Writer: Steve Englehart
Pencils: Tom Derenick
Inks: Mark Farmer
Aquaman continues to be absolutely bloody useless.
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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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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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Writers: Karl and Barbara Kesel
Pencils: Greg Guler
Inks: Scott Hanna
Hawk and Dove fight an old-timey rampaging robot.
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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.
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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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."
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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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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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Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Pencils: Erik Larsen
Inks: Gary Martin
The Doom Patrol rookies have a night on the town.
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Writer: Mark Gruenwald
Pencils: Rik Levins
Inks: Danny Bulanadi
A luxury cruise ship full of female super-villains, you say?
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