FBP: Federal Bureau Of Physics Vol. 1: The Paradigm Shift (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
This is a book filled to overflowing with crazy ideas. In a world where Physics can't be trusted to follow the rules we've always believed in, there's a new department like firefighters that takes care of the situations. It's a wild concept, and the ways that it is explored are equally wild and creative. Bubble environments, quantum tornadoes, slow-time fields, all come into play. Adam Hardy is an interesting character (although Reyes is even more fascinating in her fairly brief presence in this volume), and the art style is very colorful and unique; going for evocative over realistic, which fits the story and landscape. The last issue in this collection best illustrates the power of the concept, and is nearly mesmerizing in its quirkiness. This is up there with the Manhattan Projects in sheer imaginative power, a story that revels in the forms of the comic and probably couldn't be portrayed in any other medium nearly as well. Entire book based on technobabble? Check. Knee-jerk anti-business Message? Check And the anti-hero has to be an Arab, because "an American wouldn't get far in science." The other way around, that would be called "racist". (Or maybe the writer doesn't know that "Palestinians" are Arab. Summary: For "the idiot who praises, in enthusiastic tone/All continents but this, and every culture but his own."
What do You think about FBP: Federal Bureau Of Physics Vol. 1: The Paradigm Shift (2014)?
This is pretty decent. Great coloring! I will read the next one if the library gets it...
—kateypoo
I bought this today on a whim and highly enjoyed it. Better review to come soon :)
—moncullens
Really fresh comic, I like the story a lot and I want to know more right now.
—danielle
