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All Out War, Part 12. In the stunning conclusion to All Out War, Rick makes a final move against Negan while paying a high price. |
get it now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-walking-dead-126/id878346467?mt=11&uo=2&partnerId=11&at=1010ldoE
Sunday, April 2, 2017
The Walking Dead #126 - Robert Kirkman
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The Ghost in the Shell Volume 2 - Shirow Masamune
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March 6, 2035. Motoko Aramaki is a hyper-advanced cyborg, a counter-terrorist Net security expert, heading the investigative department of the giant multi-national Poseidon Industrial. Partly transcending the physical world and existing in a virtual world of networks, Motoko is a fusion of multiple entities and identities, deploying remotely controlled prosthetic humanoid surrogates around the globe to investigate a series of bizarre incidents. |
get it now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-ghost-in-the-shell-volume-2/id1186167833?mt=11&uo=2&partnerId=11&at=1010ldoE
The Walking Dead: Compendium One - Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard & Tony Moore
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The Walking Dead Compendium is here! Since 2003, Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead has been redefining the survival horror genre with its unique and vivid account of life after the end of the world. Although the cast is diverse and often changing (including, of course, a great number of zombies), at the heart of every tale is Rick Grimes: former police officer, husband, father, and de facto leader of a ragtag band of survivors looking to make a future for themselves in a world that no longer has one. To call The Walking Dead a zombie tale is accurate to a point, but it touches on only one facet of a story that asks timeless questions about what it means to live. It also asks whether or not this is possible in a world full of the dead. This is a great opportunity to experience this gripping read for the first time or catch up on the tale with the first four years worth of material, collected in one volume for the first time. The first eight volumes of this fan-favorite series collected into one massive collection. This volume collects THE WALKING DEAD #1-48. |
get it now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-walking-dead-compendium-one/id878363983?mt=11&uo=2&partnerId=11&at=1010ldoE
The Infinity Gauntlet - Jim Starlin, George Pérez & Ron Lim
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It's the Avengers, the New Warriors, the X-Men and more against the omnipotent Eternal, Thanos! The Mad Titan has become the most powerful being in the universe, and enslavement or destruction may be the only choices he gives it! Collects Infinity Gauntlet (1991) #1-6. |
get it now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-infinity-gauntlet/id504209540?mt=11&uo=2&partnerId=11&at=1010ldoE
ICYMI: This Week’s Science News (4/02/17)
By Jaclyn Cascio (@jaclynator)
This week, it seems like a lot of movie and television realities might just become reality. Life seems to imitate art, and science seems to be imitating fiction. Maybe HR helping the team on The Flash isn’t such a far-fetched idea, after all. If you want to see for yourself, keep reading! ICYMI, here’s some of the science news from the last week!
Tetris Therapy: Coming to an ER near you
Researchers have found that an old beloved video game might actually have a positive impact on emotional health!
In a previous study, Emily Holmes and a team found that playing Tetris had the potential to reduce “intrusive memories” in individuals who watched a traumatic video. In a study published this week, Holmes and the team wanted to see if similar results could be achieved in the “real world.” Individuals at an ER in Oxford who witnessed a car crash (driver, passenger, pedestrian, etc.) were randomly assigned to play Tetris for 10 minutes, or not. The study showed that those who played Tetris within 6 hours of the crash had 62% fewer flashbacks of the event than those who didn’t during the following week.
The team hope to continue similar studies with video games and trauma. But hey, turns out video games can be good for you!
Chalk it up to bad luck.
A controversial 2015 study showed that sometimes cancer is due to bad luck. A recent study by a team at Johns Hopkins University supports the same conclusion, with findings showing that 66% of cancer mutations are simply caused by mistakes made when cells divide and copy their DNA. This is not to say that other factors don’t play a role, such as the effects of smoking and lung cancer. However, this result may help some people understand their tragic situation, without adding guilt to the mix, and may help others understand why it happened to them, even if they lived the healthiest lifestyle imaginable.
