In 1986 comics artist Mike Weller is left complete manuscripts, artworks, typescripts and collected published works of 1930s pulp magazine writer, Ed Mogil.
Mike finds himself with ten-year mission bringing Mogil’s characters to renewed life. Mike frames the stories through ‘good’ and ‘evil’ comic book superheroes and supervillains – the Cosmic Crusaders vs the Duke of Hell. Stories are framed within another story – Weller’s four-dimensional alterity dreams and space voyages soundtracked by 20th century rock and roll and pop music. A strange space opera.
Twenty years on; with better understanding of Hubble volume, many worlds, bubble, ergodicity, string theories – Mick Weller makes three discoveries
i) Four versions of himself, Mike or Mick, Michael, MJ and Michael John - co-existing in similar realities - is not unlike four-level metaverses of astrophysics
ii) Mogil’s notion of 9 + 1+ levels of seen/unseen Realities is not unlike 10+ dimensional string theory
iii) The Cosmic Squad’s fairy-tale combination of numbers Key to the Universe is not unlike equation-key to solving measure problem of multi dimensions
