#gas detection panel

[snsnorthern]

Securing Commercial Kitchens with Gas Interlock Systems

Commercial kitchens are bustling environments where safety is paramount. The risk of gas leaks and fires makes it essential to implement effective safety measures. One such critical safety device is a gas interlock system, designed to prevent dangerous situations by ensuring that ventilation systems are fully operational before gas appliances can be used.

Understanding the Functionality of Gas Interlock Systems

A gas interlock system serves as a safeguard in commercial kitchens, ensuring that gas supplies are automatically cut off if ventilation fails. This prevents the accumulation of dangerous gases and reduces the risk of fire or explosion. These systems are crucial for maintaining a safe working environment in any establishment that uses gas appliances.

The Role of Gas Interlock Panels in Enhancing Safety

At the heart of every gas interlock system is the gas interlock panel. This control panel is responsible for monitoring the status of the ventilation system and controlling the gas supply. If a fault is detected, the panel immediately shuts off the gas, preventing potential hazards. The panel’s role is vital in ensuring that the interlock system functions correctly and efficiently.

Compliance with Safety Regulations through Gas Interlock Systems

In many regions, safety regulations mandate the use of gas interlock systems in commercial kitchens. These regulations are in place to protect both staff and customers from the dangers of gas leaks and inadequate ventilation. By installing a gas interlock system, businesses can ensure they are compliant with local laws and provide a safer environment for everyone.

Key Features of Modern Gas Interlock Systems

Modern gas interlock systems are equipped with various features designed to enhance safety and functionality. These include sensors that monitor air pressure and flow, alarms that alert users to faults, and manual override functions for emergencies. These features make gas interlock systems an indispensable part of any commercial kitchen’s safety protocol.

The Importance of Regular Maintenance for Gas Interlock Systems

To ensure that a gas interlock system continues to function correctly, regular maintenance is essential. This includes checking the integrity of the ventilation system, testing sensors and alarms, and ensuring that the gas interlock panel is operating as intended. Regular maintenance helps to prevent system failures and ensures that the kitchen remains a safe environment.

Integrating Gas Interlock Systems with Other Safety Measures

While gas interlock systems are critical, they should be part of a broader safety strategy. This strategy might include fire suppression systems, regular staff training, and the use of personal protective equipment. Integrating gas interlock systems with these additional safety measures ensures comprehensive protection against potential hazards.

Choosing the Right Gas Interlock System for Your Kitchen

When selecting a gas interlock system, it is crucial to consider the specific needs of your kitchen. Factors such as the size of the kitchen, the type of gas appliances used, and local safety regulations will influence your choice. Investing in a reliable system tailored to your kitchen’s requirements ensures optimal safety and compliance.

Conclusion: Prioritize Safety with Advanced Gas Interlock Solutions

Commercial kitchens must prioritize safety to protect both staff and customers. A gas interlock system is an essential component of any kitchen’s safety measures, ensuring compliance with regulations and preventing dangerous incidents. To explore reliable gas interlock solutions, visit snsnorthern.com.

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[10thitsugaya]

Mangas I plan to make a colo from a panel (or more) in the coming future :

Gakuen Alice,

Blue Lock,

Kamemoshita Ron,

Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun

[fenricken]

DCxDP Week 2023 Day 2

Day 2: Danny Fenton | Full Hazmat AU | Fear Gas

Continuation of Day One

John was bored out of his mind, but he needed to pretend to be paying attention as whichever Green Lantern this was droned on and on about something Constantine didn’t care about. The Bat had been after him more often, asking him questions about Dani ever since they met in the House. John wasn’t exactly down with Batman investigating his kid, so he took to escaping as soon as the opportunity arose. Unfortunately, this just led to Batman trying to find him everytime John was in the vicinity.

The Green Lantern stopped for a questions, and John was ready to breathe a sigh of relief that it was almost over, when alarms started going off.

“Ecto-entity detected approaching Watchtower. Readying offensive measures.”

Batman pulled up the monitors, and John immediately recognized Dani in her ghost form.

“Shut down the counter-measures!” he shouted, Batman immediately backing him up to Flash, who turned them off. John and Batman rushed to one of the rooms with windows, hoping Dani would get the message and meet them where they were visible, ignoring whether or not the rest of the Justice League followed. 

As hoped, Dani phased through the window and rushed towards John.

“Dad! Dad! It’s Danny! He hasn’t been answering his phone, so I went to Metropolis to see Jazz, but she hadn’t heard from him either! So she’s going to Amity to see if she can figure out what’s going on and I thought, well maybe we need an adultier-adult but you’re the adultiest adult I know who can help!” Dani sucked in a huge breath when she had finished getting her words out in a rush.

“Alright, alright, I’ll head over there right away to look for your brother. But, I want you to stay out of there, love do you hear me? I know you’d want to help your brother, but if something’s gone topsy-turvy in a ghost way we need you to keep your distance so you’re safe, yeah?”

“She can stay up here.” Batman grunted. “I’ll go with you, and we can keep her updated.”

Dani looked hesitantly over at the other heroes before looking back at Batman. “You’ll give me updates the whole time?”

“Hmm” Batman grunted, giving her a slight nod.

“Ok…”

Seeing she was prepared to stay at the Watchtower, John turned to Batman. “Let me get some anti-overshadowing spells on you, just in case, then we can head out.”

—

“I got eyes on the last lab technician, looks like he’s just about to leave and then we should just have to worry about the guards.” Red Robin reported to his teammates. Impulse was bouncing around impatiently, while Superboy was using his enhanced vision to keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary. Wonder Girl was sitting closer to their chosen entrance, keeping an eye out for anyone who might spot them when they enter.

They had been casing out the DEO facility ever since Secret told them she suspected they were holding an entity hostage again. She had sat this mission out, but the rest were ready to get the drop on the facility tonight and rescue anyone that might be being held captive, as well as figure out which organization the DEO was apparently collaborating with.

The group began sneaking their way towards Wonder Girly, who was now holding the roof-paneling up. They dropped down into the empty warehouse’s rafters, keeping silent so as not to alert the guards that were patrolling the inside.

“There, far corner, just like RR said,” Impulse pointed to a door that was guarded by two men. Every other guard was occupied with patrolling the warehouse. The team steadily made their way towards the door, keeping quiet, but moving quickly.

Once they reached the door, Red Robin noticed a grate at the same level as the rafters, which seemed to lead directly into the next room. He silently pointed it out to his teammates, who exchanged confused looks with each other. They decided to risk it anyway, if it meant they could avoid having to take out the guards at the door.

The crawled through, and landed in front of a containment unit filled with gas. Red Robin and Impulse immediately headed towards the computers to get any information they could about what was going on, while Superboy and Wonder Girl took a look around the rest of the lab to figure out if they could find whoever Secret told them about.

Red Robin finally spoke, breaking the quiet. “It looks like they were experimenting with the effects of fear gas on…something. I think I can siphon the fear gas on the containment unit.

“Well, do it.” Wonder Girl said, as she and Superboy turned to face the containment unit.

Red Robin clicked a couple buttons, and the four teens gathered around to watch the gas siphon out of the containment unit, revealing a small figure lying prone on the floor. 

“I think it should be safe to go in now.” Red Robin said. Impulse and Superboy were already figuring out how to get the chamber open. As soon as the door opened, Wonder Girl and Superboy approached to pick up the child.

He had white hair, and they could see green lights below his eyelids, though they never opened. His breathing was shallow, and his heartbeat slow.

“He’s so tiny… He can’t be older than 5 or 6.” Superboy said, making sure he was settled properly in Wonder Girl’s arms.

“Let’s get out of here, quickly. I’ll set charges to blow up everything, and Impulse can help me get out.” Red Robin said, indicating the vent again.

