Harley Quinn’s King Shark – Yes, Sharks Have Ears
The Harley Quinn animated series on the DC Universe app is one of the streamer’s bright spots. It’s foul-mouthed, hyper-violent lead character is pretty much everything you’d want her to be, and her band of fellow villains are, well, equal parts messed up and weird...
Chernobyl and Marvel’s Dracula: The Science of Containing a Disaster
Meanwhile, as if things weren’t bad enough, over in Marvel’s Avengers, vampires have taken over Chernobyl. Okay - more specifically, they appear to have taken over the New Safe Confinement structure which safeguards the remains of Reactor 4, which exploded in 1986. ...
The Science and the Creepy Look of the Plague Doctor
Plague Doctors, huh? Want a weird coincidence? Here we are in April of 2020, and - had the comic book industry continued running as usual, DC Comics would’ve released Hawkman #23 earlier this month, on April 8th. That’s a detail from the cover up there. The issue,...
Masked Heroes: Why Are We Wearing Masks Now?
So here we are. Masked in public. Or, it’s recommended that we should be wearing masks. On April 3rd, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made the recommendation that everyone should wear masks in public spaces when they need to be around...
States of Matter and the New Mutants
So - New Mutants #7. Still out there on comic shop shelves, or digitally at Comixology.com. It’s one of the returns of a beloved series (and cast), spinning out of Jonathan Hickman’s revitalization of Marvel’s X books. The team pretty much exists in two settings now...