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The Nobel prizewinning physicist and prolific science writer Richard Feynman was well known as a comic character. Now he鈥檚 a comic-book character.

is the latest offering from science-themed comic-writer . It follows a meticulously researched thread through the great man鈥檚 scientific and personal life.

With lucid line art and a charming colour palette, artist depicts Feynman鈥檚 experiences from childhood through his first forays into university physics, research into the atomic bomb, Nobel prize win in 1965 and death in 1988.

The text draws heavily on Feynman鈥檚 own writings: fans will recognise his words from lectures, books and speeches. Highlights include Feynman鈥檚 safe-cracking adventures in Los Alamos, New Mexico, his doomed fight to save his favourite topless dancing bar, and his clumsy attempts at learning to draw.

Though the dedication to primary sources is admirable, at moments it seems the creators have struggled to fit too much in, so that overall the narrative reads like a disjointed collection of Feynman鈥檚 鈥済reatest hits鈥�.

No doubt Feynman will inspire budding physicists to take an interest in his writings, but the book fails to tap into the potential visual dynamism of the comic-book medium. By taking a rather literal approach to a graphic biography of a theorist who dealt in abstractions, Ottaviani and Myrick may have missed a trick.