Avengers #25 preview

[sherkahn]

One page from #25, courtesy of ComicBookResources.com






That's Captain America trying to punch Magneto??!
WTF?

And the art... this is THE Walt Simonson?

Comments

[liara_shadowsong]

No need to be sorry! I'm a lot of a science geek too, I just gave up a while back on trying to make comic book and real life science match up properly. At this point, I'm just assuming that the Marvel universe uses even more magnetic metal alloys than the real world does, to explain how extensively Magneto's powers work. I would love to do more experiments with magnetism, but it's just not really an option right now (and I'm afraid my knowledge of alloys isn't really all that fantastic, I have much more experience with things that are more biologically applicable - which, luckily, is serving me quite well in my current studies).

Once in a while, I just have to give up on a comic book or movie or tv show, because the science is so bad that I can't even maintain suspension of disbelief any more. Honestly, that's probably one of the reasons that I tend to gravitate towards fictional worlds with magic in them, because at least then there's a reason for the laws of physics to apparently have loopholes. (I love when writers do their scientific research!)

Yeah... as interesting as semiconductors and superconductors are, graded work regarding them can't really be described in any way besides nervewracking. Same goes for optics, imho, the stuff my club got to demo at a local junior high was really cool (I got to demonstrate chirality with a giant graduated cylinder full of corn syrup, a light source with a polarizer, and a screen to show the pretty rainbows that resulted), and lenses are just plain fascinating, but the calculations I had to do for the later exams nearly drove me to tears despite my relatively strong calculus background.