Most importantly, the research may help research focus on biological processes affecting the DNA copying mistakes that occur when cells divide and potentially find a way to prevent those mutations.
Brains!
The largest brain cancer study ever has been completed by researchers in Europe and the U.S. The study was designed to study differences in the human genome to determine possible causes of glioma, a type of cancer in the glial cells in the brain. Glioma is a particularly nasty cancer, with approximately 95% of its victims dying within a 5 year window. By looking at differences in the genome in the massive study, scientists hope to find ways to detect this type of cancer earlier, and by determining causes perhaps fine tune treatments as well.
Every little piece of information can help, and scientists only go big. They never go home!
Dieting vampires, the Splenda of blood is coming.
Remember when Ethan Hawke and Sam Neill were in a vampire movie where they had to develop artificial blood because there was a shortage of humans and real blood? Well, once again real life is imitating art, it seems! Researchers at the University of Bristol and NHS Blood and Transplant have developed a technique using stem cells to mass produce red blood cells.
The process is expensive, but if the process proves to be consistently successful, it would be a viable alternative for patients with rare blood types with significantly smaller reserves available for use from the blood banks.
Is anyone concerned that maybe vampires are real and they’re finding semi-vegetarian options for dinner time? No? Just legitimate science? Either way, the process is a step in a good direction for the health care community.
Let’s Benjamin Button these mice!
As we age, the DNA in our cells becomes damaged. Cells die, turn cancerous, or essentially become dormant. While the dormancy was once believed to be harmless, it turns out the cells actually play in role in chemicals and molecules that cause problem with the remaining healthy cells of the body.
After 4 years, researchers in the Netherlands have found a peptide that kills these dormant cells while leaving healthy ones alone. The treatment seemed to restore function of some organs in aging mice, missing fur grew back, and the mice were able to run twice as fast as their non-treated counterparts.
The team hopes to continue the study with mice and move on to human subjects in the future, to see if similar results are achieved. Live longer and healthier and see ALL the Marvel movies in Phase 19.
Spare no expense, find a GIANT dinosaur print!
University of Brisbane paleontologists have found the largest dinosaur print. Ever. Discovered within a region of Australia where 21 different types of dinosaur prints have been found (ranging from predatory to armored dinosaurs and other plant eaters), the new print is almost 6 feet in length (5’9”)!
Australia’s “Jurassic Park” region shows that it’s not just modern day spiders and snakes that are bigger there. It turns out that the dinosaurs were humongous too!
Don’t break orbit, break a record instead.
The U.S. Air Force has a space plane orbiting Earth. The X-37B has spent 680 days orbiting Earth, breaking the record of 674 days set with the OTV-3 (their previous orbital test vehicle). How much longer will it be up there, circling? What’s happening up there? Well, it’s one of those “tell you, kill you” situations. But we at least know records are being broken, so we’re in the outer circle of trust, at least. Right?
Shhhh! The sun is sleeping!
Starting on March 7, NASA observed no sunspots for a 15 day period. This is the longest amount of time without sunspots being observed since April 2010. Don’t worry! It turns out this quiet period is normal and expected, with the sun going through an eleven-year cycle between solar maximum (lots of sun spots) and minimum (fewer spots). This observation illustrates the sun drifting toward the minimum of its cycle.
What does this mean? It means more cosmic rays hitting Earth, but less particles hitting the Earth’s atmosphere, leading to aurorae being a little less impressive and varied in color.
Sheldon Cooper isn’t the only physicist studying humor.
Anyone who has watched The Big Bang Theory knows that Sheldon Cooper struggles with understanding lots of social conventions and cues, and jokes often evade him. He once spent an entire episode trying to discover what makes jokes funny and design the perfect joke, mathematically.
It turns out real researchers tried to study humor by using mathematical generalizations from quantum mechanics. Essentially, they broke down the factors of joke telling, such as who was speaking, the surrounding environment, who was listening, relationships between listener and speaker, etc. to evaluate jokes and the inspiration for humor.
Who said what you learned in physics class in high school couldn’t be applied to real life?
