Why No Cubical Planets, Superman? Me Am Sad Bizarro-World is Here!
Good-bye. This is not an article about Bizarro and Bizarro-World, and not about Bizzaro’s best friend, Superman. Okay - one of those things is true. Or un-true. Or...something. Yeah, let’s not talk in Bizarro-ese anymore. As Superman himself says, “Bizarros aren’t...
Getting Elemental With Batman: Chemistry and Dark Knights: Metal
Nth Metal. Promethium. Dionesium. Electrum. Batman-ium. These are the five metals - the “five impossibly heavy metals” or, if you prefer, the five divine metals of the DC Universe. They’re also the five metals that Batman was treated with in Dark Knights: Metal that...
Satellites Falling: Justice League’s Watchtower and Tiangong-1
The Justice League satellite is falling. And so is one in the real world. One is a dramatic device being used to explore ethics in a fictional world, and the other is something that will probably be entering our atmosphere in a week or so. Why do things in space come...
A Wrinkle in Time, A Schminkle in Time – What in the World is a Tesseract?
Okay, there will be a couple of mild spoilers for Disney’s upcoming version of A Wrinkle in Time in here, but tesseracts are cool. But let’s be clear on what we’re talking about. A Wrinkle in Time’s tesseract - the place where many pop culture fans most likely first...
On the Care and Feeding of a Young Shuri: Raise Your Own at Home!
Let’s say you went to see Black Panther, or people that you know did. Among the people you took, or those that you know who saw it were young girls, say, of the 8 to 16 crowd (or younger or older, we’re not choosy). Let’s say that when Shuri came on the screen their...
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