Batman’s New Element: Batmanium?
It’s not every day that the periodic table of the elements is featured in a comic book, let alone a Batman comic. This time, the once-in-a-rare while event happen in Batman #45. In the storyline, the now Mohawk-wearing (former Commissioner) Jim Gordon is now Batman,...
The Flash’s Cell – What is Carbyne?
On this week’s episode of CW’s The Flash, “Escape from Earth-2,” the Flash (Earth-1’s Barry Allen) was Zoom’s prisoner, held inside a cell with transparent walls that he couldn’t escape. By the way, the episode is still available to watch at The CW’s website. Zoom...
It Has Science: Chemistry with the Hulk!
The Hulk has always had my attention, especially in recent years when the science has been played up and inserted into plot elements. Bruce Banner is a physicist, after all – and in comics, “physicist” often means, “knows everything about all kinds of science.” I’m a...
The Flash’s Weaponized Phosphorous
In last week’s episode of The Flash (you can still catch it on The CW's website here), the story reached to a point where the Flash (Barry Allen) had to rescue Professor Martin Stein from General Wade Eiling and reunite him with Ronnie Raymond (so the two...
It Haz Science! Waid & Samnee’s Daredevil #1
I was catching up with some comics recently and finally got a chance to read Mark Waid and Chris Samnee’s Daredevil #1 (Marvel Comics). There’s a lot that can be talked about with Daredevil on a science website, and Waid - a physics minor in college, if I’m not...
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