Beatrice the Biologist

Beatrice the Biologist: Superheroes

I love these ideas more than is probably healthy. I find myself being inspired by these superheroes/supervillains(?) and might have to do some research.

You’re a superhero come to arrest some baddies, but oh no! It’s Sea Cucumber Woman, gross! While she makes off with her bag of stolen goodies, she casually reaches in through her mouth and pulls out something pulsing and squishy purple. You try to dodge out of the way, but … Ugh.

Amoeba Woman absorbs you into her amorphous body and begins to squeeze. You struggle and attempt to break away, but once she’s got you in her grasp, the only escape is the GRAVE!

Fungus Woman may look like she’s got a serious skin condition, but once you get close enough to catch a whiff of her alluring spores, it’s already too late. Lulled into a state of dreamy reticence, you don’t even notice the almost silvery webbing forming over your skin, strands of frothy white forming as you are consumed alive.

Link: http://www.beatricebiologist.com/

Heroes & Villains at Amazon

Beatrice the Biologist, in her awesomeness, has decided to share some links to science-based comics. I’ve already found some comics that I really like and that I’ve subscribed to, because at my core I am a follower of all things awesome.

I led a session at a conference called Science Online about comics, and I featured a bunch of different science and science-ish comics from around the interwebs. I promised those in the session I’d make a list of them, but rather that put it on the conference forum, I figured this should be shared with everyone. So here is a rather mighty (although by no means definitive) list of science comics. If you know of anyone who isn’t on here, feel free to tweet me and I’ll add them. And there are some here that are not always science-y, but do sometimes touch on science, health, or nature topics.

– Beatrice the Biologist

Go check out the link to her blog here: http://www.beatricebiologist.com/2014/03/science-comics.html

Kola Borehole
XKCD – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Who doesn’t love stick people? And if you don’t, then I probably don’t want to know you 😛

Small Gods at Amazon