“On it.” Superboy and Wonder Girl crawled through the vent again, making their way across the rafters to their initial entry point. Red Robin and Impulse followed soon after, and they left together as a team.

When they were a few rooftops away, Red Robin triggered the charges, and they watched the facility go up in flames.

“Mmmm… Where a’ I..?” They turned to face the kid, who was staring at them sleepily.

“Hey, you’re alright. You’re safe now.” Superboy told him. The boy didn’t seem to register the words, and fell back asleep.

“We should get him back to the Watchtower now.” Wonder Girl said. The team quickly made their way to the zeta tubes, and to the medical section, where the boy was taken for observation.

Secret approached them as they were watching the medical team take stock of the boy. “Thanks,” she said. They all turned in silence, to watch as doctors and nurses rushed around, taking the boy's vitals.

“Of course.”

A/N:

Was more tired than I though, lol, took way longer than expected to finish this.

Still hoping to get at least one more day's prompts in to continue this, but don't know if I'll continue using dpxdc week prompts to finish the story

[darkw1ng-duck]

I am St Canard’s #1 superhero/detective, Darkwing Duck!! It can be difficult to meet an amazing avenger such as myself, so that’s why I created this blog! To make it easier for the people to connect with their favorite superhero! While Darkwing is speaking, Gosalyn is copying whatever they do and Launchpad is trying not to laugh. The crime fighter does not notice her at all.

I’m a pretty busy hero in my fight against the fiendish foes that plague our fair city, though I will do my best to reply to everyone as soon as possible! A- Darkwing is interrupted by the pilot's giggling

What’s got you laughing so much LP? Darkwing says with an unamused expression.

Ugh wait don’t tell me you crashed into one of the shelves and a canister of laughing gas went off again? Darkwing face palmed. Gosalyn does the same, but more dramatically. Heh heh nah its not that, Deedubya!

Well what is it Launchpad?! I’m dying to know what could be so funny that caused you to interrupt my intro! Darkwing crossed his arms, looking very impatient and annoyed. Gosalyn copies him. Haha you might wanna turn around!

DW turns around and sees Gos, she waves at him. Hey Darkwing!!

G-I mean little girl I do not know, what are you doing here?! Shouldn’t you be at home doing something like uhh homework!? Got bored and wanted to hang out with you guys!

Heheh uhh d’ya want me to stop the tape? Darkwing and Gosalyn stare at the pilot.

Yeahh. Just make sure to cut this part out before it gets uploaded. WHAT! Ya can count on me, Deedubya!

End of recording.

Link to my askbox --- > https://darkw1ng-duck.tumblr.com/ask

OOC: Unfortunately I couldn't find the energy to finish drawing the rest of these panels. Here's the sketches for the whole scene though!

[yuriinadress]

OK one good thing that I loved about Fitzmartin's writing of Bernard in this issue was that he's just some fucking guy. Like he's always been some fucking guy pre and post n52 but he's some guy with a lot of charisma and it's weird kind of charisma that specifically works on Gothamites (yeah he hasn't actually met anyone else that isn't from Gotham but I fucking know I'm right)

So seeing that panel with Bernard leading a group of boat queers, emotionally unstable bat vigilantes, and Detective Williams and Darcy gave me just so much validation. Because I can absolutely see him in this kind of role again, gathering up random Gothamites, whether he knows they're vigilantes or not, and just leading/working with them???

And just putting it out there, I think it would be a great way to reintroduce some forgotten gothamites like colin wilkes or the ga kids

[alfredsolos]

I have been impatiently waiting for a certain comic to start and it's finally here.

Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent.

Now, let me give you a short summary of it's plot: Ultraman is killing Supermans from every single multiverse one by one. And Jon Kent travels to find him and stop him.

At the beginning of issue 1, we see Ultraman killing a Superman:

We can see that he is very strong now, and will be a tough opponent.

Next panel, we see Jon and Jay walking around together and Jon is happy that his identity is secret again. (For those of you who don't know, Lex admitted that the world needed a Superman and decided to build a machine that wiped everyone's memory of the Superfamily's identity.) Jay, though, is still known as Superman's boyfriend and is a bit grumpy 'cause of that. Anyways Jon detects something that is falling from the sky and sees that it's thousands of satellites merged together. He tries to stop it with the help of Oracle:

He doesn't need to, however. Because the next moment we see Val-Zod, a Superman from Earth-2, arrive and save the day:

Val is not alone though, he brings a Red Tornado with him.

Jon takes him back to his house, along with Mister Terrific greeting them. Val explains to everyone that Ultraman is killing Supermans and they need Jon's help. Lois, however, does not want Ultraman near his son after what he did to him.

(For those of you who don't know; when Jor-El took Jon to space, Jon got sucked through a black hole and landed in Earth-3 with the Crime Syndicate. Ultraman then saw him and kidnapped him. He kept Jon inside a volcano for 6 years and abused him both physically and mentally.)

And later on, Red Tornado reveals herself to be Lois Lane from another Earth, to convince this Earth's Lois Lane:

After some convincing, they finally make a plan and track Ultraman to an unknown Earth. They also talk about other versions of Jon Kent, which most of them are 11 years old except for the DCeases version. (Which if you know this comic, it's so freaking good. Read it.)

Ultraman becomes aware of their appearance and immediately attacks them, injuring Red Tornado fatally. When he realises that Jon is his Jon, he uses the projector and teleports Val and Red Tornado to another Earth and plans to kidnap and throw Jon into a volcano again:

They have a fight, and Jon unleashes his new mysterious power which he gained during Lazarus Planet. Although he manages to injure Ultraman really good, he feels drained after using it and almost passes out:

Ultraman crawls on top of him to beat him up while saying horrible things. But before he can hurt Jon, someone stops him:

And at that moment, it's revealed that which Earth they're currently in:

It's the Injustice Universe and that Superman snaps Ultraman's neck as if he's nothing more than a toy.

(A bit information on who this Superman is: in the Injustice Universe, Joker destroys Metropolis killing millions of people and gasses Superman with fear gas. Superman doesn't know this and comes across Doomsday. He immediately attacks and kills Doomsday, but he later on realizes that he was gassed with something and it wasn't Doomsday he had just killed. It was his pregnant wife Lois. After that he goes batshit insane and ends up killing the Joker. He then decides to create his own regime and starts executing criminals. The whole JL gets divided after this. Batman's team and Superman's team. With the former trying to stop the latter from killing criminals.)

We get a pretty emotional scene where Superman immediately knows who Jon is.

And this is why I was so excited for this comic. This could be very good if the writer manages it properly. The writer also stated that we will see Injustice! Damian (who after accidentally killing Dick, takes up the Nightwing mantle and sides with Superman) and Jon together.

And I can't begin to tell you how excited I am for Superman and Jon's interaction together.

[tobiasdrake]

We're in. And we are making bad choices.

For the record, I'm pretty sure that whoever attacked us slipped out the door into the panel room and is now hiding behind the giant vault door we had to open to get in here. But, just like Desuhiko wouldn't let us disarm security, Yuma won't let us go back out into the panel room and check.

Fink the Slaughter Artist is right there, guys.

Got stabbed. Three times, as a matter of fact, judging from the wounds in his back.

Honestly, as Slaughter Art goes, I'm disappointed. Fink had ample time and this whole room to use as his canvas. "On floor stabbed by knife" is about as mediocre of a presentation as it gets.

You're gonna have to step up your game, Fink. Check out the Nail Man crime scenes some time. Now that is dedication to the craft. I'm sorry but as a critic, I'm going to have to give this piece my lowest score ever: 76.5/100.

About fucking time. That's what I wanted to do a minute ago and you were like, "NOOOO We gotta check the body!"

We could be in there right now checking the body if you hadn't stopped me.

OH BY WE YOU MEAN "YOU'. Okay man. Nice to see the limits to your bravado are shining through again.

