12/31/2022 0 Comments Paradigm shift comic![]() ![]() Hardy junior has grown into your typical, lovable rogue agent. The story flashes forward to “present” day. “Given the right conditions,” he says, in his parting words, “the impossible’s always possible.” This is a phrase that will appear throughout the series, most notably as the innocuous platitude of a potentially evil corporation. In a videotaped message to his newborn son, Hardy senior emphasizes that he’s on the brink of a massive scientific breakthrough that will shake the core of established scientific laws. Adam’s wayward scientist father has sequestered both himself and his team in the middle of a Mexican desert. ![]() The first few pages act as a prologue of sorts. The organization is a specialized government division designed to deal with any physics-related issues (much is made of the fact that whenever someone calls 911, the operator always asks if the emergency is “fire, ambulance, police or physics”). Set in an alternate reality where the laws of physics have been “broken” and gravity failures, entropy loops and wormholes appear with the frequency of bad weather, our protagonist, Adam Hardy, works as an agent at the Federal Bureau of Physics. In other words, some will embrace it while others will merely scratch their heads in confusion. ![]() It’s a proverbial orgy of fast-paced action, mind-bending scientific notions and swirling, surrealist color schemes. FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics - or Collider, as it was previously known before a legally-forced name change - reads almost like the comic book version of a network police procedural, filtered through the mind of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. ![]()
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