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“Sweetie, I’ll make soup with your knickers!” Random gang-banger, Andrea D #1.

What a beautiful pick up line! Here we are, with the dissections for the last week of January, comics released on 01/30. However, I must again deliver the sad news of somebody’s death, even if it’s a bit late, of the demise Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, and therefore, roleplaying games as such. He will be sorely missed; you can find the news here, and my tributes here, and here. Yes, he wasn’t a comic book creator, but he was a very influential man to me and many, and I needed to mention it.
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“Standing around talking feels a lot like standing around talking. When does Pete get to throw me at something?” Wolverine, summing up the “joys” of decompression, Astonishing X-Men V3 #24.

I have to start this column with a retraction; as Namor’s appearance in the Order’s issue for the week of 01/23 (week dissected in this column) shows that his involvement in this book is not a continuity goof. I won’t go to the trouble of recalculating average for that column months ago, and I won’t modify it, as too long has passed. But I do admit my mistakes, don’t say I don’t. Incidentally, last column’s Dissect This! was found by Sully, and it was that there’s no checkers board in the first panel, so here’s your Badge, and welcome Ensign Sully to the HDSC!
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“I’m Donna Troy, bitch.” New Earth Donna Troy to (I suppose) Earth-3 Donna Troy, Countdown To Final Crisis #15.

Welcome to yet another Dissector column, for the comics published on 01/16. Last week’s Dissect This! was correctly guessed by Snakebyte over at the ICS.net forums, saying that Doc Samson’s hair length is related to his strength, so it would be stupid of him to leave his hair short. A discussion ensued, and I while recognize that this is not the first time Doc is seen with shorter hair after WWH, until it is said, either on panel, or by somebody at Marvel that his strength level no longer depends on the length of his hair, I will consider this a dissection. Snakebyte, take a badge!
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“Come on, everybody! There’s got to be an abandoned playing card factory around here somewhere.” Joker leading his half of the prisoners of the penal planet, Salvation Run #3 of 8.

Still on the catch up, this is the column for the books published on 01/09… I’m still more than one month behind… I must start the column with a short remembrance for French penciller and colorist Stephane Peru, who passed away… he was only 27 years old. He deserved more time to make his mark…. but he was apparently as good a person as he was an artist (and he was pretty damn good).
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“Of course. More ninjas.” Batman about Ra’s al Ghul’s minions, Detective Comics #840.

Alright, so the longest catch-up in the history of this column continues, and here are the dissections from the week of 01-04! It’s short, both in amount of dissections and in the length of the write-ups, because there wasn’t really much to write about. In fact, with a total of twelve dissections for the column (the closest ever to the ten dissection minimum I require before resorting to my vaults), I didn’t even want to not write up a few of the dissections I had. Last column’s Dissect This! was not solved by anyone (a lot of my readers are missing… MKF? Roy? guys??!?!), but I’ll reveal it anyway: John Stewart’s costume was incorrect; he was drawn and colored as having full green gloves, when he actually has some sort of bracelet thingies… I should have credited that issue’s colorist too, because he could have fixed Freddie William’s mistake.
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The Dissector is back in gear, and here are the dissections for the last week of December! Spell character names correctly, get your costumes right, and for the love of Gawd, don’t mess with his “Ñ”s!!!
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Writer Steve Gerber, a comic book legend passes away. He will be fondly remembered, and sorely missed.
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A new publisher’s flagship title. A comic book legend in the art chores, and a story that combines Silver Age and pulp fiction elements. Is The Danger’s Dozen worth the risk?
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NOTE: Yes, I’ve been gone for almost a month, I know. Sorry about that, here’s the ceremony for the 2005-2007 Autopsy Awards, I should be back next week with the begining of my catch-up columns for the past month.

A glamorous award ceremony, with a celebrity host, and even more celebrity presenters including Chuck Norris, Adam West and Johnny Five. Also, non-celebrity presenters, and the musical performances of Dazzler, The Village People, and more (but not much more)!
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“Dammit Cindy! I can’t fight foreign invaders in a Steely Dan T-shirt!” Max Keane, The Programme #06.