I mean that affectionately. I said back at Aetheria Academy that I get it: Desuhiko's job is undercover intelligence gathering. He doesn't work homicides. That's fair. I won't fault him for it.

But it's funny.

Okay, I can breathe. We'll be able to access the crime scene without choking to death on poison gas now. And I still think Fink is hiding behind that big metal door, so we might manage to corner them.

If they don't have an alternate point of exit then they have to get past us somehow. As long as we're thorough and don't rush to the scene like idiots, this should work out.

There goes that idea. If Fink isn't behind the door, then where the hell are they? That knife didn't levitate itself into Huesca's back three times.

I mean, it could have. Superpowers exist. But it didn't. He reacted to the presence of another human being in the room with him, so the killer was physically present. Somehow.

Super dead.

I'm intrigued by the whiteboard back there. It's possible that it's like that from use, but someone also might have done that to erase... something they didn't want made. If only there was a way to see what it looked like before.

...if we brought Halara here, they could use their Postcognition to see what the crime scene looked like at the moment the first witness laid eyes on it. Which would be....

Us! That would be us. Halara can use Postcognition to make this room resemble what it looks like right now, as we speak.

...

Okay, that's not going to be very useful. Especially when Shinigami can do the same thing.

I mean. Like. Almost half of the killings were me. So. I'm at a 7 victim body-count versus 11 victims not killed by me. Not counting the two Peacekeeper goons that Yomi had executed for failure.

If it makes you feel better, there's about to be more once Shinigami and I figure out whodunit.

Excuse you, Shinigami. My corpse-production rate is also probably unparalleled within the WDO. I've certainly killed way more people than any Master Detective I've met to date. Well, except maybe Halara.

Oh, this will look good on our rap sheet. Everyone, prepare to say hihi to Yomi when he walks on. I want us all to give him our biggest smiles and most pleasant waves, like there's absolutely nothing wrong with this scene at all.

He won't be fooled for a second but he'll certainly be taken aback by it, and that will be a funny sight before we die.

...actually, on second thought, maybe we could rearm security. Close the door, turn the traps back on, and let Yomi tear out his hair trying to figure out how to pry us out of here. Then we can take our time investigating the death.

Nope, too late. Plan A then.

HIHI BUDDY! How are you? I'm swell! :D

The latter, as a matter of fact. Good guess, man. I can't even begin to try and defend myself when we all know I'll be going 8-to-12 by the time the sun rises again over Kanai Ward.

Yuma, we should probably go with that plan. We can buy time for Halara to get here by... whatever method Yakou did and then kick everyone's ass.

Oooh, a party! We should definitely go along with that plan! I've been wanting a party since we first got to the sub. Maybe there'll be cupcakes.

Wait, no, these guys are fascists. Sprinkled donuts. The monsters.

HA! Distraction! I recognize that shrieking voice. The guy "dying in agony" outside is Yakou.

Watch for our chance to bail, guys.

DON'T TELL YOMI, YOU DIPSHIT. Oh my god. All that effort to create a convincing distraction and Desuhiko blurts out, "LOOK, HE'S DISTRACTING YOMI!!!"

Yuma, I know you're generally non-violent except for all the murders but slap him.

Oh hey, it's my CTU plan! Throw Desuhiko at them and run like hell! Fubuki, Yuma, this is our chance!

In seriousness, I have no idea how this would seriously work. Those two guys have guns trained on us and a third with a baton is at the door. Desuhiko's hug of doom wouldn't stop them from shooting us in the slightest.

But okay. I guess this is how we get out of here.

Least we can go hook up with Yakou and figure out a new avenue for--

Oh. Uh. Hi. You must be Fink. How's tricks....

Oh. That's how.

Shit.

Oh, shit.

Oh, shit, that wasn't a distraction! IT'S HIM! IT'S FUCKING HIM! YAKOU IS THE FIRST TO DIE.

I mean he was the most expendable. Out of everyone here, I'll miss him the least. But still. Fuck. I am not ready for people to start dropping dead.

Fink again. Tossed his cloak aside to reveal a lab coat underneath, just before 'rounding the corner and vanishing from sight.

Total poser move. Definitely Halara. :P

Another one of Fink's knives. They all have the same F carved into them. Fink likes to leave his knives behind at his crime scenes so everyone knows he did it.

We broke the tradition of two bodies in chapter three so that we could have two bodies in chapter four.

Hooo. Why Yakou? He was out-of-disguise so this wasn't a mistaken identify or anything. Which, on that note, why was he out-of-disguise? But. In any case. What could Fink have possibly had against Yakou?

Was this revenge? Did Fink cheat on his wife and Yakou exposed him? I have no idea what to make of this.

We are officially across the threshold. Our teammates are mortal now. That. Is terrifying.

[jcsmicasereports]

Emerging infectious agents: an unusual case of Metapneumovirus pneumonia in an adult patient by Graziana Francesca Greco in Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences

Abstract

Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV), a relatively new virus, is a common cause of acute respiratory infection, especially common in the pediatric population. Despite hMPV infection in adults is possible, this rarely results in serious clinical manifestation. Here, we describe a hypoxemic respiratory failure related to pneumonia in an adult patient in whom hMPV was detected in respiratory samples.

Keywords

Human Metapneumovirus; SARS-CoV-2; Covid-19.

CASE HISTORY

A 61-yr-old caucasian man presented to the Emergency Department (ASST Mantua Hospital, Mantua, Italy) with fever up to 39°C, poorly responsive to antipyretics, nocturnal dyspnea and productive cough with mucus-purulent sputum for three days. On physical examination he appeared in good general condition, collaborating and oriented. The following parameters were recorded: blood pressure 140/90mmHg, heart rate of 100 beats min-1; respiratory rate of 23 breaths min-1; and body temperature of 38.4°C. His arterial oxygen saturation on room air was 87%. Chest examination revealed abnormal breath sounds with rhonchi and fine crackles in the middle lobe and inferior lobes bilaterally, no wheezes were heard. Laboratory findings revealed lymphocytosis (81000 x 103/µl), low platelet count (113000 x 106/µl) and an increase in alanine transaminase value (59 U/L), total bilirubin value (1.13 mg/dL) and CPR value (112 mg/L). Room air arterial blood gas analysis showed a normocapnic hypoxemia: pH 7.43, carbon dioxide tension 40.5 mmHg, oxygen tension 60.4 mmHg, and HCO3 24 mmol L-1. The  SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection test on nasopharyngeal swab was negative. A chest radiograph showed multiple, small, patchy opacities in the right upper and middle lobe and  no pleural effusion was observed. Based on these findings he was admitted to the Respiratory Department.

His medical history included chronic lymphocytic leukemia in follow-up which did not require any specific treatment. He denied taking any medications or to be a smoker, he drinks a glass of wine once a day and has no known allergies. The patient was a farmer who cultivates wheat and maize but he had no animal exposure and no travel history in the last few years. There is no family history or childhood history of respiratory complaints. He was vaccinated with three dosesagainst the SARS-CoV-2 infection (Pfizer) but not against the influenza virus.

Based on the patient’s presentation and testing results, on suspicion of bacterial pneumonia he was empirically treated with IV Piperacillin/Tazobactam, the patient required oxygen support at 3L min-1 and an inhalation therapy with Beclomethasone/Formoterol was set up ex adiuvantibus. In the following days, several microbiological investigations were carried out to determine the etiology of pneumonia: blood culture, urinoculture, sputum culture, Legionella, Haemofilus and Pneumococcus serologic tests, Legionella pneumophila and Pneumococcal urinary antigen test, all of which were negative.

