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...
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...
Gummy Bears Go Boom? Did Logan Lucky Teach Us How to Make a Bomb?
Watch enough science-based science fiction or “real world” movies/TV with science in them, and you’ll come to a simple conclusion: they’re leaving bits out. No matter how many episodes of Breaking Bad you watch, you’re never going to be able to make meth by imitating...
Hey Spider-Man: About the Top of the Washington Monument…
It stands out in the Washington Monument scenes in Spider-Man: Homecoming. It’s right there in the trailer and the movie – Spider-Man is at the top of the Washington Monument, and you can see it – the top is silvery gray. What? The top of the Washington Monument isn’t...
Wonder Woman’s Real-Life Dr. Poison: Fritz Haber
In Wonder Woman, Dr. Poison has everything going for her as a classic villain. She's broken. She's creepy. She's troubled. She's brilliant. And she knows her science. Apparently in the thrall of General Ludendorff, Dr. Poison – Isabel Maru, played by Elena...
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