: Age of Doom Part One, Southern Bastards, Vol. 4: Gut Check, Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
Criminal, Vol. 5: The Sinners
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 0785132295 |
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...
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1401249000 |
Award-winning and fan favorite comics creator Jeff Lemire spins the tale of two star-crossed loved through space in time in TRILLIUM!
It's the year 3797, and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a strange species on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space.
It's...
Moon Knight, Vol. 1: From the Dead
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 0785154086 |
Marc Spector is Moon Knight! Or is he? It’s hard to tell these days, especially when New York’s wildest vigilante protects the street with two-fisted justice and three — that’s right, count ’em — three different personalities! But even with the mystical force of Egyptian moon-god Khonshu...
| Author | Rick Remender |
| ISBN | 1632156865 |
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...
Criminal, Vol. 4: Bad Night
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 0785132287 |
A woman in trouble, friends on the run from cops and mobsters, and a secret no one is prepared to face! Five years ago, Jake was a happy family man, long-retired from the life of crime he grew up in, and then the police made him the prime suspect in a horrible crime and ripped his life apart! Now, years later,...
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 1607068710 |
My name is Sarah and I am naught but a harebrained nitwit. Why? Because I almost gave up on this most wondrous series after reading this instalment. I thought it was disappointing. And kinda sorta meh. And kinda sorta boring. So I wasn't exactly excited and enthusiastic and thrilled at the prospect of...
| Author | Kieron Gillen |
| ISBN | 1534308407 |
I don't know if the series is actually getting better again or if I'm just excited that WicDiv is ending in just one more volume, but I thought Mothering Invention was pretty good, in fact the best arc since volume 3 of the series. Gillen delves back into ancient history with his divine mythos, which leads...
Black Hammer, Vol. 3: Age of Doom Part One
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1506703895 |
The Eisner Award-winning superhero saga returns with this two-part mystery with lots of revelations!
Picking up immediately where we left off--Lucy Weber has become the new Black Hammer and right as she's about to reveal to our heroes how they got stuck on the farm and can escape she vanishes....
Southern Bastards, Vol. 4: Gut Check
| Author | Jason Aaron |
| ISBN | 1534301941 |
Coach Boss holds sway over Craw County for one reason: he wins football games. But after the biggest, ugliest loss of his career, the coach must become more of a criminal than ever before, if he's gonna keep ahead of his enemies.
Enemies like Roberta Tubb, who's come to town with a machine gun and some...
Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
| Author | Kieron Gillen |
| ISBN | 1534312706 |
The Wicked + The Divine writer Kieron Gillen teams up with artist supernova Stephanie Hans (WicDiv, Journey Into Mystery) for her first ongoing comic. Die is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthly horror they only just survived as teenage...
Dept. H, Volume 1: Pressure
| Author | Matt Kindt |
| ISBN | 1616559896 |
From New York Times bestselling MIND MGMT creator Matt Kindt comes an exciting and new undersea sci-fi mystery.
Mia is a special investigator hired to uncover possible sabotage taking place at a deep-sea research station. What she uncovers is a mind-blowing crime scene filled with suspects...
Criminal, Vol. 2: Lawless
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 0785128166 |
Twenty years ago, Tracy Lawless traded the crime-ridden streets of the city for a life in the military, and it's a decision he's rarely regretted. But now he's walking out of the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq and back into the world he grew up in, to find out who killed his brother Rick, and why. But truth...
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 1632157209 |
The Injection is a massive rogue artificial machine-learning system that is operating uncontrolled somewhere in the ether. Detective Vivek Headland and his colleagues, who created Injection, are trying to find it while another group, Rubedo, are trying to capture it, believing it’s the Philosopher’s...
Dept. H, Volume 2: After the Flood
The second volume (of three) of this mystery/thriller by the author of the Mind Mgmt series. This is a volume mostly concerned with exposition, with backstory on the characters/suspects in the underwater lab that is on the eve of destruction, apparently sabotaged by someone from within. This is in...
| Author | Scott Snyder |
| ISBN | 1401248829 |
Writer Scott Snyder (Batman, Swamp Thing) and artist Rafael Albuquerque bring together even more threads to the complex tapestry that is the world of American Vampire.
When we meet Pearl again, it is in 1960’s Kansas, an era fraught with fear of nuclear war, angry demonstrations and vast social...
Dept. H Volume 3: Decompressed
| Author | Matt Kindt |
| ISBN | 1616559918 |
Confronted with a deep-sea base that is slowly imploding, Mia gets one step closer to solving the murder of her father. But things won't be that easy, as our small team of survivors but grapple with psychic jellyfish and exposure to mind-altering and potentially lethal pathogens that might just drive...
Dept. H Volume 4: Lifeboat
| Author | Matt Kindt |
| ISBN | 1616559926 |
Contains the exciting series conclusion!
The remaining survivors of Dept. H abandon the deep-sea base and prepare for their long-awaited ascent. But life above the waterline remains uncertain for the team, and the pressure to solve Hari's murder continues to strengthen its grip on Mia....
Outcast, Vol. 4: Under Devil's Wing
| Author | Robert Kirkman |
| ISBN | 1534300503 |
Story continues strong here. I'm still enjoying how the characters keep changing and their situation evolves as the plot progresses.
That said, the story seems to be escalating, rather than heading to a conclusion. By this I mean the problem the characters are facing is just getting bigger...
