Page 45 Review by Jonathan
"How can anything matter when every possible thing happens?"
I can't help but feel this is the sixties television show Lost In Space, with a dash of Quantum Leap thrown for good measure, re-imagined in as twisted fashion as possible by someone who has taken the entire run of classic pulp titles WEIRD SCIENCE and WEIRD FANTASTY, performed some Dadaist cut-up of every plot device ever contained within said titles, and then randomly deployed them upon his characters, and indeed readership, at his deranged will. This is good.
Once again, I am left to ponder if Matteo Scalera and Sean Murphy are indeed one and the same person. Or maybe Grant McKay, the now missing leader of the Anarchistic League of Scientists, has used his Black Science technology to kidnap Sean Murphy from an alternate reality, brainwash him into believing he is an Italian called Matteo Scalera, and left him here. This too is good.
Expect to be confused and bemused. This is rip-roaring, utter science fiction nonsense which is as joyfully ridiculous as Hickman's MANHATTAN PROJECTS. The lost in space Anarchist League Of Scientists 'Dimensionauts' are right up to their mutually loathing, proverbial necks in it, fighting amongst themselves as telepathic millipedes and hairless simians vie for the right to eat them. Only some strange, laser-welding long-haired aboriginal human types stand between them and a certain date with dinner.
Meanwhile, where is Grant McKay? Why, busy fending off a doppelganger that's just appeared and wants to steal his children, though fortunately not to eat them! Kidnapping is probably preferable to consumption, mind you. Also, just to really up the confusion factor, it seems alien races from other universes have also been experimenting with Black Science reality-skipping technologies, and that the uncontrollable randomness of our team's jumps might not be so chaotic after all. There's patterns emerging, in every dimension apparently, according to the man himself, and if anyone knows what to do, it's Grant McKay. Everyone else, meanwhile, myself included, hasn't got a clue what's going on! There's only one thing for it, as Grant McKay himself says...
"We have to go to the centre of the onion..."
