Mystery liquid in a phial, strapping a young anorexic lad down on an examining table and a room full of scientist looking to make a super solder. Tip, inject and crash the palace and the world is given Captain America, Steven Rogers, Sentinel of Liberty and walking symbol of freedom and justice as well as a nifty right hook for those Nazi nasties.

Careful on picking up any funny or strange looking liquid and drinking it, results may vary wildly. Coloured especially.

Blue - looks like people in white lab coats have been around playing with tampons or pads and are still busy seeing how blue turns red.

Yellow - no explanation is needed, certainly not for anyone who has ever been into the smallest room of the house. Or for some, the blue cubicle on the lot. Or for those quaint and dandy, the outhouse so far away from the house in the dark of night.

Pinkish or red - otherwise known as crazy jump juice. To those selling them, it's simply red cordial. Hopefully it's just that and nothing more.

Orange - seems like some body might be taking a lot of vitamins or eating heavy on the beetroot.

Black - put it down, don't think about even drinking this. Might be oil. In which case, head on over to eBay and flog it for all the postage and handling it's not really worth.

 

Christmas time and it's the season of summer in Australia. A period where the many find comfort in walking aimlessly in the freezers everyone knows as shopping centres. They may sweat out and lose three kilos in the trek from their homes to the multi-level car parking facilities, but make no mistake. The winner is clearly the festive fun.

The loser is the water weight conscious. They who judge their lives on the bathrooms scales. The ones who see how much the bag of dates helped them lose. How far closer to rails they are now with the dodgy food court tastings. The ones who may take to drinking up to water load in times of competition weighing machines.

Care needs to be taken in which liquids go into the temple that is the body in times of staving off dehydration. Simple plain tap water will suffice. Recycled water even. Flat soda water isn't too bad. But stay away from the variety made of hops and barely or potatoes. Stuff which will take the eyes and swim them through what may very well seem like an endless bath of chlorine.

Which also is not a good thing to ingest on any basis, no matter the occasion.

 

Under the monster riff of The Trooper by the almighty Iron Maiden, a tale of the Crimean War. A battle raged between the Russians and the Ottoman Empire.

Bleak and from the vision of a slain soldier, the song is partially based on The Charge of the Light Brigade. A poem by the long dead Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Never mind of course the fact that the Trooper himself looks like the sight of death. Wrinkles and the skin folding over itself like the battle weary effect it can hold.

Much like the inability of performance artist David Blaine to hold his breath for nine brain damaging minutes. After a week long stunt being Drowned Alive in a water bubble, Blaine emerged all wrinkly and unable to top off the spectacle.

And wrinkles? Far more than just falling asleep in the bath.

 

Not enough for the one they call Logan to run around with no past to suffer only one telling of his origins. Running around with a mighty big sword jutting from his belt, Wolverine pops up in yet another comic. And this time it's another ongoing...

Spinning directly out of the "Origins and Endings" story arc currently concluding in Wolverine comes an all-new Wolverine monthly title - Wolverine: Origins.

After regaining all of his memories in the aftermath of House of M, Wolverine’s quest for more answers has already led to confrontation with the Silver Samurai and the revelation that the Winter Soldier killed his wife and unborn child. But that doesn't even come close to the revelations about Wolverine’s past that writer Daniel Way has planned in Wolverine: Origins.

What may come to be the one of the most important aspects of Wolverine’s past is a certain object revealed at the end of "Origins and Endings." It may be the one thing that Logan truly has a reason to fear, so be sure to pick up Wolverine: Origins #1 to learn the previously untold history of Wolverine and why Logan may not have much of a future to look forward to.

Feral man can move!

Marvel continue waving the cosmic as Annihilation: Nova deals with the aftermath of the attack on Xandar. That or the forces of the Annihilation Wave are bearing down faster than cold sweat off the forehead and Nova's stuck in the middle with you.

Long in the tooth and long in the follow up, the dead fangy type return on the beaches of Miami in Bite Club Vampire Crime Unit from Vertigo through DC.

One of Marvel's youngest crew team up with one of the more crustier Avengers. It's a tale for all the ages as Avengers and Power Pack Assemble!

DC shows up with Man-Bat on their side. The savage mirror image of the Dark Knight is breaking out of his skin and there are goons out to flex this to their advantage. Reminded of that other half of the Superman/Batman bookend set with the detecting one wailing on the bipedal and winged wildlife.

For those just on the outside, Ex Machina Special from Wildstorm takes a sidestep and look back at the origins the Great Machine's archenemy.

One of the few that isn't one of the big red or blue, Spawn #1 in 3D from Image Comics. Red and blue glasses included. So you can go about like that Casey Siemaszko.

 

 

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