What can I expect from Polite Dissent in the New Year?

December 31st, 2004

Filed under: General

  • More medical reviews than ever, including
    • A look at Manga — medically. Starting with a few choice vignettes from Sgt. Frog
    • Transfusion Confusion continues!
    • A closer look at the Siver Age. Just how good a volunteer nurse was Lois? And could Virus X really give Superman Krytonian leprosy, even though leprosy is a bacterial disease?
    • An all Dr. Mid-Nite (and Dr. Midnight and Dr. Mid-Nite) week
    • An all Superman Family Week
  • The Hawk and Dove chronology picks up speed. Coming next is Crisis on Infinite Earths, a series that will change the team forever (cue ominous music).
  • The first Polite Dissent contest — with loads of exciting prizes. Coming soon!
  • Guilty Pleasures galore!
  • Flashback Week, a look back at the medical comic books of the 1950s and ’60s, will return this summer
  • More Zatanna — naked! (Just kidding — no naked magicians here — just a tease for the search engines. Although we do have the ever popular Zatanna in culottes.)
  • More obscure Monty Python references than ever before (and thanks again to the Polite-Wife for the complete boxed set of Monty Python’s Flying Circus on DVD — something I’ve wanted for years!) Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more.
  • Conventions: I plan on attending Millennicon in Ohio in March. I doubt I’ll attend Wizard World Chicago this year because we already have plans that week, and it was too big and “corporate” for my tastes. I am considering Dragon-Con (my sister has moved to Atlanta), Mid-Ohio Comic Con (it was a lot of fun the last time we went) and the Baltimore Comic-Con

8 Responses to “ What can I expect from Polite Dissent in the New Year? ”

  1. Rose
    December 31st, 2004 at 2:28 pm

    Hey, maybe we’ll get to meet you! Have you been to Millenicom? It’s only a tiny drive for us, but I know nothing about it.

    And have you considered SPACE? I think I slightly preferred Mid-Ohio, but we’ll be headed back to SPACE anyway this year. I don’t remember anymore if there were non-small-press books for sale, though.

  2. Scott
    December 31st, 2004 at 2:40 pm

    I’ve been going to Millennicon every year for about the past 10 years (I missed one year because I was deployed in the Gulf, and another year because of that whole “wedding” thing). It’s a nice small convention, more SF/Fantasy than comics (and an always good anime room). Filker Tom Smith, one of our favorites, is almost always there as well.

  3. Todd Murry
    December 31st, 2004 at 6:54 pm

    Happy New Year – I’m hoping this will be a great one for everyone!!

  4. Anonymous
    January 1st, 2005 at 10:41 pm

    First, Happy New Year!

    Second, I like your True Tales of Medical School and True Tales of Military Medicine, and I’m looking forward to the manga medical reviews. What happens if Ranma gets pregnant and touches hot water? Would he carry the baby the way Cwayita Ncise carried Nhlahla
    (see http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1363557,00.html)?

  5. Scott
    January 2nd, 2005 at 12:41 am

    That’s an interesting question and I have a couple of theories…

  6. Jim Kosmicki
    January 3rd, 2005 at 10:00 pm

    will you be reviewing Tezuka’s medical manga — BlackJack, I think it’s called? It’s been reprinted in English a couple of times, not nearly as many volumes as there are in Japan. This is the one with the freelance surgeon who operates on himself in at least one story. I’d love your take on that one.

  7. Scott
    January 3rd, 2005 at 11:30 pm

    I was going to start with Case Closed and Sgt. Frog, but that one sounds interesting. Let me see if I can track it down….

  8. Anonymous
    January 4th, 2005 at 9:06 am

    Hi again! I have another recommendation: Battle Angel Alita (or Gunnm in the original Japanese). All 9 volumes are now available in English, and they’re starting to translate the sequel series too. The main character is a cyborg and one of her best friends is a doctor!

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