A  nasopharyngeal swab FilmArray Respiratory Panel Assay (NP FARP) was then requested: it was positive for human Metapneumovirus and the result was confirmed by repeating the test. For non responder fever and further increase of CPR (230 mg/l) and PCT (0.27 ng/ml), Levofloxacin and later Meropenem were added in the perspective of a resistant bacterial etiology.  On  the 6th hospitalization day a chest computed tomography (CT) scan was obtained (Figures 1 and 2) which demonstrated large opacities with gradient borders, distributed in the peribronchial area at the right upper lobe, middle lobe and both the lower lobes; they tended to the confluence configuring parenchymal consolidations with aerial bronchogram at the level of the cost-phrenic angle. Imaging also showed bilateral hilar and mediastinal lymphadenopathy (max diameter 3.4 x 2 cm), splenomegaly and absence of pleural effusion. Blood chemistry tests for HIV, Aspergillus antigen and galactomannan were also investigated but turned out negative. To rule out other infectious agents the patient underwent bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) into the middle lobe. BAL provides material for various microbiological and cytological tests: Gram stain, culture, Koch’s bacillus DNA, Galactomannan, Cytomegalovirus and P. Jirovecii and immunological analysis were negative. From respiratory virus panel on BAL only human Metapneumovirus was isolated, this unique microbiological data was according to the NP FARP’s result,  thus supporting and confirming the new hypothesis of a viral pneumonia in an adult patient with probable secondary mild immunosuppression due to his hematological disease. About ten days after entering the ward, there was a gradual decrease of CPR and a progressive improvement in clinical conditions and respiratory function to allow the suspension of oxygen therapy. At the end of hospitalization, pulmonary function tests were performed and showed a restrictive syndrome (FEV1/FVC 76.2, TLC 68% and VC 79% of predicted) and mild reduction of diffusion capacity (DLCO 62% and KCO 99%), probably representing the residual functional impairment due to viral pneumonia. The patient finally suspended all therapies and at discharge was referred for a one-month follow-up visit.

DISCUSSION

Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV), a relatively new virus first discovered in 2001, has been detected in 4-16% of patients with acute respiratory infections [1] [2] [3]. In particular, a recent review of 48 previous articles, including 100,151 patients under the age of five hospitalized for CAP, identified this virus as a cause of pneumonia in 3.9% of patients [4]. A recent study of 1386 hospitalized adult patients identified hMPV pneumonia in only 1.64%, indicating that it was much less common than in the infant population [5]. Metapneumovirus causes disease primarily in infants, but rarely can infect immunosuppressed individuals and elderly as well. Seroprevalence studies have shown that 90-100% of 5-10 years old children have previous infection [6]. Reinfection can occur during adulthood because of defected immunity acquired during the first contact with hMPV and/or because of different viral genotypes. The incubation period varies widely but is typically 3-5 days. The disease severity depends on the patient's condition and it ranges from mild upper airway infection to life-threatening pneumonia or bronchiolitis [7]. Clinically, Metapneumovirus infection is often indistinguishable from RSV infection, particularly in the pediatric population, and common symptoms include hypoxemia, cough, fever, upper and lower airway infections and wheezing [8]. hMPV infant patients are often hospitalized  for bronchiolitis and pneumonia [9]. In young adults, a flu-like syndrome with fever may occur in a small number of instances, but infection in geriatric subjects may cause severe clinical manifestations such as pneumonia and, in rare cases, death [10].

As described in this case, it was not surprising that antibiotics and corticosteroids were administered in most patients infected with Metapneumovirus mainly for two reasons: in most cases the specific diagnostic tests for hMPV are not carried out at admission and/or physicians prefer to continue steroid and antibiotic treatment to control potential unidentified bacterial infections in patients in which no etiological agent had been identified associated with hMPV infection. The overuse of these drugs could therefore be reduced through the adoption at admission of specific diagnostic tests for such etiological agent, especially if specific risk factors are present (age, immunodepression, etc.). In addition, the adoption of such tests could reduce the nosocomial spread of this virus, allowing an early isolation of the infected patient [11].

Conflicts of interest: The authors certify that there is no conflict of interest with any financial organization regarding the material discussed in the manuscript. Funding: The authors report no involvement in the research by the sponsor that could have influenced the outcome of this work.

Authors’ contributions : All authors contributed equally to the manuscript and read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Toontown: Rewritten Recap: December 2002 (Vacant No More)

December 15, 2002

The 10 day break from development for the Alpha Key contest (yes, the Alpha Key contest is part of the game’s canon) was over, and Sir Max unveiled what they’d been cooking for the Toons (as they were about to welcome 200 more residents for a total population of 300, even if the whole “up to 6 Toons per account” things means it’s probably 6 times that amount), ready to release on that very Saturday (unaware that it was actually Sunday).

A new technology called “friendship”.

Basically, Loony Labs released a firmware update to the Toon T.A.G.S. system. Now, when you click on a Toon T.A.G.S., the “Toon Details Panel” will come up, allowing you to view their location, achievements, and other relevant information. Very invasive in real life, but EXTREMELY useful in a video game.

Additionally, the Toon Details Panel allows Toons to send “Whispers” to each other. In these early stages of development, only pre-written Speedchat phrases worked with the Whisper system, but even back then, Loony Labs was working on getting Speedchat+ working as well.

Finally, all the shops in Toontown Central had finished construction, meaning that shopkeepers were scheduled to move in on the 16th, and Toons could go ahead and browse the (then-vacant) buildings.

And with that, Sir Max gave out the final 20 Alpha Keys.

(Also, a bugfix was applied to golf, removing some deprecated functions so it would actually detect functions in a sane manner. It was still broken, but slightly less so.)

December 16, 2002

Sir Max learned two horrible truths that day:

The previous day wasn’t Saturday.

Toon Hall was still under renovation, meaning Donald’s Dock was the first Neighborhood to be completed. Big oof for Toontown Central.

Why did Sir Max sleep through Saturday?

The Toon T.A.G.S. update wasn’t ready for the “Super Saturday Update”, and so Loony Labs used sleeping gas on everyone to stall for time.

But yeah, Flippy had already left Toontown Central on account of running out of black paint, all of Toontown Central’s shopkeepers had been moved into their shops, and Barnacle Boatyard’s shops were vacant but open to browsing.

December 17, 2002

Sir Max opened the post with an uncharacteristically serious (by his standards) talk about account security.

Once that was out of the way, he revealed that the Donald’s Docks shopkeepers had moved into their shops, and that Daisy Gardens’ shops were open for browsing.

Also, the changelogs are hilarious. Because one of the first 20 “contest winners” was a Toontown YouTuber who roleplayed as an actual shopkeeper NPC from the game, and the NPC’s shop opened in this update, the changelogs claim that one of the Alpha Testers opened a gym in Daisy Gardens.

December 18, 2002

Sir Max decided to mix things up, and had the Brrrgh completed before Minnie’s Melodyland.

Why?

In his own words: “It’s not like we’re in a video game where things get progressively harder with each neighborhood.”

(Also, he needed something from Eddie the Yeti’s shop.)

Aside from that, all the shopkeepers had been moved into Daisy Gardens with no issues!

December 19, 2002

Sir Max reflected on how it had been four months since Toontown Online closed down, and how Toontown Rewritten had been in development for three months.

After that fourth-wall breaking reflecting was done, Sir Max revealed he sent the construction crews back to Minnie’s Melodyland after he got what he needed, and thus all the shops are done. Plus, the Brrrgh’s shopkeepers have been moved in as well, so Toons can drop by and say “hi” to them.

December 20, 2002

Sir Max thought this update was kinda boring, but nonetheless, all of the shopkeepers had been moved into Minnie’s Melodyland, and construction on Donald’s Dreamland was complete. Thus, Toontown’s construction was finished.

I mean, the golf balls were still wanted fugitives who refused to obey the law, but aside from that, everything’s working as intended.

Plus, a heating system was installed in the Brrrgh’s shops, and Sir Max had big plans for the next day, as “Super Saturday” was coming right up!

December 21, 2002

Sir Max loves Christmastime! It’s the spirit of the season!

