You know, this “first” issue of FBP feels like the mediocre second episode of a TV series after an awesome pilot episode–the title change (from Collider is due to DC apparently not doing any legal research… they’re too busy suing Siegel and Shuster’s families for damages). The comic’s okay, it’s just nothing special.
The pacing is also way off. He wastes about half the issue on exposition, then gets his two main characters into this incredibly interesting parallel universe bubble and… then the issue stops. Given how he wastes the early pages, he could have done a lot more.
But it’s not just Oliver. Rodriguez seems to be doing a lot less work too. There are a lot of white space backgrounds–to focus on the foreground figures, I’m sure one could argue, but it just feels really lazy. And a second issue isn’t the place to get lazy.
CREDITS
The Paradigm Shift, Part Two; writer, Simon Oliver; artist, Robbi Rodriguez; colorist, Rico Renzi; letterer, Steve Wands; editors, Sara Miller and Mark Doyle; publisher, Vertigo.
The Stop Button 
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