Comments on: Comic Book Diagnosis: Can’t Get You Out of My Mind

By: Justin K.

Justin K. — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:39:55 +0000

In the mid-80s, Gary Trudeau did the “Inside Reagan’s Brain” and “Return to Reagan’s Brain” storylines in Doonesbury, in which intrepid reporter leads a safari expedition into the wilderness of Reagan’s brain, hunting for lost Iran-Contra memories. Good stuff.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:30:15 +0000

Yes, Brainwave Jr. I knew that Black Adam didn’t sound right. Thanks!

By: Mark Simmons

Mark Simmons — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:34:53 +0000

Actually, I think the Futurama episode was also an example of the “Surgical Precision” pinpoint brain attack. Miniature Fry ended up holding his own brain hostage in an attempt to force the parasitic worms out of his body, although he started running into problems after he sliced off his own “hand-eye coordination lobe.” Not all that scientifically accurate, perhaps, but rather cute. :-)

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Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:22:23 +0000

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By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:15:09 +0000

I was hoping that someone would remember the JLA story with Darkseid and Atom. That was great.

As for JSA, that was Ray Palmer vs Mr Mind inside Brainwave (Jr’s) brain.

By: H

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:49:15 +0000

Thank you for this analysis of the greatness that is the shrinking super-hero. I really need to get that issue of Brave & Bold.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:33:05 +0000

There was another Legion story in which Violet went into Colossal Boy’s neck to remove a device implanted there from a distance by a sharpshooter. Said device, if I recall correctly, caused the Legion cruiser the two of them were in to malfunction, forcing Violet to abandon CB on an asteroid while she headed back to Earth to get help. It’s been a while, so my memory on that one is really spotty. I’m thinking Cockrum did the art chores.

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:49:58 +0000

… although, thinking about it, that was actually a Durlan spy pretending to be Shrinking Violet who defeated the Servant.

By: M

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:35:55 +0000

Surgical Precision – I know a great example of an attack along those lines. There’s an episode of the cartoon Invader Zim, where Zim does the Fatastic Voyage bit to erase Dib’s memory of where he hid a disc of evidence exposing Zim. Lotsa collateral damage when Dib and his sister Gaz battle mini-Zim with a remote-controlled nano-drone inside Dib’s body.

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:23:11 +0000

Vi stopped the Servant of Darkness based on Lydea Mallor during the Great Darkness Saga by shrinking into a cerebral artery, then expanding and causing a stroke. And yes, art by Giffen.