Nowhere Men Volume 1: Fates Worse Than Death TP Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Eric Stephenson Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1607066912 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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- Series: Nowhere Men
- Paperback: 184 pages
- Publisher: Image Comics (December 3, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1607066912
- ISBN-13: 978-1607066910
- Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Nowhere Men is an intelligently written, nuanced, and very intriguing book that perfectly makes use of the graphic novel format. I was enthralled from the first few pages and consider it one of the best graphic novels I have read.
The story starts in a very 1960s feeling America (but clearly an alternate universe) where four men, hailed as the hope of the future as brilliant young scientists, start a corporation with a ludicrously simple goal born of idealistic youth: to make life better for everyone. But as the book progresses, dissent, conflicting goals, and the changes wrought by the onset of maturity, hubris, and even greed causes the group to fracture into separate fiefdoms. Separate, they will fight each other, to the point that one will set into motion a devastating event horizon that will forever change the world they sought to make better.
Right from the beginning, the intriguing notion of what the world would be like if scientists, rather than rock stars, became the media obsession. The four young scientists dressed in 1960s floppy haired splendor at the beginning, are compared to the Beatles. And like the Beatles in the 1970s, each goes very separate ways in an era of drugs and pleasure. Two stay good friends, one drops out altogether in a haze of drugs and psychoanalysis, and the last becomes a megalomaniac.
The story alternates through time periods though the main arc throughout is what is happening in current time. Additional characters, affected by the Machiavellian machinations of the scientists, bring context to the larger story through their own personal struggles. Yes, as with any story focusing on scientists, it does veer very much into 'science gone wrong' dead end alley.
When it comes to picking up what I read, I usually get a general idea what I’m reading before hand. When it comes to Nowhere Men, there is very little on it in terms of general story. The Amazon description is pretty much the same in most summaries for the series, added that I’m not familiar with the writer Eric Stephenson (though I do know he is publisher of Image comics), and some critical acclaim from various sites for the series, I was interested but going into this series blind. So aside from the rebellious cover, the “Science is the new rock ‘n’ roll!” slogan, and the references to The Beatles, Nowhere Men is a vastly dense and character driven, semi-mystery series…and it has science.
NOWHERE MEN collects issues #1 – 6. Sometime in the 1960’s, four young men named Dade Ellis, Simon Grimshaw, Emerson Strange, and Thomas Walker were the smartest men on the known planet and came together to form the research group known as World Corp., which ushered in a new age of technological advancement and recognition that has even lasted into modern times. But over the years, things have changed. Thomas Walker has disappeared from public view to the point of him being legally declared dead, Simon Grimshaw has started his own company; Dade Ellis has gone into sabbatical, and Emerson Strange has become the sole figurehead of World Corp., and he’s getting old. And within World Corp., Emerson’s greatest and last projects has fallen into disarray as the people who are working on said project have contracted an unknown virus and are under quarantine until further notice. What happened during those long years no one knows about? Where did things started going wrong? What’s become of the four founding members of World Corp.?
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