Author: Simon Oliver
Publisher: Warner Bros (DC Comics)
Rating: WORTHY!
Art work: Robbi Rodriguez.
Colors: Rico Renzi.
Letters: Steve Wands.
Volume two begins with news of dismantling of public FBP facilities and another physics problem. One guys asks for a neutrino scrub. What the heck that means, I have no idea. Neutrinos almost never interact with other particles. Scientist have to build elaborate neutrino traps deep underground to catch the handful of them that actually do bump into things. Any given one of them could go right through the Earth without hitting a thing, so the very idea of a neutrino scrub is nonsensical. What are the scrubbing? Neutrinos? There are none there to scrub. Are they scrubbing with neutrinos? How does that work given that neutrinos pretty much pass through everything?
Is the Earth exactly 93 million miles from the sun?! No! But I’ll let them get away with that, because in this volume, we meet Professor Sen, who is a male to female transsexual, so continued kudos for having a variety of characters in this novel. Unfortunately, that’s rather offset by the fact that this volume is a lot less structured than was volume one. I had a hard time following parts of it. It does bring a really interesting revelation which has all the hallmarks of being cribbed from the movie That Matrix, but which nonetheless raises the stakes a bit.
Despite being a bit frustrated with the switching back and forth, and one or two minor issues with the science, I still enjoyed this, and I'm looking forward to the next issue. Main characters Adam Hardy and Rosa Reyes continue to intrigue and engross, and the story continues to be worth following.
The art work is distinctive and bold, and the coloring is superb. The artist uses the full page and evidently hates wasting tress, which is always a plus in my book. The text is still a bit too small to be easily legible in ebook format. I think we're reaching the tipping-point where the graphic novel writers and artists are going to have to decide which format they're writing for and change their approach accordingly. I continue to recommend this series.
