Jonathan Hickman's frequently absurdist creation is a magnificent genre satire of alternative history, where evil twins mix with alien drones, as amusingly twisted versions of progressive scientists Oppenheimer, Einstein, Feynman, and Fermi, are prompted into confrontations with Roosevelt reborn as A.I., while President Truman leads his masonic Illuminati gang into White House decadence.
Wernher von Braun is a cyborg in a team-up with Russian hero Yuri Gagarin and his talking space-dog Laika. MP is hilarious, perverse, crazily inventive stuff with far more loony ideas and pithy one-liners packed into every page than any dozen other 21st century sci-fi books.
As international cooperation, not global competition, makes for radical futurism, MP (six volumes) is essential reading for sci-fi comics fans.
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