The All-New Atom #21: A Medical (Biology/Chemistry) Review
The All-New Atom #21 “Inside Out”
Rick Remender, writer
Pat Olliffe, penciler
Ryan (the “all-new Atom”) wants to see what’s going on inside his body, so he plans on shrinking to a microscopic size and entering one of his white corpuscles (white blood cell).
Ryan: Stage One: Diminution-mapping engine directs me into a corpuscle near the exterior of its nucleus.
Stage Two: By ratcheting the bangstick to super speed, I should be able to exponentially multiply size reduction, thus squeezing between the negatively charged electron cloud surrounding the exterior of the nucleus.
I think Ryan is confusing the nucleus of a cell (in this case a white blood cell), and the nucleus of an atom. Same word, two very different situations.
A corpuscle’s nucleus is surrounded a specialized membrane called the nuclear envelope. An electron cloud surrounds an atomic nucleus.
(OK, technically, what Ryan is saying could be construed as correct in that the cell membrane is made up of millions of atoms which each have their own electron cloud, but I don’t think that’s what he meant.)
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| A Cell Nucleus | An Atomic Nucleus and Electron Cloud |
April 7th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Remender’s writing makes Baby Neils Bohr cry.
It would be forgivable, if he weren’t even more clueless about plot, pacing, characterization, and clarity.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
nice to see you tackling the technobably in the all new atom. keep it up.
also i was just thinking are there any comics or writers that get their science right?
April 8th, 2008 at 3:39 am
Wait a second. I’m confuzzled. He was going to shrink himself and enter one of his *own* white corpuscles? Doesn’t that lead to an infinite recursion paradox?
April 8th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Rabrab, he’d taken a sample of his blood and was shrinking down into that.
Yeah, I haven’t been thrilled with the new writer much either.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Oh.
Rats.
An infinite recursion paradox could have been a fun storyline…
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