The Megas is a 5-issue mini-series from Virgin Comics and film director Jonathan Mostow

Jonathan Mostow

Jonathan Mostow is an American film director, writer and producer.-Biography:A graduate of Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut and Harvard, Mostow also trained at the American Repertory Company and New York City's Lee Strasberg Institute...

 (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, commonly abbreviated as T3, is a 2003 science fiction action film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes and Kristanna Loken...

, U-571). Mostow is already reported to be developing the property into a feature film.

Credits

The Megas was created by Jonathan Mostow

Jonathan Mostow

Jonathan Mostow is an American film director, writer and producer.-Biography:A graduate of Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut and Harvard, Mostow also trained at the American Repertory Company and New York City's Lee Strasberg Institute...

, and is written by John Harrison

John Harrison

John Harrison was a self-educated English clockmaker. He invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought device in solving the problem of establishing the East-West position or longitude of a ship at sea, thus revolutionising and extending the possibility of safe long distance sea travel in the Age...

, with art by Peter Rubin

Peter Rubin

Sir Peter Charles Rubin is the current Chair of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, replacing Professor Sir Graeme Catto on 20 April 2009....

 and color by S. Periaswamy. The story is by Mostow and Harrison.

Plot

The Megas explores what might have happened had the founding fathers of the United States established another aristocracy rather than a democracy. The eponymous Megas are the elite members of the American Royalty, a somewhat benevolent but dictatorial ruling class. Now, in the 21st Century, the Megas have ruled America

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 for over 200 years. Mostow described the story for Variety

Variety (magazine)

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The story "revolves around Detective Jack Madison and his race-against-the-clock investigation to uncover secrets behind the mysterious sex-fueled suicide of a Prince in The Megas royal family. Meanwhile, the King is on his deathbed at The White Palace (yes, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!), and society is bracing for the inevitable chaos that will surely ensue once he dies.

External links

• Mostow talks "The Megas" at Virgin Comics, Comic Book Resources
  Comic Book Resources
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  , February 28, 2008
• Jonathan Mostow talks about The Megas, Newsarama
  Newsarama
  Newsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews and essays about the American comic book industry.-History:Newsarama began in Summer 1995 as a series of Internet forum postings on the Prodigy comic-book message boards by fan Mike Doran. In these short messages. Doran shared...
  
  , February 29, 2008