Bosch and FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics

Last night, or rather this morning, I was up watching a series whose pilot I'd watched a few months ago on Amazon, based on the crime novels by Michael Connelly. L.A.P.D. Detective Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch (Titus Welliver) is called in to investigate some bones found by a dog in the Hollywood Hills.

Ably supported by an excellent cast (including Jamie Hector as his partner and Lance Reddick as his ambitious and more political boss, both actors from The Wire), Welliver looks very suited to the role and the story is excellent, as you would expect from the author of The Lincoln Lawyer. The only complaint is that when there's a deviation from the main character, it does feel somewhat artificial and contrived. Overall, though, it's an enjoyable, if conventional, series. I even like theme tune.

I'm also reading a Trade Paperback from Vertigo about an agency that fixes breakdowns in the fabric of reality. Trying to determine what happened to his father in a "quantum tornado", Adam Hardy joins the Federal Bureau of Physics and, with his partner Jay Kelly, gets caught in a bubble universe trying to rescue a financial fraudster.

I'm always looking for comics that break out of the conventions of the genre and this is no exception. Written by Simon Oliver (Story), Robbi Rodriguez and Rico Renzi (Artwork), it's just one roller-coaster of weirdness, but intriguing and entertaining in equal measure. And not a super-hero or zombie in sight.