He’s not a big fan of the consumerism, though, considering it to be the enemy of fun.

So, when he learned that the Toon Council was planning on buying Christmas Lights, he talked them out of it, and came up with his own plan.

As the Brrrgh’s heating system is powered by lightbulbs, he unscrewed all 7,352 lightbulbs, dipped them in paint, and strung them along various trees.

Unfortunately, his genius plan hit a snag. Namely, one of the shopkeepers on Walrus Way runs a shop called “The Blizzard Wizard”.

Turns out, he’s an actual wizard, and wasn’t too happy about his heater being sabotaged for Christmas Tree Lights. Thus, he cast a spell that spread the Brrrgh’s perpetual blizzard all over Toontown, causing it to snow EVERYWHERE.

So, while everyone had to huddle for warmth, Sir Max considered it a fair trade-off for the lights, calling this another genius idea of his.

(Also, all of Donald’s Dreamland’s shopkeepers had been moved in, and a big Christmas Tree was erected in Toontown Central.)

And I’m gonna leave you on that cliffhanger because I need to SLEEP.

Next time, the Winter Holiday.

-

tbh “shit I’m gonna miss the deadline let’s knock everyone out’ is a fucking mood.

[gothamcityhistory]

Detective Comics #27

Where it all began

Cover:

This is a great cover to start things out! It's iconic!! I always love seeing the redraws of this!

I got this screenshot of the cover from the Batman: The Golden Age Vol. 1 which you can tell from the fact that the words "THE BATMAN!" on the cover are black and not red like the original cover from 1939. For the rest of this post I will be using screenshots from an old digitization of the comic except for a few which I got from The Golden Age Vol 1. which I use at the end. Even though it says "64 pages of action" on the cover, The "Bat-Man" story is only 9 pages long and I will only be focusing on that. (Sorry Slam Bradley fans!) Now to get into the issue.

It starts off with this title page where they introduce the "Bat-Man" to the reader. It's very nice!

It's very strange to see him labeled at the "Bat-Man". I'm just not used to it but anyways they drop it fully Detective Comics #30. (Also note that I read it like "Bat Dash Man")

It's also very sad to see The Batman only credited to Bob Kane. Bill Finger did mostly everything and didn't get recognition for it until 2015.

Anyway, Back to the comic-

Bruce Wayne and Commissioner Gordon are chilling out at Gordon's place when suddenly Gordon gets a call about a recent murder. They need him there right away and in the most laid-back way, he's like, "Hey, Bruce, buddy, pal, chum, they need me at a murder scene... Wanna come with?"

and Bruce is deadass like "Eh sure. Why not"

Everything was so casual in the 30s god damn.

Anyway, They rush over to the scene of the crime

and after "a thorough examination of the scene of the crime" they decide to talk to the victims son, who is the current murder suspect.

He's like, "I didn't do it, I only grabbed the knife when I pulled it out of my dad's chest!" And, weirdly, Gordon doesn't press any further on it. He's just like "Yep okay."

Also, he could've stayed alive if you didn't pull the knife out dummy. But I digress

He then responds to Gordon's question like "Dunno, Except these 3 guys"

Also the comedic timing of that- I made a joke to my friend when I first read this comic that the reason why Steve Crane was excited was because he bet Lambert a hundred bucks in 1939 dollars that the threat on his life was real- I know excited back then meant having excessive emotions but I just thought it was funny.

You sus mf. I SEE you Bruce. If that even is your real name.

I also love this panel.

After Crane gets shot the murderer/robber escapes with a piece of paper.

When Suddenly...

The Bat-Man shows up and beats the hell out of them and takes the paper. Then Gordon and the police arrive to Steven Crane's house as the Bat-Man runs away. Gordon then finds out Crane has been killed and decides to go to Paul Rogers house

Also look at my little man

He's so proud of himself.

I also love the fact that he drives off in Bruce Wayne's car from earlier in the issue. He's so silly

Meanwhile, Rogers goes to his friend's, Alfred Stryker's, neighboring Laboratory where he encounters Strykers assistant, Jennings, and gets smacked and trapped by him.

I thought this panel was hilarious.

Like Boi! What kind of guinea pigs are you experimenting with that you need to a jar that can fit a human inside and also why are you gassing guinea pigs???

He then seals the chamber but not before the "Bat-Man" enters, plugs the gas-jet and breaks Rogers out.

Speaks for itself really. Styker then finds out his assistant failed at killing Rogers and tries to kill him himself but the Bat-Man, who had hidden, jumps out and prevents the Stryker from killing Roger. The Bat-Man explains why Stryker like Velma at the end of an episode and then Stryker breaks out of The Bat-Mans hold and then

The Bat-Man straight up kills him and is like "Good."

Bro is so sus. No one acts this way. And then what's more is that Gordon is like "Man. bro is so bored all the time."

Look at my silly dressing up in his bat fursuit!!

Can't wait for next month!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sorry I basically recapped the whole story. It was very short but every panel had something interesting happening!! I definitely recommend it!!

Things I liked and found interesting!!

I found it interesting how they have text explaining the situation instead of just letting the photos do the talking.

Thought It's probably like that because they only had 9 pages to tell the story.

I liked Commissioner Gordon's fit in this issue.

It's a very nice Zebra-like suit that would allow him to fit in with the the weirdo 248 issues from now. It's just so snazzy!

I also like how Gordon takes things at face value and doesn't do some deeper thinking like how I'd assume a police commissioner would. "Well obviously he didn't kill his father. He literally just said he didn't". "I just told Bruce something amazing and he looks like he had heard it before. He must lead a boring life"

I also love The Bat-Man costume in this issue

Purple glove Batman... My beloved <3

The art in this issue is great too!! I'll pick out a few of my favourite panels to show.

Thank you all for reading my first blog post!!

Come back whenever! Rarely the same Bat-Time but always the same Bat-Blog

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Scientists detect sign that a crucial ocean current is near collapse

By Sarah Kaplan

The Atlantic Ocean’s sensitive circulation system has become slower and less resilient, according to a new analysis of 150 years of temperature data — raising the possibility that this crucial element of the climate system could collapse within the next few decades.

Scientists have long seen the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, as one of the planet’s most vulnerable “tipping elements” —meaning the system could undergo an abrupt and irreversible change, with dramatic consequences for the rest of the globe. Under Earth’s current climate, this aquatic conveyor belt transports warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic, and then sends colder water back south along the ocean floor. But as rising global temperatures melt Arctic ice, the resulting influx of cold freshwater has thrown a wrench in the system — and could shut it down entirely.

The study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications suggests that continued warming will push the AMOC over its “tipping point” around the middle of this century. The shift would be as abrupt and irreversible as turning off a light switch, and it could lead to dramatic changes in weather on either side of the Atlantic.

“This is a really worrying result,” said Peter Ditlevsen, a climate physicist at the University of Copenhagen and lead author of the new study. “This is really showing we need a hard foot on the brake” of greenhouse gas emissions.

Ditlevsen’s analysis is at odds with the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which drew on multiple climate models and concluded with “medium confidence” that the AMOC will not fully collapse this century.

Other experts on the AMOC also cautioned that because the new study doesn’t present new observations of the entire ocean system — instead, it is extrapolating about the future based on past data from a limited region of the Atlantic — its conclusions should be taken with a grain of salt.

“The qualitative statement that AMOC has been losing stability in the last century remains true even taking all uncertainties into account,” said Niklas Boers, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. “But the uncertainties are too high for a reliable estimate of the time of AMOC tipping.”

The new study adds to a growing body of evidence that this crucial ocean system is in peril. Since 2004, observations from a network of ocean buoys has showed the AMOC getting weaker — though the limited time frame of that data set makes it hard to establish a trend. Scientists have also analyzed multiple “proxy” indicators of the current’s strength, including microscopic organisms and tiny sediments from the seafloor, to show the system is in its weakest state in more than 1,000 years.

