Comics

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Spider-Man Has Been Shot!

This entry was posted in Comics Health Care on March 24, 2008 by Steve

Here is the scene* in the emergency room:

Can you figure out the problem with this picture before heading over here to find out?

*Ultimate Spider-Man #30 “Emergency”
Brian Michael Bendis, writer;
Mark Bagley, penciler

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Are You An Aquaman Fan?

This entry was posted in Comics on March 9, 2008 by Steve

If so check out Tegan’s new Aquaman WIKI.

Via Eric.

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Acid Substitute

This entry was posted in Comics Education Religion Science Science Fiction on June 7, 2005 by Steve

PZ Myers has found a non-chemical inducer of a bad acid trip:

My cortical neurons were arcing and snapping and dying with agonized wails from the first page; it’s like the dark book of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred to rational people, where words writhe in insane alien geometries and infiltrate the mind of the reader, leading to madness and death and worse-than-death.

Caveat Lector!

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Stupid?

This entry was posted in Comics Culture Humor Politics Science on February 23, 2005 by Steve

I struggled a bit trying to categorize this post: science, politics, culture, humor, or? It touches on them all and I chuckled (and, yes, groaned) as I read the original material:
Dean, at Powerline, leaps to the defense of Hindrocket in a post titled “Call me Stupid” and PZ Myers doesn’t hesitate.
Also, John Holbo on Hindrocket as Jonah Jameson via Fables of the Reconstruction.

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Don’t Grow Up to Be a Superheroine

This entry was posted in Comics on January 19, 2005 by Steve

Here are a few reasons why.
Via Jim Henley.
Update: Fixed typo.

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