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The Bunker (comics)

comic book

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ22906972 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bunker is a comic book written by Joshua Hale Fialkov with artwork by Joe Infurnari.

A pilot television episode was announced to have been written for Lionsgate TV. In 2019, it was reported that a television series is in the works at NBC.

Plot

The world population is dying, and those responsible send a bunker back in time to warn their younger selves, in order to prevent it.

Reception

It was highly recommended by Ain't It Cool News. Newsarama gave it a 9 out of 10. Bleeding Cool called it “A beautiful comic.” Comic Vine gave it 5 stars.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Bunker (comics)” as comic book. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bunker, comics and comic can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as comic book. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22906972. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Bunker (comics)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Bunker (comics) primary sources, The Bunker (comics) archive and Bunker research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Bunker (comics)”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Bunker (comics)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.