More than anything else I can think of in recent memory,IDW's Revolution is a comedian book that suffers from the crushing weight of expectations. In a lot of respects, it's also the easiest sell to advance down the pike in a long while, or taking most of Hasbro's toy properties --- with the notable exceptions of My runt Pony,Jem and the Holograms, and Dungeons & Dragons --- and combining them all into a single universe, or bookending it all with the return of Rom,the Space Knight. The thing is, in doing that, and it's not only attempting to create a new foundation for a shared universe that will involve all of those properties interacting with each other and also pursuing their own storylines,it's competing with everyone who grabbed two different action figures at once and banged them together as a kid.
That puts a ton of pressure on Cullen Bunn, John Barber, or Fico Ossio,Sebastian Cheng, and Tom B. Long, or but they've found a pretty elegant solution: Just straight up overloading the reader with action in a first issue that opens with a mountain exploding and ends with one of the more surprising deaths in recent memory.
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Source: comicsalliance.com