For their analysis, Peter Ditlevsen and his colleague Susanne Ditlevsen (who is Peter’s sister) examined records of sea surface temperatures going back to 1870. In recent years, they found, temperatures in the northernmost waters of the Atlantic have undergone bigger fluctuations and taken longer to return to normal. These are “early warning signals” that the AMOC is becoming critically unstable, the scientists said — like the increasingly wild wobbles before a tower of Jenga blocks starts to fall.

Susanne Ditlevsen, a statistician at the University of Copenhagen, then developed an advanced mathematical model to predict how much more wobbling the AMOC system can handle. The results suggest that the AMOC could collapse any time between now and 2095, and as early as 2025, the authors said.

The consequences would not be nearly as dire as they appear in the 2004 sci-fi film “The Day After Tomorrow,” in which a sudden shutdown of the current causes a flash freeze across the northern hemisphere. But it could lead to a drop in temperatures in northern Europe and elevated warming in the tropics, Peter Ditlevsen said, as well as stronger storms on the East Coast of North America.

Marilena Oltmanns, an oceanographer at the National Oceanography Center in Britain, noted in a statement that the temperatures in the north Atlantic are “only one part of a highly complex, dynamical system.” Though her own research on marine physics supports the Ditlevsens’ conclusion that this particular region could reach a tipping point this century, she is wary of linking that transition to a full-scale change in Atlantic Ocean circulation.

Yet the dangers of even a partial AMOC shutdown mean any indicators of instability are worth investigating, said Stefan Rahmstorf, another oceanographer at the Potsdam Institute who was not involved in the new study.

“As always in science, a single study provides limited evidence, but when multiple approaches lead to similar conclusions this must be taken very seriously,” he said. “The scientific evidence now is that we can’t even rule out crossing a tipping point already in the next decade or two.”

Chris Mooney contributed to this report.

[Washington Post]

[chroniclers-circle]

chromium 2a

She was lucky there were more planets than just the first one in the Chromium system. The first touchdown on the gas-giant moon had been a bust—but there was plenty more for her to uncover here. Like on the mid-sized rocky planet she orbited now. The glittering expanse of stars beamed at her from the panel of glass in the hallway between her living quarters and the command-bridge of the ship.

There wasn’t a lot of time, but she leaned forward and pressed her face against it—and just breathed. The ship subroutines would include a scolding message for her in the logs tomorrow morning about her lack of attention to proper cleanliness and maintenance standards for exterior view-ports, but she couldn’t care less at the moment. If they’d wanted her to care what the computer thought, they wouldn’t have made it feel like the letters she got from her far-flung family: rare, untimely, and often with the air of disapproving of her general choices in life.

Her eyes fluttered closed as she stood alone in front of the vast expanse of space, only two meters insulated from the endless void.

Before long it was time to suit up again though. Her hair went into a braid, then a bun, then was finally tucked into the helmet of her space-suit. Seals were done up, vital monitors were engaged, and equipment were checked and double checked. She headed for the gangplank, and hit the button for the airlock door once more.

Sys.log: First Impressions

The notification system on her wrist marks a ping the moment her foot touches the planet’s dusty surface.

It seemed that unlike Chromium 1b, the notable features of 2a were located far underground. Which meant that she’d need to find a way down there in order to investigate, fulfill her exploration obligations, and find samples. She glanced out over the barren wasteland around her—it didn’t seem as though the Chromium system had birthed any life. What she had seen so far were vast isolated verandas, and the view stretching before her was yet another one.

It was so similar to what she felt standing before the viewport in her ship. It was so alien to everything she’d ever felt before. She didn’t know the last time she’d heard her own voice. The notification system pinged again. Her scanners had found a cave entrance.

She had her way down.

Sys.log: Descent

The cavern mouth yawned before her. Thick powder caked the crevices around it, evidence of powerful erosive wind that she hadn’t yet encountered. Her boots sank down into it, until it covered her boots up to the ankles, teasing at the seal where her suit ended. She wrinkled her nose and peered down into the depths. She couldn’t hear anything that wasn’t recorded and piped into the helmet of her suit—and the device worked well to filter out environmental background noise—but she thought she could hear her breathing echoed back at her from deep within the hole in front of her.

She flexed her fingers and activated the flashlight at the end of her gloves and the one embedded into the center of her helmet, between her eyes, and began her descent.

The walls crooked full of ragged rocks, with faults and cracks that seemed the result of whatever pressures and winds arose on the surface. She wouldn’t be surprised if this was a planet eternally wrecked with storms. She’d likely landed in the only patch of calm weather in a very long time.

Her feet sank into the powder as she pressed inward and downward, hunting for the elusive signal that her scanners had detected. The hologram of a map flashed on her wrist, the ghost bones of some ancient pattern surrounding her, promising her something worthwhile to add to her report. Her feet slid beneath her, and she kept going.

Sys.log: Ruin Filled Caverns

She wanted to chalk it up to her imagination when she first noticed—but after a handful more steps into what could only be the remnants of a long forgotten city, she gave in to the realization that the walls themselves were glowing. It was not a strong glow, she had seen brighter bioluminescent algae on Myril, but it was enough that she could make out the corners and contours of every crumbling building and disintegrating wall.

There had been people here once. Her hypothesis about the Chromium system was wrong—but not entirely. For whoever had lived her once was long dead. Dust and the fine powder from the surface dulled the glow, and proved that she was the first person to set foot in these caverns for at least a millenia, if not more. She looked around more closely, trying to figure out if she could uncover why the city had been so totally abandoned.

Stepping closer to the wall, she realized. The powder down here was different than the surface. Down here, the powder came away black on the fingertips of her gloves. Char. Soot. Things had burned down here, and there was every likelihood that the fine powder that sifted across the dusty surface was comprised partly of bones. She shuddered, and stepped back toward the middle of what used to be a street.

Walking through the ruins was less the awesome experience she’d had on other planets, and more the acknowledgment of an unknown mausoleum. A tragedy had taken place here, and she would do nothing to undermine the profound solemnity that such a truth required.

The walls had been carved with art, beautiful runes in angular shapes that she could not read—perhaps that no one left in the universe could read. She had not seen any other signs of life on this planet, after all, and the evidence of storms on the surface could have been the result of any extinction level event.

She swallowed, and looked around once more. She’d snagged a pebble that had fallen from one of the walls as a sample of that glowing rock—and that was all there was left to do here.

She made it back to her ship quickly, and the glowing pebble bid farewell to its home planet, and found itself tucked next to the strange chrome fruit as evidence of her ventures through the Chromium system.

NEXT PLANET

[shai-manahan]

This story reminds me a lot of monster in the best way possible The way you thread stories and characters is very good. By any chance have you read monster or any other manga and if so do you have any recs? If not then I highly reccomend it, I think you'll really like it.

Monster happens to be my favorite manga 😳

In all honesty, that story still has a place in my heart even today, so much so that I even based some of Owen's personality from Tenma lmao. But I didn't realize it captures the same mood as well! You've got no idea how much happy I was that HM has been compared to Monster for the second time now.

Monster was the best I've seen in terms of a story combining the twists and turns along the plot with the development of the characters--I didn't even think Eva would be so interesting right at the end--and, well, I suppose I have the same goals for writing HM.

Sadly, I haven't been reading manga lately, and I feel like Monster is really just on a league of its own (or maybe I've just forgotten what I've read before) but I do have a couple of recs! Please keep in mind that I have read most of these stories at a time when I wasn't exactly quite of age yet, so there might be some here that doesn't portray its themes as well as I once thought.

