Chrononauts #1 Review

writer: Mark Millar / artist: Sean Gordon Murphy / Image Comics Remember The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror V? Let me refresh your memory – Homer travels back in time via a time machine toaster, and every decision he makes, no matter how small, changes the future. Now let’s put on our chaos theory hats: a butterfly flaps its wings in New Mexico and the ripple of that simple action can cause a hurricane in China, so even a dolt like Homer can accidentally kill off the dinosaurs with a sneeze. Time travel is serious business. But what would happen if it weren’t an accidental dimwit like Homer interacting with the past, but two intentional and ambitious minds? Introduce Doctor Corbin Quinn and Dudebro Danny Reilly and we have a vague semblance of Mark Millar’s new Chrononauts. The series begins with Corbin in southeast Turkey where a local guide shows him an amazing sight within the ancient ruins: an F-14 Tomcat. Now how’d a fighter jet get to be inside a structure that pre-dates Stonehenge? The tour guide is baffled. “You have to remember, this pre-dates modern tools, Doctor Quinn. This was before man even had pottery.” And thus begins the 8th season of Ancient Aliens on the History channel. But for Quinn and Reilly, it validates their hope that time travel will happen – rather, has happened – and they’re on the right track. Eighteen months later they’re in front of the lights and cameras to share their breakthrough with the world. They’re humbled to go on their first mission.

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