8.29.2012

Comic Splat - Week 35

New Avengers #30
Luke Cage has had enough?
Heading home to Jessica
Frost under arrest

Winter Soldier #9
Double switches galore
Natasha good or evil?
Look out for beat down!

8.27.2012

You Go Bill Nye!

Any scientist who can make science fun is a rare breed.  Any scientist who also speaks out for the sciences is even more rare.  Recently Nye had this to say about parents wishing there children be removed from the discussion of evolution, "And I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make your kids do it because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need people that can - we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems. "It's just really a hard thing, it's really a hard thing. You know, in another couple of centuries that world view, I'm sure, will be, it just won't exist. There's no evidence for it."
 
So true...

8.22.2012

Comic Splat - Week 34

The Invincible Iron Man #523
A confusing plot
What does Stark have up his sleeve
Whose games his he in?

Amazing Spider-Man #692
Spidey gets partner?
Sidekick, ward, a boy spidey?
Shoes on other foot...

8.15.2012

Comic Splat - Week 33


Amazing Spider-Man #691
Everyone's lizard!
And spider jammers stolen
Future storyline

Avengers #29
Xavier switch sides
Avengers needed telepath
But his dream is dead

A vs X #10
Just Scott and Emma
Now Scott versus a Dragon
And now a Watcher!



8.14.2012

Jill Jonnes - Conquoring Gotham

Having enjoyed Jill Jonnes book on the Eiffel Tower I thought I would give this book a chance.  Nice little history on mass transit in NY City as well as an engineering record of digging under the Hudson to get there.  Amazed that over time NYers gave up on the great train station (seen to the left) and leveled it to build Madison Square Garden...go figure.  The grandeur that Pennsylvania Railroad saw in the people movers of the time is fantastic. 
 
What was more amazing was the feat of builidng the rail lines under the river to get to the Station.  We do amazing things now but it always seems that which was done in the past in light of the technology of today makes what they did seem more incredible.  This was a good read, she is a good writer of history and technology.

8.08.2012

Comic Splat - Week 32

Captain America #16
Manipulation
They are against the Captain
Who's controlling it...

New Avengers #29
Illuminati
The changing alliances
Namor vs Captain

8.04.2012

8.01.2012

Comic Splat - Week 31

A vs X #9
This doesn't look good
Spidey versus Colussus
Who needs a nose job?

Invincible Iron Man #521
Mandarin commands
Hope Tony has a real plan
A smack down awaits...