Despite having made strides forward between seasons one and two, Revolution - the NBC sci-fi drama about a near-future America without electricity - is still a show that's incredibly limited by its budget restraints and blinkered vision of the future. So far we've seen a tiny fraction of the world described by the show's premise, and by focusing on one family and the surrounding characters we're missing out on the many more interesting stories that could be told if the scope was bigger. Wouldn't a comic version of this story solve all of these problems? No budgetary concerns (and thus no shoddy action sequences shot on go-pros) or problems telling stories in vastly different locations; you want to tell three interlocking stories set in New York, Mexico and Alaska? No problem. You want a fully-realised post-apocalyptic world? You can get it all for the price of an artist's time and their art supplies. Not being tied to a network that wants to keep ratings high and changes their mind about what the show is every other week would also give the creators the freedom to tell the story at their own pace without being tied to stifling 22+ episode seasons and the plot might have progressed at a significantly less plodding rate than in the first half of the show so far and Revolution could have retained a core fanbase instead of shedding viewers week by week.
