Polite Dissenta blog of medicine, comics, television, science and other fun stuffMonday PSA: Wake Up America!- June 24, 2008 From USA Comics 7, February 1943. (And for those of you who aren&8217;t sure what War Stamps were, they were basically mini-War Bonds with a price of 25&162; marketed at children. Fill a special album with 75 of them, and you could turn it in for a $25 War Bond that would mature ...http://politedissent.com/archives/2018 Streets of Poison: Captain Americas Exchange Transfusion- June 23, 2008 In the early 1990, Captain America writer Mark Gruenwald announced that wanted to examine the world of drug addiction through the eyes of Captain America, a super-hero who required a drug to gain his powers. This became the Streets of Poison storyline and ran in issues 372-378 of the title. In the first issue of ...http://politedissent.com/archives/2017 Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Sorcerous Nosebleed Zen: Rex Mundi- June 21, 2008 scene from Rex Mundi 14 (by Arvid Nelson and Juan Ferreyra) Rex Mundi is set in 1934, but in a world that has seen a history subtly different from our own. Part of the fun of the series for me has been trying to discover exactly where and how the timelines diverge (not to mention ...http://politedissent.com/archives/2016 Compare and Contrast- June 21, 2008 Freeze Pills vs. Anti-Freeze Pills scenes from Adventure Comics 303 and Avengers 14http://politedissent.com/archives/2015 Do You Really Want to Be a Doctor- June 20, 2008 Yet another threat we family doctors routinely face: rabid dogs. Cover to Nurse Cynthia Doyle in Love 71 (Charlton, 1962). Tags: comics medicine rabies nurse doghttp://politedissent.com/archives/2014 Sometimes, the Science Makes My Head Hurt- June 19, 2008 Scene from Ultimate Origins 1. Script by Brian Michael Bendis, art by Butch Guice The scientist in this scene &8212; and Bendis, by extension &8212; have just enough knowledge of biology to get almost everything painfully wrong. Let me just hit the highlights &8212; feel free to chime in with your own thoughts (the ...http://politedissent.com/archives/2013 Technobabble Theater: More Than You Wanted to Know About Mother of Champions- June 18, 2008 In Nightwing, the Mother of Champions (a Chinese super-hero who gives birth to &8220;litters&8221; of super-powered children every few days) has been kidnapped by Talia Al Ghul so that she can raise her own super-powered army. To make the process even more efficient, one of Talia&8217;s (mad) scientists explains the the plan. Warning: When ...http://politedissent.com/archives/2011 Monday PSA: The Magic Card- June 17, 2008 Although this public service ad was originally written in 1959, we can already see the formation of several of the various modern geek cliques: the modders, the cosplayers, and the copyright infringers. Little did Jack Schiff know how prescient he was being when he scripted this simple PSA about all the good stuff ...http://politedissent.com/archives/2012 Nightwng 145: A Medical Review- June 16, 2008 Nightwing 145 &8220;Freefall&8221; Peter J. Tomasi, writer Rags Morales, penciler At the end of the Resurrection of Ra&8217;s Al Ghul storyline, Al Ghul had been defeated by Batman and locked in Arkham Asylum. Batman had the asylum staff convinced that Al Ghul was a dangerously psychotic schizophrenic who required constant heavy sedation with multiple drugs. This ...http://politedissent.com/archives/2010 Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: The Venture Bros.- June 14, 2008 In the recent Venture Bros. episode &8220;The Doctor is Sin,&8221; necromancer Dr. Orpheus is trying to read the mind of the mysterious Dr. Killinger. Not only did Dr. Orpheus&8217;s attempt fail, but he ended up with quite a substantial nosebleed of the psychic variety as well. You can watch the episode in its entirety ...http://politedissent.com/archives/2009 |