by Brian ChurillaI don't know if anyone would have predicted that one of the comic book trends of 2012 would be to appropriate real historical figures and events, and incorporate them into wonderfully wild and imaginative comics that seem to lack any pretense to following the rules of reality. We see it in Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra's wonderful Manhattan Projects, and also in Brian Churilla's The Secret History of DB Cooper.
Churilla has taken the mysterious airplane hijacker of the 1970s and turned him into a CIA assassin who stalks his prey remotely through The Glut, a psychic world populated by monsters. In this issue, we learn a lot more about Cooper's family, his abilities, and the Soviet reaction to his successful string of sixty killings.
Churilla traffics in weirdness in this issue, as Cooper's hated fellow agent tries to get his project shut down just when Cooper feels close to finding his missing daughter in The Glut. We also start to see the effect that his missions are having on his physical body, something that was not supposed to be taking place. We also learn that the Soviets have an agent searching The Glut for Cooper, casting more suspicion on the loveable red teddy bear who is his companion in that strange world.
Churilla is really going nuts on the art in this series. Always inventive, he gives us a monster this issue that looks like an upside-down woman, with a mouth where her genitalia would be. I found it an immensely disturbing (and funny) image. This is a great series, and I hope that anyone reading The Manhattan Projects is also checking this out.
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