Atomic Empire

By Thierry Smolderen & Alexandre Clerisse. Published by IDW. 

Hardcover, 144 pages, Colour, 2018. 

Tomorrow... is just 121,000 years away! An astonishing and captivating original graphic novel inspired by a real psychological case, Atomic Empireis both a psychiatric enigma and a space opera immersed in the fluid and aerodynamic imagery of 1950s sci-fi.

1953: The world has entered the age of the Atom, but one man wonders what it means for civilization. His name is Paul--a government research specialist who, since childhood, has been in telepathic contact with a hero from the distant future. But when a mysterious consultant begins to take an interest in him, "the man who communicates with the future" will commit an unforgivable sin and break an oath to his friend Zarth Arn, hero of the Galactic Empire.