Pluto - This is the author's other work, actually! It's about a robot detective who's trying to find the perpetrator behind the continuing robot and human deaths. The story's not as good as Monster's, but it's also thought-provoking, and the depths of the characters are magnificently shown through limited panels. Naoki also has this one called 20th Century Boys but I haven't checked it out yet.

Parasyte - So, this one's a psychological horror, and I remember it being one of the few that got me thinking a lot about societal norms and the concept of altruism vs selfishness. It's sad--some of the scenes really got to me--and full of contradictions, yet somehow everything about it is beautiful. I haven't checked out the anime, though, so I'm not sure how different it would be, but there are exactly three scenes in the manga that will always haunt me.

Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi - I remember being surprised at how serious the themes were for a manga that partially centered on the lives of children. It got too heavy for me at times as a teenager, mostly because some of the scenes in there hit too close to home, but everything from the mystery to the characters were all brilliant! I'd highly advise you to be wary of the content warnings, though, as it really doesn't shy away from showing those.

To Your Eternity - I actually haven't finished this one, but only because I lost someone at the time when I was reading it, but I think it handles the concept of grief and survival quite well. Cried at the beginning 10/10.

A few webtoons that may be worth reading as well:

Gepetto

Bastard

Sweet Home (I'm sorry but the live adaptation doesn't do it justice)

Dark Mortal

[kudosmyhero]

Detective Comics (vol. 1) #826: Slayride

Read Date: February 18, 2023 Cover Date: February 2007 ● Writer: Paul Dini ● Penciler: Don Kramer ● Inker: Wayne Faucher ● Colorist: John Kalisz ● Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher ● Editor: Michael Siglain ◦ Peter Tomasi ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

Reactions As I Read: ● the cover of this issue is stunning. I love the black and white art with “Detective Comics” in red. ● the opening splash is great, too. I can tell the art in this issue is going to be a feast for the eyes! ● “Any port in a storm.” Except maybe this port… Though Joker’s eyes look unsettlingly kindly…

● Ah, there we go. That’s a bit more Joker-like. ● the timeline jump around is a bit confusing… ● is this Bruce, Dick, and Tim traveling by ship? ● Robin regains consciousness in Joker’s car. he’s tied up with Christmas lights and gagged with an ornament ● Joker’s eyes are kindly again. says he’s calling a truce due to “Christmas spirit” ● yikes, we can just see the top of someone’s head in the backseat. not good, when Robin was thinking about the smell of something rotting moments ago…

● jeez. I guess we know why this issue is called “Slayride”! ● “Kid’s race car… they have a little boy… focus!” little girls can like race cars, too, Robin… ● so, Joker’s a karen. who knew.

● I don’t think I’ve ever seen Tim so angry… ● throughout this issue, the light source on Robin and Joker is ambient light from the car’s instrument panel and maybe backglow from the headlights. it creates a really nice effect in how they light and shadow the characters’ faces applauds artists ● whew, Tim manages to make Joker laugh with a bad joke, and Joker seems to change his mind at the last second about running over kids with Santa Claus on the sidewalk ● “Very good! A Marx Brothers quote.” - ah, a bit from the flashback/dream Robin had while unconscious ● Robin’s loose! ● 👏👏👏👏👏

Synopsis: Robin is escaping a gang of drug dealers when the driver of a passing car offers him a ride. He jumps inside and sees too late that the driver is the Joker. The Joker uses a gas to knock him out.

Robin wakes up, bound with Christmas lights. There are two dead bodies in the backseat. The Joker runs over multiple pedestrians as he drives and calls in the hit-and-runs. He takes Robin for milkshakes, and when the employee can't understand his order, he shoots the manager.

The Joker threatens to kill more people unless Robin begs. Robin knows begging won't stop him and quotes the Marx Brothers instead, which makes the Joker laugh. He spares the people. Robin gets the Joker to argue with him about the Marx Brothers, and while the Joker is distracted, he frees himself and punches the Joker in the face.

He gets hold of the knockout gas, spraying it in the Joker's face, and then pushes him out of the car. The Joker is run over by a trunk, but when Batman and the police search for his body, he's gone.

(https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_826)

Fan Art: Robin Poster by pinkhavok

Accompanying Podcast: ● Robin: Everyone Loves the Drake - episode 20

Happy Holidays, you crazy bastards

[scotianostra]

On January 13th 1958 serial killer, Peter Manuel, was arrested for spree of attacks that left 9 people dead.

Peter Manuel was the second of three children to be born to Samuel and Bridget Manuel. Surprisingly, he was born in the Misere Cordia Hosptial in Manhattan, New York on 15 March 1927. His parents had emigrated to America to seek a better life during the Depression of the 1920’s. They tried to settle in Detroit, Michigan, with Samuel working in a car factory and Bridget working as a domestic servant, but Samuel became ill and poverty drove them back to Scotland in 1932. They were unsettled on their return and moved from Motherwell to Coventry in 1937. Peter was ten years of age and had an American accent. He did not settle into English school life.

Peter’s first brush with the law was in 1938 when he broke into a chapel and stole the offertory box. He was never out of trouble over the next few years and was a regular inmate of the borstals and approved schools. When he was 15 he committed his first act of violence when he attacked a sleeping woman with a hammer during one of his housebreaking ventures. For this he went to Leeds Prison. About this time his parents moved back to Lanarkshire after they lost their home to the bombing of Coventry, and Peter followed after he was released from borstal.

On 16th February 1946, Peter Manuel broke into a bungalow in the Sandyhills area of Lanarkshire. Detective Constable William Muncie (later ACC in Strathclyde Police) and a local sergeant searched the house and found a bedroom in the loft. Having satisfied themselves it was empty, they gathered the productions together and took them away for fingerprint examination.

Later that day, realising he had forgotten a cup in the kitchen of the house that appeared to have a fingerprint on it, D.C. Muncie returned to the house in time to see Manuel emerge from the garden. He apprehended him. He established that Manuel had been living in the house and had hidden behind wood panelling in the loft when the house was searched. While on bail for this offence, he committed three assaults on women, including a rape on an expectant mother. He got eight years imprisonment in Peterhead Prison and also won the praise of the judge for the skill with which he conducted his own defence! He was released in the summer of 1953, aged 26.

The afternoon of Wednesday 4 January 1956, was to mark the beginning of one of the largest police investigations Scotland has ever seen which would last for exactly two years. It was a cold, dry afternoon and George Gribbon was taking a walk on a golf course in East Kilbride when he found the body of a young woman in a wooded area known as Capelrig Copse. Sickened by the sight, Gribbon ran towards the road and saw some Gas Board engineers. His frantic description was taken as a joke by the workers and he ran off towards Calderglen Farm, from where he called the police.

The first officers at the scene found that the dead woman’s head had been smashed in. They also saw the marks of running feet in the mud which indicated that the woman had run for her life for over 400 yards. She had also been indecently assaulted.

The woman was identified as Anne Kneilands, a 17 year old who had lived with her parents on the Calderwood Estate. She had gone dancing during the Hogmanay holiday on 2 January but had not returned. Her parents, thinking she was staying at a friend’s home, did not report her missing until the morning of 4 January.

[clay-cuttlefish]

Back to this. I got sidetracked jumping around the spreadsheet and adding some random stuff, but hopefully I should hit the first Renee appearances tomorrow. I also have to track down a version of Death in the Family that has the foreword - it's by Tot and mentions Vic, and was mentioned in the letter column for 28, so it should fit somewhere in this chunk of issues on the spreadsheet.

Question #18

Here he is! I love Ollie and Vic's dynamic. They are so fascinating and so annoying.

You know you've fucked up when Ollie's calling you a dumbass.

I like how much breathing room this issue has. They get a lot of space to talk and highlight each other, which is a great foundation for the later GA crossovers.

Of the unsubtle 80s anti-gun GA stuff I've read (which isn't a lot but it's more than 0) this is one of the less interesting bits. At least it's short.

