''FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics'' is an American comic book series by Simon Oliver and Robbi Rodriguez, distributed by

Vertigo Comics Vertigo Comics, also known as DC Vertigo or simply Vertigo, was an imprint of American comic book publisher DC Comics started by editor Karen Berger in 1993. Vertigo's purpose was to publish comics with adult content, such as nudity, drug us ...

. ''FBP'' imagines a world where disturbances in the laws of physics are as common as weather, and necessitate forecasts about

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locations, momentary

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losses, and entropy reversals. With much fanfare, the government creates a new bureaucratic organization to deal with quantum disturbances, the Federal Bureau of Physics. The story follows special agent Adam Hardy as he deals with internal departmental battles and increasingly dangerous and radical quantum disasters.

Original title

Oliver and Rodriguez originally meant for the title of ''FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics'' to be ''Collider''. While Vertigo distributed the first issue under ''Collider'', beActive, an Irish comic press, took legal action and forced Vertigo to change the title. While Oliver said he was ambivalent about changing the name, the process of creating a new title allowed the creative team an opportunity to "really get back examine to the nuts and bolts, and kick the tires of what the book's really all about".

In other media

In 2014,

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was in development of a film version of ''FBP'' with Justin Marks penning the script, while produced by

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and Nellie Reed.

Collected editions

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