Comments on: Comic Book Diagnoses: Brains! Brains!

By: Jacob T. Levy

Jacob T. Levy — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:59:48 +0000

President Rexall in Miller’s _Give Me Liberty_ (geez, do ya remember *that* Frank Miller? Whatever happened to him?) also ended up as a brain-in-a-jar. Not to be confused with Raggy Ann, who kind of looked like a brain-on-legs. (I always wondered whether Morrison’s X-Martha was a nod to the brain characters in Miller’s Martha Washington books.)

By: Sean Duggan

Sean Duggan — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:44:14 +0000

That would be Krang, jokergirl. He only existed for the 1987 cartoon and the comic books and games based off of the cartoon. Although he was based off of the Ultroms of the original comic strip, later seen in the new animated series and related merchandise.

By: jokergirl

jokergirl — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:20:41 +0000

What about that brain-thingy from another dimension from TMNT? Forgot the name, shame on me.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:00:55 +0000

Any intention of handling the Kingpin soon? That whole “His stomach is made of muscles” thing never struck me as believable.

By: M

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 05:03:33 +0000

I’m pretty sure there’s no connection between Malice and Sue as Malice.

Is this Thinker, the Mad Thinker or a different character? Cool graphic.

On the theme:

What was with that choker that manifested on anyone Malice possessed? On the one hand she’s a mutant who exists as an acorporeal psychic entity and on the other she’s a necklace with a cameo? Time to review the guidelines on the differences between ’science’ based characters and abilities versus ‘occult’.

And remember the Shadow King is/was whatever (hate him too) a telepath who managed to live on as a psychic entity on the astral plane, following the death of his physical body as a result of a psi duel with young Charles Xavier. So his state was neither a natural development as for example Malice’s presumably was nor intentional like a digitized persona.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:54:37 +0000

Brainiac, Brainiac, Brainiac.

Has, at one time or another, been ALL of these things. Pre-Crisis, a scientist (with a monkey!) that moved into a robot body (type 2), Post-Crisis, an A.I. (type 4) who hopped into organic bodies, including Milton Fine, Superman, and Doomsday (type 3). And Morrison’s Earth-2 version was thing in a jar (type 1).

Currently, um, I don’t know WHAT he is. Organic, it looks

By: methane

methane — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:07:21 +0000

How would you classify Jericho (of the Titans)? He has a body, but it disappears whenever he uses his powers.

By: David Welsh

David Welsh — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:26:21 +0000

Speaking of brains, Scott, there’s a new manga title called “Monster” from Viz about a neurosurgeon, with lots of medical jargon and hospital scenes. It’s begging for a Medical Review. Begging, I say!

By: TayJK

TayJK — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:42:36 +0000

Don’t forget Lex Luthor’s brain (and eyes) swamp into a new, non-dying clone body. That cover where they revealed it was cool. It was made up like a 50’s B-movie poster, with the title “They Saved Luthor’s Brain!”
The issue was Action Comics #678, BTW.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:47:16 +0000

M,
For some reason, I always thought the two Malice’s were connected. Though I will admit I have only superficial recollections of that particular FF storyline. I remember disliking the Polaris-as-Malice storyline because she and Alex were two of my favorite characters and it seemed unfair. Other than Peter David’s brief run on X-Factor, they haven’t caught a break since.

Anyway, I changed the image to reflect the Malice I was talking about, this one the big reveal from Uncanny X-Men #221-ish.