Incredible Hulk #171

  • Sep. 13th, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Writers: Steve Englehart and Gerry Conway

Pencils: Herb Trimpe

Inks: Jack Abel


The Hulk and Betty return to Hulkbuster Base, only to be immediately set upon by the Abomination and the Rhino.


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Hawkworld #13

  • Sep. 13th, 2025 at 12:40 PM

Writer: John Ostrander

Pencils and inks: Tom Mandrake


Katar's promotional tour for the Thanagarian Museum takes him to New York, where he encounters the heroine Firehawk.


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Hawk and Dove (1989) #8

  • Sep. 13th, 2025 at 9:29 AM

Writers: Karl and Barbara Kesel

Pencils: Greg Guler

Inks: Scott Hanna


Hawk and Dove fight an old-timey rampaging robot.


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Sep. 12th, 2025

  • 1:35 PM
white_aster: (bullshit sinfest)
At NIH, Political Appointees Get More Say in Grant Decisions
In a shift from longstanding precedent, political priorities may now override peer review in research funding decisions.

:head in hands:  This is the exact opposite of the way that current peer review works.  Yes, science agencies have always had priorities and shifted funding toward initiatives that might be priorities of the current administration, but not at this nitty gritty grant level.  Before, you might fund, say, the BRAIN initiative because it's something the president backs.  But you would then let the peer review process (ie, actual brain experts) figure out who should get the funding.  Now?  Now a political appointee could decide they don't like a project for apparently literally any reason, and even though it's actual, non-sarcastic "gold-standard science", it could be passed over.  

This opens up all kinds of corruption influences.  Who is going to be watching the watchers?  What criteria are appointees allowed to use to thumbs-down these grants...or can they do it for any reason at all?  Are they just looking for a keyword?  Are they looking at the PI's internet history?  The Institution, to see who the administration is fighting with now?  Are they relying on their unscientific opinion of what "sounds important"?  Are they open to bumping up funding for PIs or institutions that are friendly to them or their higher-ups. regardless of the science involved?

And the anecdotes at the end from how all this is affecting the peer review process--how scientists are starting to nope out of this onerous and increasingly apparently thankless task--are the predictable signs of a scientific funding process in absolute crisis.  Scientific review runs on volunteers, and people stop wanting to volunteer if they feel they're just going to be ignored, jerked around, and wronged.


Guy Gardner: Warrior #31

  • Sep. 12th, 2025 at 5:53 PM

Writer: Beau Smith

Pencils: Mitch Byrd

Inks: Dan Davis


Dementor is back and he is making the guest stars relive their worst nightmares.


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Green Lantern #198

  • Sep. 12th, 2025 at 2:30 PM

Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Joe Staton

Inks: Bruce Patterson


Guy leads a team of no-name villains in to the Anti-Matter Universe and, to absolutely nobody’s surprise, it goes horribly wrong.


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If you've ever wondered how early versions of the Justice League would've coped with a zombie outbreak, the answer is "Not well at all."

DCEASED? More like DCMATED. )

Fantastic Four #396

  • Sep. 12th, 2025 at 12:31 PM

Writer: Tom DeFalco

Pencils: Paul Ryan

Inks: Danny Bulanadi


Sue has had it with her father-in-law's cryptic vagaries. (Join the club!)


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Extreme Justice #3

  • Sep. 12th, 2025 at 10:29 AM

Writer: Dan Vado

Pencils: Marc Campos

Inks: Ken Branch


Captain Atom confronts the man responsible for all the trouble the Justice League has been put through.


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Doom Patrol (1987) #7

  • Sep. 11th, 2025 at 7:23 PM

Writer: Paul Kupperberg

Pencils: Erik Larsen

Inks: Gary Martin


The Doom Patrol rookies have a night on the town.


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