#Gerry Woods

[pat1dee]

2000AD Annual 1978

Fleetway

Cover by Gerry Woods

[bonanana]

I need someone who looks at me the way Gerry Woods looks at Ed Wells.

[potato-lord-but-not]

doodles baby !!

[killyourdeadpoet]

lets go asexuals lets go

[theglowingeyeballz]

To the tma fan I met in the archeology museum in Greece I’m still thinking about you. Pip if you’re somehow reading this I had a dream abt u tonight

[evilhorse]

Doctor Fate will not live through the night!

(All-Star Comics #62)

[cowprintsillies]

Everytime I see Will Wood my brain says “ah yes, spiral avatar Gerard Keay”

[prince-rat]

markers pencils pens colors colors colors!

[sciencefictiongallery]

Gerry Wood

[gunpowdertimsleftgun]

okay so for tomorrow

[eye-catching-tma-headcanons]

1: Jon is genderqueer and their pronouns are: he/she/they

2: Annabelle runs a small store that sells knitted accessories called "Yarn-Wear"

3: Gerry is agender and his pronouns are he/him

4: Oliver wears white fishnet gloves when he wants to feel fancy

5: Both Jon and Martin know how to sew clothes

1: Jon dabbles in so much gender-fuckery and I aspire to be just like them

2: The mech is 70% spiders web and the softest most durable crap you’ve ever seen and felt

3: Much like Jon, I aspire to be more like Gerry

4: Oliver is so dapper no wonder he invokes such jealousy

5: They become the honorary grandparents of Somewhere Else, no matter their actual ages

[charlies-tma-blog]

this week’s episode. holy shit i am screaming and giggling kicking my feet twirling my hair. it was SO fun. starts with a hilarious dedication. sam is doing more and more paperwork coming out of who knows where, about intrusive questions related to fears and death and blood and existentialism. celia mentions vaguely the institute and a statement (a proper magnus statement!!) about a magnus institute artefact starts playing seemingly on its own with jon’s voice. dnd mentioned. evil dice. statement giver slowly losing their sense of self and enjoying dispensing luck to others in and of itself (fate avatar becoming??). “we both stare at the table and the dice stare back”. i immediately go oh this one was written by jonny wasn’t it. it’s confirmed by the ridiculously gruesome description of gary’s death. [Transcription ends due to interruption. Statement giver declared dead by paramedics at-scene.] cuts to gwen and lena shenanigans. teddy (!!) returns. new info about alice/sam’s background together. layers revealed about alice maybe being jealous of celia?? sam asks alice to go to the magnus ruins with him. “well, we used to be.” [sigh] “when do we leave?”

[cantsayidont]

September/October 1976. The 1970s revival of ALL-STAR COMICS briefly saw Keith Giffen in august company: providing breakdowns to be finished by the legendary Wally Wood. Here, they provide a stirring reintroduction for the Golden Age Clark Kent, now the middle-aged editor of the Metropolis Daily Star, but not yet too old to declare:

[kryptonbabe]

Archaeology vs. Paleontology, how it feels to be elegantly told by Hawkman that you're dumb

From All-Star Comics #61 & 62 (1976) by Gerry Conway, Keith Giffen & Wally Wood

I'm currently reading a JSA comic in which an astronaut flies to the surface of the sun and, instead of dying, becomes a powerful being capable of manipulating high levels of energy. I'm having fun, so I don't care about the science of it. However few pages later I get the panel above... Mixing up archaeology and paleontology? Now this is too much, that's where I draw the line! (Although I was too quick to judge, and Hawkman had my back all along).

I have no idea what is the scientific field of Dr. Kliburn's studies, but when he says: "Mucking about the ruins of Egypt, exploring ancient Inca pyramids, digging up dinosaur bones in Arizona -- all of that makes sense for an archaeologist" to Carter Hall a.k.a. Hawkman, an archaeologist, he badly mixes things up making dinosaur bones part of an archaeologist job. So ok, studying the remains of life is the business of many branches of science, and both archaeology and paleontology study the remains of organisms, but there's a difference in the type of remains they study.

Archaeology is the scientific study of ancient and recent human remains and artifacts (bones and teeth, ancient cool pottery, statues, funeral urns, tools, vases). Think: Lara Croft; Indiana Jones (I'm not saying he's good at his job though!).

Paleontology is the scientific study of all past life on Earth (dinosaurs, extinct fungi, plants, saber-tooth tigers etc), primarily through the study of fossils - so way beyond the remains of humans and their artifacts. Think: all the smart people in Jurassic Park; Ross, from Friends? (Oh boy we need better representation).

A little about objects of study: fossils studied by paleontologists and archeologists include bones, shells, body imprints, wood etc; so these fields of study might overlap (i.e. similar tools and excavation techniques), though their goals are different. Fossils can be remains of anything, there are different kinds of it. Trace fossils for example are like footprints, nests, or handprints left behind by creatures.

Above are the pictures of two cases of trace fossils, but while the study of the human footprints fossils on the left is a job for an archaeologist, the study of the non-human footprints, on the right, is a job for an paleontologist.

Now, what about poop? You might be asking yourself... and yes fossilized poop is also a fascinating object of study, they are scientifically called coprolites and by analyzing the fossilized poop of the Neolithic workers who built the the Stonehenge monument archaeologists found them littered with parasitic worm eggs. I mean... disgusting, but how cool is that we are able to learn that? They made these amazing structures which some people atribute to aliens and super advanced technology, but they had no idea they were eating infected meat, and that's such a human thing to do!

On the other hand when paleontologists study and collect animal fossil coprolites they find out more about that animal's way of life, their ecology, their environment, which is super important considering we can only study their remains. One of such early paleontologists, and true icon in the field of collecting ancient dinosaur feces and bones, was Mary Anning, a pioneer of paleontology in the early 1800s (she's cool as heck)!

Now that we establish that: I'm sorry Dr. Kliburn, but that is obviously a human remain, therefore a job for Hall Carter, an archaeologist! He also mentions a fly trapped in amber (and I know it is a sort of metaphor, but), that would be a job for an paleontologist... Kliburn is a really confused man. And Hawkman is just too polite to bluntly correct his colleague, instead he chooses a more subtle approach:

By emphasizing that the "proper study of mankind is man" Carter very elegantly corrects Dr. Kliburn's wrong assertions, indirectly pointing that his field is the study of mankind and their artifacts, not other aspects of nature, he won't be looking into flies preserved in amber or excavating dinosaur bones in Arizona (although... to Kliburn's merit, Arizona is indeed a state with a rich fossil record with many different dinosaurs and other animal bones and trees preserved). A very polite way call someone a fool.

I'm guessing that the writer, Gerry Conway, was probably aware of the difference between the two occupations and interested in making a tongue in cheek comment on it. Not that comics need to be scientifically correct, far from it, I love it when they're not. But I also love it when we can use them to learn something.

Further indication of that point is that if we take a look at Hall Carter's home in the above panel, we don't see any signs of animal remains, we do see what look like human artifacts, tools, weapons and masks. It is clear Keith Giffen and Wally Wood, the artists of the issue, are aware of an archaeologist's objects of study. And if you're asking yourself who the uninvited guest is: yes it is Dr. Kliburn himself attempting to rob Hawkman's house...

Dr. Kliburn dies that same issue by the very human fossil he was trying to steal. So that's what you get for mixing up two serious and interesting scientific fields... Thank you for reading this!

[evilhorse]

You’re the fastest man alive, remember? Or is that just a sexist myth?

(All-Star Comics #60)