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The Fifth Force
Sometimes the only path forward is through the past.
Two things you need to The earth is dying and time travel is real. We have exhausted, no, abused, the fossil fuels of this planet and now we're facing a self-inflicted extinction level event. Our only hope, my team of Time Inflectors must travel back in time in order to save all of our futures.
Earth is on the verge of extinction. We have limited crude oil and our primary fuel sources are negligible. The carbon clouds signal the end of our species. We have but a few leave the planet… or fix it.
We are the TFA, a special Canada-based agency that stumbled across a revolutionary discovery. The fifth Elemental force. Time.
We built a freaking time machine based on the new physical sciences, believing we can go back to the “inflection points” of this extinction level event and fix things.
The irony here is that the fuel we need to operate the invention, is the very fuel that led us to this juncture.
Even with the precautions in place we only have enough for a limited number of time jumps, 5 to be exact.
To make things even more difficult, time travel has a few additional “restrictions” as the discovery of time as a fundamental force provides a Quantum and Physical science sandbox. This means that the tachyons that interact with matter do so similarly to protons and neutrons; they cannot engage in something that would create a paradox.
In layman's terms, they prohibit certain interactions between those from the future and those in the present.
I’m Doctor Malik Fikai, one of the three Inflectors tasked with going back and fixing this mess before it happens, otherwise our future is history.
“The Fifth Force is a clever, educational read and will be the perfect book to study in either science or art classes” - Darryll Robson Monkeys Fighting Robots
Two things you need to The earth is dying and time travel is real. We have exhausted, no, abused, the fossil fuels of this planet and now we're facing a self-inflicted extinction level event. Our only hope, my team of Time Inflectors must travel back in time in order to save all of our futures.
Earth is on the verge of extinction. We have limited crude oil and our primary fuel sources are negligible. The carbon clouds signal the end of our species. We have but a few leave the planet… or fix it.
We are the TFA, a special Canada-based agency that stumbled across a revolutionary discovery. The fifth Elemental force. Time.
We built a freaking time machine based on the new physical sciences, believing we can go back to the “inflection points” of this extinction level event and fix things.
The irony here is that the fuel we need to operate the invention, is the very fuel that led us to this juncture.
Even with the precautions in place we only have enough for a limited number of time jumps, 5 to be exact.
To make things even more difficult, time travel has a few additional “restrictions” as the discovery of time as a fundamental force provides a Quantum and Physical science sandbox. This means that the tachyons that interact with matter do so similarly to protons and neutrons; they cannot engage in something that would create a paradox.
In layman's terms, they prohibit certain interactions between those from the future and those in the present.
I’m Doctor Malik Fikai, one of the three Inflectors tasked with going back and fixing this mess before it happens, otherwise our future is history.
“The Fifth Force is a clever, educational read and will be the perfect book to study in either science or art classes” - Darryll Robson Monkeys Fighting Robots
144 pages, Paperback
Published November 8, 2022
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February 28, 2023
Am I the first person to review this on GR? Wild, if true.
This is a time travel saga with a very specific mission and values: save the future of Earth from the slow-boiling frog of climate change and resource depletion. Some of the characters felt a little thin, but on the whole the message and stunning art helped bring it home a winner. Congrats to all involved!
This is a time travel saga with a very specific mission and values: save the future of Earth from the slow-boiling frog of climate change and resource depletion. Some of the characters felt a little thin, but on the whole the message and stunning art helped bring it home a winner. Congrats to all involved!
June 15, 2023
3.5 stars. This ended up being decent. In a future time line, people have run earth’s resources dry and destroyed the ozone layer. In order to fix this problem, they have experimented with the fifth elemental force, time, and created time travel. The goal is to go back to certain parts of the past where they feel like they can change something that can put the world on a new path to a better tomorrow using clean energy. They are limited tho. The time machine only has enough fuel for three time jumps. So, can’t get it wrong too many times. The first 3 issues were rolling along fine and were actually pretty good. However, there was a plot shift halfway through the story where I felt like after that, the story started moving too fast, making a dash to the ending. The book probably could have gotten 4 stars had this been longer like 10 issues. Dive deeper into the shift and give us more details about the new character they discover later on. His backstory and how he got to where he was. Plus add a little more drama to the ending. With what they discovered the were going to have to do, I feel like more emotional weight needed to be there. But still a solid story.
March 31, 2023
2.5 stars
I liked this well enough and I totally agree with the writers wanting to try and promote the core message of this book: how to avoid the impending climate crisis from becoming a world-ending crisis, by empowering people to act NOW to affect change and enable the embrace of positive action worldwide...but the execution didn't quite work for me, for 3 main reasons really: first the introduction of "The First Inflector" in the shape of Oliver "Olie" Le who comes out of left field in 1883. A full on Deus Ex Machina character who moves the action in new, interesting way, but WTF?!? Where the hell did he come from...? How...? But that's never really answered. Secondly, the fact that due to Olie's unlimited energy source they're able to move The Director and "The Facility" "off the grid". It's just one line of dialogue and then everything just moves on. Lastly, where the hell are all the technicians and scientists that made the time travelling orbs; we get to see them on the very first page, but then they all disappear, never to be seen again.
I liked the art, but overall I was somewhat disappointed...
I liked this well enough and I totally agree with the writers wanting to try and promote the core message of this book: how to avoid the impending climate crisis from becoming a world-ending crisis, by empowering people to act NOW to affect change and enable the embrace of positive action worldwide...but the execution didn't quite work for me, for 3 main reasons really: first the introduction of "The First Inflector" in the shape of Oliver "Olie" Le who comes out of left field in 1883. A full on Deus Ex Machina character who moves the action in new, interesting way, but WTF?!? Where the hell did he come from...? How...? But that's never really answered. Secondly, the fact that due to Olie's unlimited energy source they're able to move The Director and "The Facility" "off the grid". It's just one line of dialogue and then everything just moves on. Lastly, where the hell are all the technicians and scientists that made the time travelling orbs; we get to see them on the very first page, but then they all disappear, never to be seen again.
I liked the art, but overall I was somewhat disappointed...
November 16, 2024
I like the message, art is fine to good.
The sequential art storytelling isn't up to scratch. The flow isn't there. Panel layouts don't always work.
Pretty heavy handed, but probably good for younger people to learn about the world and consequences of our action and inaction, as well as corporations.
Read digitally.
The sequential art storytelling isn't up to scratch. The flow isn't there. Panel layouts don't always work.
Pretty heavy handed, but probably good for younger people to learn about the world and consequences of our action and inaction, as well as corporations.
Read digitally.
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