Comic Book Wednesday: Zen Science!
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jack_babalonAny fool can be a mad scientist... but it takes a unique breed of insanity in order to master the impossible art of Zen Science!
The difference between the two is that a mad scientist tears a great big hole out of Mother Earth; all in order to discover a savage subterranean civilization hidden below... and then promptly declares war on them out of boredom. Content to rapple down a freshly dug geothermal tunnel, with a rain of flash grenades igniting his descent and a chattering machine gun clenched silencing the anguished cry of the once peaceful C.H.U.D. tribe below, the Mad Scientist thinks he's got it all worked out. Then, next thing you know, the East Coast is swallowed up by the massive yawn of a awoken Gorroko... the Beast that Ate Cities and Shat out Radioactive Mountains.
Yeah, good job there, Mister Mad Scientist... nice looking out!
A disciple of Zen Science however discovers such a species only by mistake, perhaps while doing a little location scouting for a proposed underground aquarium for her race of bioengineered Mole-Monkeys. It isn't long before she is captured by the C.H.U.D.'s, offered as a sacrifice to their blind god Gorroko, escapes effortlessly, subdues the ravenous beast with a nano-delivered opiate and subsequently becomes honorary Queen C.H.U.D. Peace ensues between surface dweller and 'Beneath Walker'.
Meanwhile, the Mole-Monkeys continue to proliferate both in number and patience, growing stronger... smarter... meaner.
Fuggin' Mole-Monkeys!
But anyway, I digress. Here then are some of my favorite examples of Zen Science in action - direct from the source - classic Silver Age Comics.
"Absolutely Impossible." Not for the art of Zen Science, Scarlet Speedster! Now enjoy your trip across the cosmos as a beam of pure information... all thanks to a well-placed radioactive Freudian Slip!
Behold the wonders of the Möbius Loop, Last Son of Krypton! But are even your mighty powers enough to wrestle free from the clutches of the Anti-Infinite... or will you fall into a state of transchronological gnosis before being reduced to a two dimensional comic book character in a parallel universe?
"Why... why was I built to cry during Barbara Streisand?" Zen Science, that's why Vision!
The difference between the two is that a mad scientist tears a great big hole out of Mother Earth; all in order to discover a savage subterranean civilization hidden below... and then promptly declares war on them out of boredom. Content to rapple down a freshly dug geothermal tunnel, with a rain of flash grenades igniting his descent and a chattering machine gun clenched silencing the anguished cry of the once peaceful C.H.U.D. tribe below, the Mad Scientist thinks he's got it all worked out. Then, next thing you know, the East Coast is swallowed up by the massive yawn of a awoken Gorroko... the Beast that Ate Cities and Shat out Radioactive Mountains.
Yeah, good job there, Mister Mad Scientist... nice looking out!
A disciple of Zen Science however discovers such a species only by mistake, perhaps while doing a little location scouting for a proposed underground aquarium for her race of bioengineered Mole-Monkeys. It isn't long before she is captured by the C.H.U.D.'s, offered as a sacrifice to their blind god Gorroko, escapes effortlessly, subdues the ravenous beast with a nano-delivered opiate and subsequently becomes honorary Queen C.H.U.D. Peace ensues between surface dweller and 'Beneath Walker'.
Meanwhile, the Mole-Monkeys continue to proliferate both in number and patience, growing stronger... smarter... meaner.
Fuggin' Mole-Monkeys!
But anyway, I digress. Here then are some of my favorite examples of Zen Science in action - direct from the source - classic Silver Age Comics.
"Absolutely Impossible." Not for the art of Zen Science, Scarlet Speedster! Now enjoy your trip across the cosmos as a beam of pure information... all thanks to a well-placed radioactive Freudian Slip!
Behold the wonders of the Möbius Loop, Last Son of Krypton! But are even your mighty powers enough to wrestle free from the clutches of the Anti-Infinite... or will you fall into a state of transchronological gnosis before being reduced to a two dimensional comic book character in a parallel universe?
"Why... why was I built to cry during Barbara Streisand?" Zen Science, that's why Vision!
