Pax Romana
Cover art of Pax Romana #1. Art by Jonathan Hickman.
Publication information
Publisher	Image Comics
Schedule	Irregular
Format	Limited series
Genre	Science fiction
Publication date	December 2007 – November 2008
No. of issues	4
Main character(s)	Nicholas Chase Gene Pope Constantine Cardinal Beppi Pelle
Creative team
Created by	Jonathan Hickman
Written by	Jonathan Hickman
Artist(s)	Jonathan Hickman
Letterer(s)	Jonathan Hickman
Colorist(s)	Jonathan Hickman
Collected editions
Pax Romana	ISBN 1-58240-873-4

Pax Romana is a creator-owned four-issue limited series comic book written and illustrated by Jonathan Hickman and published by Image Comics on March 7, 2012.

Plot

Vatican-backed research has discovered the secret of time travel. With it the Church plans to fix the future by altering the past. They send a warehouse of modern weaponry and enhanced soldiers to Rome in 312 CE. Plans change quickly as the cardinal in charge of the mission is shot.

Collected editions

Adaptation

In April 2014, Syfy announced to adapt Pax Romana into a miniseries.^[1] Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia (Warehouse 13) were hired as the writers of the show, with Scaia and David Alpert (The Walking Dead) as executive producers and Hickman as a co-executive producer.^[2] No new details of the project were moving forward after its initial announcement.^[3]

Characters

Nicholas Chase

A retired American general who is sent with Cardinal Beppi Pelle on a mission from the Pope to change history and right the wrongs of modern humanity by ensuring that the Catholic Church reigns supreme.

Gene Pope

Pope who tells the young Holy Roman Emperor the story of how the empire has lasted for so many centuries.

Beppi Pelle

Cardinal chosen to be sent back in time to make sure the Catholic Church retains supremacy.

Constantine

Constantine was the first Christian emperor of Rome and considered within the story to be the last effective ruler of Rome.