Vulcans bleed green because their hearts are made of spinach!
Spinach leaves can be made into human heart tissue. No, it’s not just a ploy to get you to eat vegetables. It’s the real deal. Vascular structures are not easy to create from scratch. But researchers have found that if plant cells are stripped away from the spinach leaf, leaving the vascular structures, blood and other bodily fluids can be pumped through the structures. This development could help scientists grow heart tissue to repair damaged areas of the blood-pumping organ.
Maybe Popeye was onto something!
Lungs aren’t just balloons for the body.
It’s possibly time to change the textbooks. A team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco have discovered that bone marrow is not the only producer of all our blood components. While previous studies have shown that the lungs produce some of the body’s platelets, the new study seems to show the lungs producing most of the body’s platelets.
It seems like this is something we probably should already know, but the new information is due to a new technology in which a protein producing bioluminescence is inserted into the genome of mice. This caused the platelets in the mice to glow green as they circulated, allowing the researchers to watch the platelets’ paths in real time. This is how they discovered the surprising mass population of platelets in lung tissue.
So bone marrow and the lungs seems to be working together to create platelets for the body’s blood supply. Further study is needed to see if human lungs act the same as those of the mice. Further studies could also determine if treatments of issues like inflammation of the lungs will need to be altered to be more effective.
Matt Goodman
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http://www.nerdhq.com/icymi-this-weeks-science-news-40217/
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise Part 2 - Gene Luen Yang & Various Artists
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Aang and Katara are working tirelessly for peace when an impasse between Fire Lord Zuko and Earth King Kuei over Fire Nation colonies within the borders of the Earth Nation threatens to plunge the world back into war! Meanwhile, Sokka must help Toph prepare her hapless first class of metalbending students to defend their school against a rival class of firebenders! * Written by Eisner winner and National Book Award nominee Gene Luen Yang ( American Born Chinese ). |
get it now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/avatar-the-last-airbender-the-promise-part-2/id885958343?mt=11&uo=2&partnerId=11&at=1010ldoE
Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
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A NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller! Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes. This edition of WATCHMEN, the groundbreaking series from Alan Moore, the award-winning writer of V FOR VENDETTA and BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, and Dave Gibbons, the artist of GREEN LANTERN, features the high-quality, recolored pages found in WATCHMEN: THE ABSOLUTE EDITION with sketches, never-before-seen extra bonus materials and a new introduction by Dave Gibbons. |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise Part 1 - Gene Luen Yang & Various Artists
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The wait is over! Ever since the conclusion of Avatar: The Last Airbender , its millions of fans have been hungry for more—and it's finally here! This series of digests rejoins Aang and friends for exciting new adventures, beginning with a faceoff against the Fire Nation that threatens to throw the world into another war, testing all of Aang's powers and ingenuity! * The continuation of Airbender and the link to its upcoming sequel, Legend of Korra ! * Written by Gene Luen Yang, author of the National Book Award-nominated American Born Chinese . |
get it now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/avatar-the-last-airbender-the-promise-part-1/id885960930?mt=11&uo=2&partnerId=11&at=1010ldoE
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
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In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve. |
get it now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/fun-home/id427516234?mt=11&uo=2&partnerId=11&at=1010ldoE
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search Part 3 - Gene Luen Yang & Various Artists
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Avatar Aang travels to the spirit world to parley with an ancient power; bringing Fire Lord Zuko ever closer to discovering the truth about his mother's fate—and his own past. Yet Zuko's sister Azula is becoming increasingly dangerous; threatening to ruin everything that Zuko; Aang; Katara; and Sokka have struggled to achieve on their search! * The official continuation of Airbender from its creators; Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko! |
get it now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/avatar-the-last-airbender-the-search-part-3/id886264481?mt=11&uo=2&partnerId=11&at=1010ldoE
The Little School Nurse That Could 2 - Remi Aoi
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Despite the physical and mind games being played by the professor overseeing her training, Kana is still bent on becoming a full-fledged teacher—until a surreal experience in an all-boys classroom turns that determination into humiliation… |
get it now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-little-school-nurse-that-could-2/id926637521?mt=11&uo=2&partnerId=11&at=1010ldoE
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search Part 1 - Gene Luen Yang & Various Artists
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For years, fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra have burned with one question—what happened to Fire Lord Zuko's mother? Finding a clue at last, Zuko enlists the aid of Team Avatar—and the most unlikely ally of all—to help uncover the biggest secret of his life. * This is the perfect companion to The Legend of Korra ! * The official continuation of Airbender from its creators! |
get it now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/avatar-the-last-airbender-the-search-part-1/id885957146?mt=11&uo=2&partnerId=11&at=1010ldoE
ROBERT CRUMB (Shows And) Tells All In New IDW Retrospective
From the underground to the Book of Genesis.
