William Gibson's Archangel

Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Award-winning sf novelist Gibson (Neuromancer) makes his first foray into comics with this tale combining the intrigue of a World War II spy thriller with thought-provoking, unabashedly political sf. When the RAF's Naomi Givens is called away from her normal duties maneuvering between her own government, the U.S. military, and the Russians in 1945 Berlin in order to investigate a possible UFO crash, she's drawn into a war among agents from a future, authoritarian United States hoping to rewrite history to their own advantage. While a few different illustrators grace these pages, they share a gritty sensibility and ability to capture scenes of World War II devastation and futuristic, far-out design, weaving back and forth in time as the action escalates quickly. Soon a cast that includes heroic soldiers, brutish villains, colorful smugglers, and a diminutive, hairless crime boss named Mr. Baby are all angling for the upper hand.