Polite Dissent

Technobabble of the Day

May 4th, 2005

Filed under: Comics, Medicine

from Captain American and the Falcon #12
Written by Priest, art by Greg Tochhini and Oclair Albert

And sadly, those are all real words too (well, except M.O.D.O.K.).

David Fiore
May 4th, 2005 at 11:08 pm

I firmly believe that–one fine day!–M.O.D.O.K. will make it into the dictionaries, as he (it?) has already infiltrated each of our hearts!
Aine
May 5th, 2005 at 12:59 pm

Woah there pardner… someone read up on their biology. Nice to see bacteriophages getting a mention in popular culture though, and you can never have too many endonucleases IMHO. Hey, at least someone tried this time. Unlike other examples posted on this blog.
Scott
May 5th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
Official Comment

The terms are great (”bacteriophages” and “restriction endonucleases” bring back memories of my long days in lab), it’s the way they’re strung together so that they almost — but not quite — makes sense. You’re right though, it is better than most attempts.
Aine
May 6th, 2005 at 5:52 am

Yea, cuz we all know what the alternative was: “when I realised that the virus was having opposite effects on Bizaro I deduced his inverse metabolism would produce antibodies capable of combating the virus when my own coudln’t”. No matter how long you stare at it, it just sounds stupid.