Weeeeelcoooome to the last column of the year! I hope this was a good year for you all, and if it wasn’t, I hope next year’s better. Straight into this week’s content, last column’s Dissect This! was busted by Miss Kitty Fantastico, who correctly pointed out that Salakk’s name was misspelled as “Salaak”. Badge for you, MKF! This is the last week to vote for the Autopsy Awards, by the way, so if you haven’t voted, check out the nominees and e-mail your votes here.
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“HHAAAAHH!! MAKES BALLS REVOLVE LIKE SPINNING DERVISHES…!” Vas, aka “Love Sausage”, former Soviet superhero, after taking a drink of his homebrewn booze, which, appropriately, has a skull and crossbones for label.

Well, sort of time this week, and let’s dive straight into this. Both Dominik B.and Miss Kitty Fantastico made the Dissect This! from last column, and it was of course the fact that the Wasp had wings at normal size; when she only has wings while shrunk. Badge for both of them! Rock-Me Amodeo added that 616 Wasp has experimented with retaining her wings as she grows back to full size, getting to keep them at some 54 inches tall, and also, her powers might work differently in the Ultimate universe, being a mutant, she could have also had a progression of her powers or a secondary mutation. That’s why it had a relatively low rating.
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The Atom and the Amazon, lobsters, giant lizards, The Ultimates V3 (at long last!), tiny chairs, Batmen, surfing Kryptonians, and yes, what you’ve all been expecting: Granny Goodness and her rod.
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“Rex, is that beryllium in your pants or are you just happy to see me?” Grace Choi, Batman And The Outsiders V2.

Kind of late again, but are you gonna do? Oh, you’re going to complain? Ah, well, then next time I’ll try to have the column on time. No autopsy awards results, because I want more votes, there’s a few ties. If I don’t get votes enough to break the ties, I’ll make my votes count double. What’s happening several of my readers haven’t voted, and some haven’t even commented at all in the past weeks… Have I let you down, o faithful readers? Please head over to the nominees, then vote by sending an e-mail to lordmagnusen at gmail.com.

Last week’s Dissect This was aptly spotted by Roy, of whom I expected no less, since this was a Teen Titans-related thing. Robin’s gloves were lacking the scalloped blades they now have, like Batman’s. Badge for Roy, who’s one condecoration away from becoming a Lieuetnant in the HDSC!
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“A bazillion bucks in C.G.I. and he still looks like Shrek.” Anonymous moviegoer about a Hulk movie, She-Hulk V2 #23. I knew I wasn’t alone.

Yes, I’m late, I know it. Let’s get this show started, then. That quote up there is exactly what I think about the Hulk movie by Ang Lee… thank Stan another one is coming. Welcome to the 50th column! Last week we had a creator sighting, as Scott Wegener, talented artist for Atomic Robo admits to certain Mignola similarities, all in good humor, in the comments section of the last column (in the blog).
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“They’re giant insects. Of course they have eye-beams.” Tesladyne field operative, Atomic Robo #02.

What’s going on? Why am I not getting more votes for the Autopsy Awards? This is outrageous! Get your lazy asses over to your e-mails and send those votes (see last column, the third Special for the nominees) to lordmagnusen at gmail.com! Still up to date, here’s the column on last week’s comics, but let me tell you first that NOBODY found the Dissect This! from last week! The problem was that Donna Troy’s boots did not have heels people… I know it’s not Mary Marvel, but still…

Before moving on to the picks, you’ll see something new in the Dissections. Each book title now has the publisher’s name next to it, in parenthesis. Why? Because I had to go over almost 50 columns to see which company had the most dissections; and even though the figures are accurate as to how they relate to each other, they’re still only approximated… and I want to have an easier time counting them for next years Autopsy Awards. Same thing with the authors, I’m going to start counting their dissections after finishing each column, to save myself the trouble next time.
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