The panel composition on this issue is really well done. Making two guys talking in a truck into a pair of pages that make me pause to take them in is impressive.

#19

Vic choosing to get the doll fixed is a really strong moment.

Overall, the way Augie is treated is surprisingly good? It's definitely played for creepiness at first, but he's just a guy living a surprisingly decent life for Hub City, Vic tries to actually help him and doesn't judge him for being delusional, and he ends up totally fine.

The parallel between Vic's mask and Myra's makeup, and her choice to discard it, is just. Waugh. She's just as dedicated to trying to figure out the right thing as he is, but she's not hiding any of it!

Myra kissing Maurice is still a very weird moment.

Detective Comics - Fables part 1

Spectacularly terrible opening, 0/10.

It's so weird to see the Penguin after this long of a stretch without supervillains. Yeah Talia shows up first but she's way less gimmicky and the page is pretty calm. He's here in full force with the monocle and bird jokes.

Shiva <333

I don't believe for a fucking second that asking Vic is the best way Shiva can think of to find Batman. I really like it, don't get me wrong. Vic's hacker exposition about making a post on the internet is hilarious, calling Batman Pointy-Ears is hilarious, "Matins" is such a Catholicism Moment, it's good stuff. I just think this is way less likely to work than going to Gotham and punching cops until Batman shows up.

Oh my god this is such a stupid villain plot. What do you mean it doesn't affect people with high testosterone. What do you mean Bruce already knows what it is. Why does Ra's have that. Why would that be the effect you choose for this story.

I'm sure this Bruce and Talia plot is better when read in context but it's still some excellent drama. Love them.

...gender?

Green Arrow - Fables part 2

The overarching plot of Fables isn't good, the O-Sensei is a boring Orientalist stereotype, but all of the subplots are very strong examples of why I care about each series. Scrap the whole O-Sensei thing in the first two issues and just have it be Shiva picking fights and finding people to help someone she knows and it'd be better.

Dinahollie <3

I love getting to see Shiva doing her thing. She's so chill, it's fun to see her in her element :)

Dinahshiva <3

Shiva loves to put some weird little freak in a situation and see if it makes them better or worse, and it sucks she doesn't get to do that anymore.

Question - Fables part 3

All of these issues have great looks for Shiva. Style icon.

Hey, Vic's terrible secret identity came back to bite him!

"Van der Waal's equation" isn't complete technobabble - the Van der Waal's force is a decent explanation for a multi-use adhesive, at least by comic book standards, and would explain why the mask never seems "sticky" and why the chemistry on getting it to stay is so finicky.

It's interesting that Vic doesn't even try to get Shiva to not kill people. He might be self-sacrificing, but he's not that dumb.

Oh my god Bruce you are such a dramatic bitch.

I kinda see what they were going for with the O-Sensei here, at least. Still think it'd be better if he wasn't a ridiculous legendary fighter.

Drowning motif! Shiva's perspective is so interesting - she's able to do anything she puts the effort into, and she expects that to be true of everyone else.

#20

The cover layout is unique this issue, which is a neat touch.

I always like that characters get to say stuff that's sort of dumb. Vic no-selling Myra's joke about boomerang rocks is a nice reminder that they do really like and feel comfortable around each other, even when things are rough.

Honestly not a ton to say about this issue. It makes its point well, I like it.

In the letter pages: the return of Hair Discourse.

#21

This plotline's back!

He just like me fr (misreading signals on a date, resisting the urge to deck his high school classmates)

Seriously though, it's nice to get a look into Vic's very normal problems. Not everything wrong with him is related to being the Question.

This is one of my favourite single issues. I can't quite put words on why - everything about it just works, and there's nothing about it that I want to pick at.

#22

Election Day is the best arc in the run.

The opening spread is full of excellent expressions - Wesley's really lean into the more distorted and exaggerated end of Cowan's art, while Myra's are all subtle, exhausted frustration. I appreciate that she's consistently drawn with sunken cheeks and eye bags.

Maurice getting to be serious is a strong moment. He's been a good source of banter for Myra before this, so having him get invested and take the consequences seriously is a good way to ground the stakes, and to give Myra someone who's genuinely on her side without having to rely on Vic.

It's interesting that Shiva pays close enough attention to what Vic's up to on a regular basis that she'd know who to send. Even when she's not around, she still gets to drive the story.

#23

This issue got me the first time I read it. The history flashback is a weird choice, but it sets the tone perfectly, and the time constantly being shown is a throwback to the first issue that makes it feel super tense. So much of the series has long time skips, waiting to heal or get phone calls or for anything to happen, but now every minute counts. The news reports punctuating it work so well.

Vic dropping everything when he reads Tot's name is so...

Myra goes off, and she damn well deserves it. The difference in how her expressions feel between this and the opening of #22 is a testament to Cowan's work.

The quoting of a line from five pages ago is maybe a little unnecessary. These panels would stand perfectly well on their own.

#24

It's hard to make a deus ex machina feel "earned", but if anything does, it's this.

Kind of a dumb thing but who tells this story with a beaver? I'm not losing it, right, it's the Scorpion and the Frog?

The historical flashback turning out in Myra's favor is a fantastic bit of subversion. When I first read this, I was certain that Wesley was going to shoot Myra during the blackout, and Dinsmore dying and Myra talking about how bad winning felt made me lower my guard and think he might kill himself publicly instead. Funny how that works.

I didn't catch what he meant until the next issue on my first read (in my defence, I'm not American) but wow Wesley's not subtle about his assassination plans to anyone. I mean, I caught that much, but he's really not subtle.

Myra and Vic's relationship makes me want to explode. I just want them to be happy together! Aaaaa!

#25

Everything happens so much. The pace just does not let up.

Vic falls into bad habits, again, but he does a better job staying focused and not letting the anger take over - it's good development.

Wesley's death is everything the shitty racist cop issue fails to be. He's a sad, awful little man with a broken moral compass and a lot of enablers, and he dies refusing to recognize it.

The letters column: a woman wrote in a while back about how male comic fans are creeps and Vic still has some personal growth to do when it comes to being less sexist, and some men are being freaks about it. These fuckers haven't changed in thirty years.

#26

If I ignore the part of my brain that hates this as a Riddler story and pretend he's an OC, it's a fine breather issue. Unfortunately I am bad at doing that.

Some very caricature-y guest art this issue. It's a neat look in some panels, and sometimes it's more subtle, but a lot of it is scrungled enough that I can't take what's happening seriously.

this is Vic and Tot in the car, to me

Love that Tot takes stopping Vic from self-destructing into his own hands, and that Vic bitches but doesn't do anything stupid to try and stop him.

The idea of Vic chewing out the Riddler with more difficult questions is an interesting idea, but I don't love the effect of him monologuing about a bunch of pretty standard ~deep~ questions and well known koans, and the Riddler just going "yeah i'm afraid of those" is dumb.

I dunno - it feels like a bit of a waste for the one time Vic faces an established villain to be so meh. I like Sphinx, at least, and the reappearance of the drowning motif is cool.

#27

The weirdest issue, I think.

I really like all the Vic sections, and I'm not opposed to meta shit, but this is pretty jarring. Tot's weird cousin and his racist magic is not helping the tone of the Ditko callback.

I like that Tot has a weird cousin who was a bad comic artist. He has connections outside of Vic, they're just also weird as hell.

The Ditko callback is great. "You gotta pull me up." "Why?", and then the slow drop before Vic grabs him? Mwah. Perfect. I'm a sucker for this shit. Even when he's falling into bad habits, he's still a better person than he used to be!

#28

Shiva :)

Vic responding to Tot telling him not to lie to himself by suddenly gaining sunglasses kills the mood a bit, but it's also very good. What is wrong with him.

Myra wakes up from a coma, ditches the hospital, and immediately makes a very risky plan. Good for her.

Everyone's in top form this issue, it's great.