Comments on: Ultimate Fantastic Four #23: A Medical Review

By: Jack Hare

Jack Hare — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:29:37 +0000

Perhaps she is referring to the extent of decay already afflicting his zombie brain, and meant to say, “collapsed his remaining synapse”.

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:42:26 +0000

More likely, the writer should have had her say, “I just cracked his cerebral cortex”. Primary motor functions, after all.

By: Lunar Archivist

Lunar Archivist — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 05:27:46 +0000

Maybe this is all just a matter of poor terminology usage on Sue’s part? She might have meant to say that she collapsed the left HEMISPHERE of his brain, for example. I don’t know if her force field can possibly be used in that way, but that’s another question…

Besides, you’re talking about a girl who once said to her boyfriend, “You want I should call the TV news now, or should I practice a few tricks with it first?”

Now, I don’t claim to be a master of the written word or even the English language here, but I think that I can safely say that, whatever qualifies Susan Storm as a child genius, it most definitely isn’t her grammar skills.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:35:06 +0000

One down, 99,999,999,999,999 to go.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:36:29 +0000

OK, OK, I give. Here's a statistic I just found: "It is estimated that the human brain contains 100 billion (10¹¹) interneurons averaging 1000 synapses on each; that is, some 10¹⁴ connections." So that's 100,000,000,000,000 synapses (one hundred trillion)

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:45:09 +0000

“There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of synapses in the brain …”

Um, really? Doctor, there are billions of NEURONS in the brain, each of which represents at least one synapse. Think about it.

By: David

David — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:07:37 +0000

Paul’s right, “brain-damaged” is not supposed to be used as a verb at all. “Brain-damaged” is an adjective phrase. “I gave him brain damage” is the only correct way to say it.

By: Paul A.

Paul A. — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:04:19 +0000

“I don’t think “brain-damaged” is supposed to be hyphenated when used as a verb.”

I don’t think “brain-damaged” is supposed to be used as a verb at all… but if it is, I think it has to be hyphenated, because it’s being used as a single unit. “I brain damaged him” just doesn’t work, even to the small extent that “I brain-damaged him” does.