The Manhattan Projects #9

The Manhattan Projects has always had a flair for the unconventional, and issue #9's cover — a clean, typographic design by Jonathan Hickman himself — leans into that with quiet confidence, letting the title's unsettling premise do the heavy lifting. The cover text poses the series' central "what if": what if the atomic bomb's research department was a front for stranger, darker programs, and what if everything went wrong? Subtitled "Brave New World," this February 2013 installment from Hickman, Nick Pitarra, and Jordie Bellaire promises that the brilliant minds of the Projects are heading somewhere genuinely unexpected.