That's What I'm Talking About!

Time Bomb tpb
Radical Comics
Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, writers
Paul Gulacy, artist
***mature content warning***

Happy New Year, everyone!

This is an incredible done-in-one trade telling a very cinematic action movie type of tale that gets the blood pumping and makes you want to finish the book in one sitting.

A civil works project in modern-day Berlin accidentally uncovers a massive underground facility, almost the size of an entire city. Agents from several governments are quickly dispatched to determine the purpose and origin of this astounding find. But they unwittingly trigger what is believed to be a Nazi doomsday device left over from World War II.

A missile launches only to explode after climbing about a mile into the atmosphere. That explosion releases an airborne virus that is killing the entire population of Berlin, and spreading outward from there. It is quickly estimated that the human race has about 60 hours of existence left on this planet.

Fortunately for the world, a little-known U.S. government project has proven that time travel is possible. Unfortunately, the process isn't exactly perfected.

A team of four adventurers is chosen and assembled to be sent back in time, but as it is explained to them, the scientists in charge have very little control about destination time. The formulas involved are little more than guesswork. The quartet is being sent back sometime before the doomsday device was triggered, armed with government contact names and numbers for several decades and video proof of what has happened. The hope is that they can convince the powers that be whenever they materialize to find the device and disable it in the past before its destruction can be unleashed. And they have just 24 hours to complete that mission before the time travel is reversed and they are yanked back into the present.

Oh, and there's the unsettling fact that the time travel device is called a "time bomb." Not the most comforting of names.

If only things had gone according to plan.

If you like action/adventure and/or science fiction, check out this book. You'll be glad you did!