Why do you think folks have such a hard time believing in space stuff? Do either of you hold any doubts about the ‘official’ version of space history?Īndrea Sorrentino: I think, being Italian, it’s honestly quite interesting to me to see it from ‘outside’ because we really have a minimal part in this fascinating story and we lived it mainly as a viewer. There are a lot of doubts/conspiracies about space travel. Of taking these real work events as a starting point and then changing history and adding these big sci-fiction ideas on top of the real events and imagining how that would change everything we know. I loved the idea of playing with history. And there is still, to me, a sense of mystery around them too. Jeff Lemire: You’re dead on when you say “mystique.” These events, for some of us born later, do have an almost mythic quality to them. What was it about that era that made a good setting for this story? Jeff - the space race is a time that, for those of us who weren’t alive and/or paying attention in the early 60s, has a mystique that is pretty unique across recent history. Thanks to Image for facilitating this chat, and make sure to pick up the first issue on September 15! But, unbeknownst to everyone, they did not die in orbit…they were taken. Two years later, the USA responded with two monkeys, Able and Baker.

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