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http://www.newsarama.com/33851-r-crumb-comes-to-idw.html
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JIM LEE, BRANDON CHOI, J. SCOTT CAMPBELL, More Return To WILDSTORM For New Stories
Wild Storm, renewed.
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http://www.newsarama.com/33850-jim-lee-brandon-choi-j-scott-campbell-more-return-to-wildstorm-for-new-stories.html
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DARK NIGHTS: METAL
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, along with DC Publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio, just announced that their highly anticipated event, DARK NIGHTS: METAL, will rock comics this summer.
Official Press Release
via DC Comics
http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2017/04/02/dark-nights-metal
Shelly BOND's BLACK CROWN Knights Its First Title
With an old Vertigo friend and a new talent on the rise.
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http://www.newsarama.com/33849-shelly-bond-s-black-crown-knights-its-first-title.html
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GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ To Write & Draw His Own Creator-Owned Fantasy Epic
From LOCKE & KEY to SWORD OF AGES.
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http://www.newsarama.com/33848-gabriel-rodriguez-to-write-draw-his-own-creator-owned-fantasy-epic.html
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STAR TREK's GEORGE TAKEI To Tell Story Of His WW2 Japanese-American Internment Camp Experiences at IDW
From outer space to hard truths.
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TMNT and USAGI YOJIMBO Reunite In New STAN SAKAI Crossover Title
After a 20+ year drought.
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http://www.newsarama.com/33846-tmnt-and-usagi-yojimbo-reunite-in-new-stan-sakai-crossover-title.html
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SNYDER, CAPULLO, LEE, DIDIO On DARK NIGHTS: METAL - Live!
DC hosts a livestream of their announcement panel.
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http://www.newsarama.com/33845-sndyer-capullo-lee-didio-on-dark-nights-metal-live.html
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DC's Big Summer 2017 Event Revealed: DARK NIGHTS - METAL
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo reunite for a story planned since the "New 52's" beginning that builds on the foundation of "Rebirth."
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http://www.newsarama.com/33844-dc-s-big-summer-2017-event-revealed-dark-nights-metal.html
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Death Note, Vol. 1 - Tsugumi Ohba
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Light tests the boundaries of the Death Note's powers as L and the police begin to close in. Luckily Light's father is the head of the Japanese National Police Agency and leaves vital information about the case lying around the house. With access to his father's files, Light can keep one step ahead of the authorities. But who is the strange man following him, and how can Light guard against enemies whose names he doesn't know? |
get it now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/death-note-vol-1/id722614959?mt=11&uo=2&partnerId=11&at=1010ldoE
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search Part 2 - Gene Luen Yang & Various Artists
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In search of their long-lost mother, Fire Lord Zuko and his deadly and insane sister Azula have brought Avatar Aang and his friends into a mysterious forest, but what they discover within may be more than they can face. Will they too be lost in these woods forever? * Perfect companion to Legend of Korra ! * The official continuation of Airbender from its creators. "A fantastic glimpse into the post-series universe... " —Bleeding Cool |
get it now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/avatar-the-last-airbender-the-search-part-2/id886263609?mt=11&uo=2&partnerId=11&at=1010ldoE
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