Black Science (comics)
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| Publisher | Image Comics |
| Schedule | monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
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| Created by | Rick Remender |
| Written by | Rick Remender |
| Penciller(s) | Matteo Scalera |
| Inker(s) | Matteo Scalera |
| Colorist(s) | Dean White |
Black Science is a creator-owned American comic book series by Rick Remender and Italian artist Matteo Scalera. Image Comics released the first issue in November 2013. The story follows Grant McKay, an ex-member of the Anarchist Order of Scientists, and his team as they are thrown through dimensional barriers to alien worlds while they try to repair the Pillar and return home. His invention, the Pillar, is a piece of technology that allowed McKay and his team to travel between the dimensions with the use of Black Science. Using the Pillar, McKay and his fellow "Dimensionauts" leap between worlds at will, taking anything they want for the benefit of their home reality. A member of Grant's team sabotages the pillar, causing it to jump to random locations at random times, the group is left stranded between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds, struggling for survival.
The first several issues of Black Science sold out of first printings at the distributor level, and Image announced that certain issues would be reprinted.
Grant McKay, former member of The Anarchistic Order of Scientists, has finally done the impossible: He has deciphered Black Science and punched through the barriers of reality. Grant theorizes that each alternate reality of what he calls the 'Eververse' is like an onion. Pierce into each and you discover a new dimension, one based an infinite variety of choices made by everyone everywhere. What lies at the center is perhaps the primal universe that started it all. What lies beyond the veil is not epiphany, however, but chaos. Now Grant and his team are lost; living ghosts shipwrecked on an infinite ocean of alien worlds, barreling through the long-forgotten, ancient, and unimaginable dark realms. The only way is forward.
Run-amok reality! Grant and his crew escape the madness of the lightning sea-swamp only to be flung into a futurepast trenchworld, where the Sons of the Wakan Tech-Tanka - a high tech version of Native Americans who wage never-ending war on the savages of Europe in a kind of reverse Manifest Destiny. The Anarchist League of Scientists ended up this deep in the onion because someone among them sabotaged the Pillar. Shell-shocked and battered, Grant McKay and his team are stranded on the front lines of the European savages' final standoff against the Sons of the Wakan Tech-Tanka.
McKay and his team of Dimensionauts are given a short reprieve when the Pillar drops them into a surreal hotel. McKay encounters doppelgangers of himself and his wife, who lost their children using the pillar. They now want this Grant McKay's children as replacements. But the real Grant will not let that happen without a fight.
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