| Contributed by
"William E. Emba"
A six-issue series, one of the best of the retro comics out
there. this is Moore's ingenious pastiche of Marvel comics in
the critical (for Marvel and for the world) year 1963. Strange
things are happening, pointing to mysterious visitors from 1993.
Along the way a 4-D villain wrecks havok with the Hypernaut
(who lives aboard a Penrose triangle shaped satellite), in a
way that intelligently illustrates the fourth dimension (with
many 4-D effects accomplished by treating the 2-D panels in an
Escher-like way), and with the Hypernaut defeating the villain
by exploiting his own 3-D nature.
Elsewhere in the series are also graphs explaining time travel,
a remarkable example of Galilean relativity, and left-right
reversals.
The fake fan letters in the back include one complaining about
an inaccuracy in the Hypernaut's math, which gets a weaselly
response.
The series is marred in that it was supposed to have a whopping
giant-sized conclusion, but it didn't happen, and it is now
lingering in legal limbo. But the issues are greatly enjoyable
as is.
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