Scientific fields
When it comes to smarts, it’s fab – the Fab Four
Ieric Stephenson Nate Bellegarde
Image comics “Science is the new rock and roll.” – Thomas Walker of World Corp. MAGINE if the Beatles weren’t musicians, but scientists. Imagine that instead of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, they had a space station in the sky with a virus. Imagine a world where scientists are rock stars, celebrated and adored by the masses.
Now, imagine that these celebrated scientists actually ACTED like rock stars, letting all that fame, fortune and power get to their heads, influencing every world-altering decision they make, and basically getting into trouble and making a mess of everything.
That’s the premise of Nowhere Men, which, as you probably guessed, is named after the Fab Four’s song. Dade Ellis, Simon Grimshaw, Emerson Strange and Thomas Walker are four of the greatest scientists of all time, and together, they are the research supergroup World Corp.
Spanning issues #1-#6 of the Image Comics series, this first story arc takes some time to get going, with Stephenson focusing a lot on building a world where scientists are rock stars, and science is everything.
He cleverly divides the story VALIANT Comics, which went out of business about 12 years ago, made a comeback under new ownership in 2012. And it only took the new guys two years to achieve Unity.
Unity is the name of Valiant’s version of the Avengers or the Justice League – it’s a book that features the publisher’s major heroes, all in one title. But that’s selling the book short, because Unity acts like no team book I’ve ever read.
For one thing, not all of Valiant’s big guns are in the book – and for the most part,