FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics #2 – Review

By: Simon Oliver (story), Robbi Rodriguez (art), Rico Renzi (colors)

The Story: And now, for the ol’ shooting a man from a particle collider trick.

The Review: I think I speak for quite a few other people when I say that coming up with a name for something, anything, is probably one of the most annoying tasks for a project.  You’re trying to hit on something that sounds snappy enough to subconsciously stick in people’s brains, that’s not cheesy or lame or cliché, and that also encapsulates—or at least suggests—the core of your work.  That’s a lot of baggage for what is really the least important part of a story.

So I imagine Oliver was none too plussed to discover that someone else already had dibs on Collider, forcing him to make a quick name-change to the clearly inferior FBP.  Collider had a nice ring to it, and besides instantly conveying a sense of action and conflict, also had appropriately scientific connotations as well.  FBP, on the other hand, is a dry blurb that reveals and implies nothing, especially to the person scanning the stands for a new comic to read.