Science is definitely the new Rock 'n' Roll

Nowhere Men #1

We've been waiting for this bad boy pretty much since it's announcement, why? Not only does it combine 3 of my ultimate favourite things - Art, Comics AND Science, but writer Eric Stephenson has really dominated my comic world this year with all the Ah-mazing releases comin straight outta Image Comics (Saga, Mind the Gap...). But also, the artist- Nate Bellegarde is a comic art babe.

So what the hell is 'Nowhere Men'? As it stands, it is the story of 4 scientists - Simon Grimshaw, Emerson Strange, Dade Allis and Thomas Walker, who are the nations most well regarded sweethearts.They band together to create the ultimate science alliance - World Corp. Whilst this has created some amazing changes, there have definitely been some negative effects.

Simple, unassuming, yet awesome.

In the first half of the story Stephenson and Bellegarde waste no time presenting you with the 4 main characters younger and at the height of their fame, and they work well to present each of their personalities through a simple head shot and some very clever wording. Any more info is displayed perfectly in the first double spread as a faux newspaper article and after that we know pretty much everything we need to know about who these men are on the surface - Simon: the stone cold businessman, Emerson: the calm, chillaxed intellectual, Dade: the uptight but artistic do-gooder, and Simon: the troubled genius stoner.

Fast forward a few years, the guys are older and it's obvious that somewhere down the line it all went wrong and the early pages are just fantastic. Bellegardes work says everything it needs to and these pages work brilliantly without the dialogue.

The second half of the story presents further troubles on the horizon - with the random and un-explainable illness of a team of crew members. Again, I pretty much loved these pages. Seriously, Stephenson is really good at illustrating a persons personality and potential role within the bigger picture in only a few words, but yet retains the perfect element of mystery.

And just went you thought that was over, the final section returns to the faux newspaper article style, but this time it covers an interview with only one of the scientists - Thomas Walker, who we now know has departed from the group, although we're not really sure when and why, all we know is that he's pretty nuts.

None of these sections really seem to make sense yet in regards to how they will fit together. But I feel like all the wheels have been set in motion and that its only a matter of time before all their paths cross and we can start to build the full story. Whatever it is, we're pretty sure it's gonna be awesome, and we're definitely sticking along for the ride

What would doom do?
He'd cower in the corner ruing the day he ever called himself a real scientist with these geeked up Beatles running around. It's time he sat back to see how it's really done.