Five mutates from Project Next Men escape the elaborate decades-long secret experiment to find themselves in a completely unfamiliar world. During a mysterious encounter in the desert, Bethany, Nathan, Danny, Jack, and Jazz begin to realize that they have been locked in a shared fantasy-world. Now they must come to terms with the real world and their strange powers before their former captors track them down. Featuring a new painted cover by John Byrne.

Book by Tezuka, Osamu

A NEW CHAPTER begins in the lives of the survivors of Project Next Men. New friends, new foes, and a tale that literally twists time itself out of joint. They said it would never happen, but it has John Byrne has returned to his classic creation This is where it STARTS, this is where you want to BE

The Next Men, having been falsely convicted of murder, break out of jail and go underground... literally. They head for the abandoned subway tunnels of New York and find them less abandoned than everyone thought, filled with a secret community of homeless people. But they can't stay hidden forever, and when the government's forces finally track down the Next Men it becomes both an exercise in survival and a lesson in betrayal. The second volume of John Byrne's Compleat Next Men collects over 500 pages of the groundbreaking superhero series.

2112 introduces readers to the Next Men, a group of strange people battling for the future of the world—and what a world it is! Mutated "halflings" are in open revolt, led by the sinister Sathanas, and it's up to the agents of Safeguard, Inc. to sort out the mess! Don't miss the future beyond the Next Men in 2112!