DC's Helix imprint seems dedicated to publishing comics with a more serious science fictional bent to them. Time Breakers grabbed my attention because it focuses on one of my favorite science fictional notions: Time paradoxes. But it does so in an interesting way, by positing the idea that all great steps of progress through history are the result of such paradoxes. To this end, the Time Breakers were formed to help create such paradoxes.

Of course, the concept quickly becomes self-referential, as the Time Breakers themselves were created by result of a paradox: A mysterious Traveller recruited a man named Josiah Sung and introduced him to the Paradox Pond, the site early in Earth's history where the Breakers are headquartered. After learning about the time travel resources there, Sung becomes the Traveller and recruits himself - and later others. Indeed, the story's protagonist, Angela Attenborough, recruits herself into the Breakers from 1960s Europe.

The concept may sound complicated, but Pollack turns it into a quite comprehensible story, as the Breakers fight against their opposite number - foes who are opposed to the concept of paradoxes - and strive to discover the great paradox which first created life on Earth. Weston aims for a very realistic style of artwork and wields a clean line on the page, although his layouts often seem a bit stiff. The spiffy coloring helps alleviate this somewhat, and the resulting package looks quite nice.

Time Breakers was a 5-issue limited series, and all five issues have been published.