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.