My Reviews: Week of August 7

Captain America: Reborn #2 (of 5)




















Ghost Riders: Heaven's On Fire #1 (of 6)




















Ignition City #4 (of 5)




















No Hero #6 (of 7)




















Detective Comics #855

Mondo Marvel #8 is Live!

Guess what time it is! Yeah, yeah. I forgot to update the site, but that doesn't mean it's not time for Mondo Marvel #8 - January 1963!

My Reviews: Week of July 31

Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #5 (of 5)




















Secret Warriors #6







































Marvel Zombies 4 #4 (of 4)

My Reviews: Week of July 24

Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #5




















Incredible Hercules #131




















Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #1

My Reviews: Week of July 17

I've been lax, so here's everything for the past couple of weeks.

Detective Comics #854




















Batman and Robin #2




















Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1

Mondo Marvel #7 is Live!

Yes, I know. But it's that time again, so bear with me.

It's time for Mondo Marvel #7 - December 1962!


It's all about Love, Money, and Revolution this week!

Mondo Marvel #6 is Live!

Hey everybody!

It's that time again!

Mondo Marvel #6 - November 1962 is up and running!


Go check it out and see why The Astonishing Ant-Man is really just a crap superhero!

My Reviews: Week of June 26

Secret Warriors #5




















Immortal Iron Fist #27




















Astonishing X-Men #30

My Review: Week of June 19

Marvel Zombies 4 #3

Mondo Marvel #5 is Live!

Well, it's been 2 weeks, so you know what that means!

You don't? Um. Er...

It's time for Mondo Marvel #5 you silly goose!

This week the Fantastic Four visit an alien world and Reed maybe sorta commits genocide, Ant-Man fights a Communist cross-dresser, The Human Torch gets his own series (apparently because there are just so many Commies to fight), and Thor gets a huge expansion in his cast of characters.

Enjoy!

My Reviews: Week of June 12

Batman and Robin #1




















Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter #1




















Doctor Who: Autopia One-Shot




















Anna Mercury 2 #1

Mondo Marvel #4 is Live!

Hey gang! Guess what?

That's right!

Mondo Marvel #4 is up for your reading pleasure over at Comics Bulletin.


This week, we get the very first Marvel Super-Villain Team-Up (and it goes about how one might expect), plus the first real appearance of Dr. Henry Pym, The Ant-Man. Also, Hulk gets a personality make-over and Thor fights Commies!

Go 1962!

My Review: Week of June 5

Ignition City #3

My Reviews: Week of May 29

Ghost Rider #35




















Immortal Iron Fist #26




















Wolverine #72




















Incredible Hercules #129

My Review: Week of May 22

Wolverine: Weapon X #2

Worth Reading 2

The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body - health - 13 May 2009 - New Scientist

The idea that believing you are ill can make you ill may seem far-fetched, yet rigorous trials have established beyond doubt that the converse is true - that the power of suggestion can improve health. This is the well-known placebo effect. Placebos cannot produce miracles, but they do produce measurable physical effects.

The placebo effect has an evil twin: the nocebo effect, in which dummy pills and negative expectations can produce harmful effects. The term "nocebo", which means "I will harm", was not coined until the 1960s, and the phenomenon has been far less studied than the placebo effect. It's not easy, after all, to get ethical approval for studies designed to make people feel worse.

Worth Reading 1

Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World: Scientific American

The problem is that we did not evolve a baloney-detection device in our brains to discriminate between true and false patterns. So we make two types of errors: a type I error, or false positive, is believing a pattern is real when it is not; a type II error, or false negative, is not believing a pattern is real when it is. If you believe that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is just the wind (a type I error), you are more likely to survive than if you believe that the rustle in the grass is just the wind when it is a dangerous predator (a type II error). Because the cost of making a type I error is less than the cost of making a type II error and because there is no time for careful deliberation between patternicities in the split-second world of predator-prey interactions, natural selection would have favored those animals most likely to assume that all patterns are real.

But we do something other animals do not do. As large-brained hominids with a developed cortex and a theory of mind—the capacity to be aware of such mental states as desires and intentions in both ourselves and others—we infer agency behind the patterns we observe in a practice I call “agent­icity”: the tendency to believe that the world is controlled by invisible intentional agents. We believe that these intentional agents control the world, sometimes invisibly from the top down (as opposed to bottom-up causal randomness). Together patternicity and agent­icity form the cognitive basis of shamanism, paganism, animism, polytheism, monotheism, and all modes of Old and New Age spiritualisms.

Comic Cat

Mondo Marvel #3 is Live!

Has it been two weeks already? Yes.

Did I wait until the last minute again? Yes.

Do I suck? Yes.

Mondo Marvel #3: July-August 1962

This installment brings us looks at Fantastic Four #5, The Incredible Hulk #2, Journey Into Mystery #83 (featuring the first appearance of Thor, God of Thunder), and Amazing Fantasy #15 (featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man).

Enjoy!

