Comments on: Ex Machina #18: A Medical Review

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:20:44 +0000

It’s fairly easy to color gases — think of the red, white, & blue “exhaust” of the Thunderbirds, or those round smoke bombs you could buy as a kid that gave off colored smoke.

By: gorjus

gorjus — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:43:03 +0000

I can No-Prize that one: it was added by the terrorist in some “aftermarket” way in order to hype the scare more. In other words, it’s scary to get gassed by something colorless, but the evil green color might be more terrible. Um.

Is there a way to color gases?

By: Haole

Haole — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 03:56:36 +0000

One thing that I caught when I read this post is that the gas is depicted as being green (or a the least, visible). From what I remember of sarin (from Murakami’s excellent Underground) and from what I know of ricin (from the, uh, Internet’s awesome Google) both are colorless, and (I think) therefore invisible. I don’t think there’s any explanation of why the ricin (it’s essentially confirmed by issue #19 that ricin is the chemical in question) that gasses the protestors has color.

By: gorjus

gorjus — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:09:27 +0000

I’m semi-disappointed at Tony Harris for a few of these gaffes (but not too much–they seem pretty hardcore for the layperson, like me). Mainly because he’s so reliant on photo-referencing.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:13:22 +0000

I find it reassuring that there are people even slower than me at reading comics.

By: DrObvious

DrObvious — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:59:55 +0000

You always review comics a day or two before I get around to reading them….