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Bakersfield dad accused of biting out son's eye - Bakersfield.com

"My daddy ate my eyes."

A search warrant report said the father "was displaying symptoms of being under the influence of PCP."

Alas, SCC, We Hardly Knew Ye...

Looks like the critical combination of shitty timeslot, low ratings, and Fox not getting a big enough share of the profits has led to the demise of one of the best Science Fiction shows on television, just as it was hitting its stride.

Seriously, the last month and a half of Season Two were as good as, if not, at times, a little better than Battlestar Galactica on its better days.

But Fox renews Dollhouse? Really, Fox? You're gonna play it like that?

Shameful.

My Reviews: Week of May 15

Secret Warriors #4




















Dark Reign: Young Avengers #1

Holy Crap! I Just Had a Dream Like This Last Night...

Toilet snake attack: urban legend comes true? - Yahoo!7 News

The director, who declined to be named, said. "A snake's mouth isn't always clean."

Especially that snake's mouth.

Gah! News I Didn't Need to Hear...

Man, 30, gives 'birth' to his twin | The Sun |News

Former firefighter Gavin, of Witney, Oxfordshire, said: “Four hospital doctors had previously examined me and were all puzzled by the lump.

“Some thought it was a cyst, others an in-grown hair.

“Then one said it could be my undeveloped identical twin that I absorbed at a very early stage. I feel absolutely fine now but it has not sunk in yet that I could have had a twin brother. I have him in a jar at home and I call him little Gav. I haven’t told many people. I feel like a bit of a freak.”

or at least the place where we decide to act...

Possible site of free will found in brain - life - 07 May 2009 - New Scientist

It's actually about the consciousness of movement - where the impulse to move apparently originates in the parietal cortex, signals to the premotor cortex which then initiates the movement and signals back to the parietal cortex that a movement was made.

Not exactly "Free Will," but then whether or not Free Will even exists is a question that hasn't been answered to everyone's satisfaction.

But interesting, nonetheless.

My Reviews: Week of May 8

Legion of 3 Worlds #4 (of 5)




















Agents of Atlas #4




















Marvel Zombies 4 #2

Mondo Marvel #2 is live!

Mondo Marvel #2: January-May 1962 is up and running. This week I cover Fantastic Four 2-4 and The Incredible Hulk #1.


The column is a little long, so pop some popcorn, pour yourself a tall one, settle in and enjoy!

Samurai Princess

Directed by the writer of Tokyo Gore Police. Produced and with gore effects by the director of Tokyo Gore Police.

Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl

From the director of Tokyo Gore Police.

As if that needed saying.

My Review: Week of May 1

Detective Comics #853

My Reviews: Week of April 24

Ghost Rider #34




















Immortal Iron Fist #25

My Reviews: Week of April 17

Ignition City #1

Captain America #49

Andrew Sullivan For The Win (or Suck It, Douchebags)

Reagan On Torture Prosecutions

The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the Convention . It marks a significant step in the development during this century of international measures against torture and other inhuman treatment or punishment. Ratification of the Convention by the United States will clearly express United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent practice unfortunately still prevalent in the world today.

The core provisions of the Convention establish a regime for international cooperation in the criminal prosecution of torturers relying on so-called 'universal jurisdiction.' Each State Party is required either to prosecute torturers who are found in its territory or to extradite them to other countries for prosecution.

Mondo Marvel #1 is Live!

Hey True Believers!

My very first Mondo Marvel column went live today over at Comics Bulletin, wherein I take a fresh look (as fresh as possible) at the birth of the Marvel Universe in November 1961's Fantastic Four #1.

Then look for new installments every other week as I make my way through every superhero comic that Marvel published from there to the end of December 1969! It'll be a long haul, but with your support, we can do it!

Come take a look and then check out the message boards to tell me what you think!

Thanks for your time!

Paul Brian McCoy

Too Sad...

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Cult author JG Ballard dies at 78

"If you look at the start of his career, he began writing science fiction stories and we was regarded as very avant garde.

"And there was a kind of violence lurking beneath the texture of these novels. And they've come to seem less and less futuristic and you know it's as if we're embodying, we're living in now a kind of Ballardian world."

Go here to read the short piece: "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan"

All Trekked Up 3...The End

All Trekked Up 2...

All Trekked Up...

My Review: Week of April 10

Wolverine: Weapon X #1

Fight Me, Cowards!

It's kind of silly and the only control you have is over who you choose to fight, but damn if I'm not getting addicted to My Brute. At least it only parcels out 3 fights a day. Otherwise, I'd be doing this all night.

I know. It's sad, really.

If any of you cowards want to fight my Brute, and want to continue on fighting and building your character's experience, weapons, and allies, be sure to create a password, otherwise it's apparently kind of easy to lose track of your Brute.

Like you haven't heard that enough.

Oh my.

Oregon Passes Bill "Too Gross to Talk About" - Boing Boing

My Reviews: Week of April 3

Secret Warriors #3

Agents of Atlas #3

Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #2