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With our 2000 AD story, '15′, ending in 2000 AD prog 1799 today, I thought I'd share a few images from the making of Jon Davis-Hunt's cover to Prog 1798, which featured our story.
The full making of can be seen right here http://2000adcovers.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/jon-davis-hunt-invasion-of-gabber-robots.html
Here's how a sketch became a multi-toothed, multi-tentacled, robotic-death-match.
It's going to be a huge month. 15 ending today, the Rocketeer Adventures hardcover out next week, and Darth Maul: Death Sentence #3 out later in the month along with the Rose and Thorn one-shot.
On top of the comics coming out, I've just handed in a full graphic novel script for Gestalt Publishing, two scripts for IDW, and I've begun a very large project for DC.
Busy. Busy. Busy.

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How to live well in the Kingdom of God
Hebrews 13.1-3
Hebrews 13 is a familiar end-of-letter exhortation to its audience, to live the life fully into which we have been invited by our Saviour Christ. When I preached on this in Crowmarsh Gifford in August 2006, I prepared a sermon on verses 1-3 as a manifesto for three kinds of love: mutual love, stranger-love, and love for the marginalized.
MUTUAL LOVE: Let mutual love continue - Ἡ φιλαδελφία μενέτω. This love is 'brotherly love' in the Greek, and the NRSV doesn't preserve the force of the word. Love the family, love as sisters and brothers, love as those to whom you belong, certainly. More importantly, love with the full knowledge of the frailty and idiosyncrasies of those who are so close to you that you know them warts and all. It's unconditional love, but it's not careless love. It cares deeply that those we love are fractured, but it does not make love dependent on change. It is patient love, love for the addict who can't find a way out; love for the sister who has wounded your life by a chance remark; love for the brother who doesn't know how to treat you with respect. It's redeeming love, because it frees those whom we love from the compulsion to prove themselves to us.
STRANGER-LOVE: Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers – The word used for hospitality - φιλοξενία – may be literally translated as love of strangers or of those who are strange. The love theme continues! There is a further reminder that love for others doubles up as love for God, and that one without the other is the absurdity shown clearly in 1 John 4. Hospitality offered to humans may be hospitality offered to God, and there are echoes for me of Abraham's experience in Genesis 18. Perhaps there is a supernatural dimension to all hospitality? We find the unseen guest Christ makes himself known in the breaking of bread when we make space at the table for strangers. Eucharistic strangers make the Eucharist a sacramental miracle, and Christ presents himself in them too. Might they, in a strange way, be some of the broken bread?
LOVE FOR THOSE ON THE MARGINS: Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured [μιμνῄσκεσθε τῶν δεσμίων ὡς συνδεδεμένοι] – the writer moves rapidly into more uncomfortable territory. We've been asked to make space at the table for those who formally don't belong. Now we're asked to go into inhospitable places, and make ourselves at home there, to be 'in the flesh' with them, as the text actually says. This is the core meaning of 'compassion', which takes us beyond empathy to participation, one of the ways of understanding what Christ means when he invites us to take up our cross. In a comfortable, warm and fuzzy church setting with glorious music and rich resources, it's a challenge to remain uncomfortable and edgy ourselves.


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Trawling the depths of forgotten fiction, films, and beyond, with yer pal, Joe Kenney
Monday, June 9, 2014
The Mind Brothers
The Mind Brothers, by Peter Heath
No month stated, 1967 Lancer Books
A strange product of the Swinging Sixties Spy genre, The Mind Brothers was the start of a three-volume series, churned out by Peter Heath* between 1967 and 1968. What sets this particular series apart is that it veers into science fiction, with a superhuman from fifty thousand years in the future(!) who travels back in time to the 1960s to help fight Communism!
Jason Starr is our hero, a young computer programmer who worked for the RAND coproration before being contracted by the Air Force to work on a psyops warfare project in Vietnam. This kind of cred would normally make for a villain, but Jason's a good guy who just wants to end the war. Experiments on lab rats prove that his psyops work, as the rats run in fear whenever the gear is turned on. So the equipment is hooked up to the bottom of a military aircraft and Jason rides along to oversee a field test.
Instead the plane's shot out of the sky, ambushed by a Chinese patrol which apparently was lying in wait, as if the Chinese knew the plane would be coming by. Jason Starr dies in the ensuing crash, but here begins the sci-fi angle. A portal appears in the air and pulls his corpse into the far-flung future, where it is cloned and reconstituted. Jason is sent back to the '60s, where his unharmed but unconscious body is discovered by the puzzled crash investigators. He wakes up in the Navy hospital in Pearl Harbor, with no memory of having died nor of having visited the future.
Jason learns he's been framed; researchers discovered that the equipment on the undercarriage of the downed plane was useless junk, with no affect on anything. Now Jason is discredited, with the implication that he swindled the government. He's returned to civilian life, but many doors are now closed to him. Then one night he's visited by a strange figure who looks much like Jason himself, only with no hair and sort of superhuman features – this is Adam Cyber, from 50,000 years in the future, the last surviving human, and the man who saved, rebuilt, and cloned Jason.
In a weird flash-forward we see that computers became so powerful that eventually humans turned the entire Earth over to them, leaving the planet to colonize other worlds. Adam Cyber chose to stay behind, and was dissolved into a sort of fluid state (exactly like the protagonist of Another End) for several thousand years; when reconstituted into human form, he discovered that the computers had recreated the planet down to the smallest microbe. Even the grass was robotic. A crying Adam Cyber realized mankind had taken a wrong path, and decided to go back in time to prevent this future.
Through some reasoning that Heath doesn't really explain, Adam decided upon the late 1960s, and as a host Jason Starr, claiming Jason was a scientific genius on par with the greats. Since he'd need a body of the era to travel back in time to inhabit, Adam transported Jason's body forward in the future so as to recreate a copy for himself. Or something! Now Adam Cyber (his last name chosen from a book on cybernetics, and the "Adam" of course for being the first man of that future world) is Jason Starr's "Mind Brother," here in the late 20th Century to ensure hummanity doesn't make the mistakes that caused his world to become a reality.
As if all this wasn't enough, Jason also discovers he was set up – the Chinese patrol that ambushed him in 'Nam no doubt stole away his psyops equipment, replacing it with junk, but was also tipped off by someone where the plane would be in the first place. It's payback time! Jason and Adam sneak into CIA headquarters in Virginia and Adam puts a bug in the CIA's main computer (one of the old, wall-spanning types), blackmailing the CIA into helping them; Jason and Adam will repair the computer if the Agency will give them its support in finding the culprits behind the psyops theft. This leads them to Bombay, India, but not before Jason picks up a pretty gal named Maria and takes her back to his hotel for a little vaguely-described sex.
While sitting on the tarmac in an Arabian country during a layover, Jason spots some dude plant a bomb on his plane. Yet for unstated reasons he waits until the plane is in midair to inform the captain there's a bomb stowed somewhere aboard. An incredibly unbelievable sequence follows in which Jason and the pilots unscrew the floor panelling, get into the luggage compartment, and find the bomb with minutes to spare, Jason having deduced that the bomb would be set to blow within an hour or two after takeoff. He ends up tossing the bomb overboard and the plane continues at a low altitude to avoid decompression. The sequence was also unintentionally eerie, given the recent MH370 mystery, Jason's plane even flying over the Indian Ocean.
In Bombay, Jason again nearly gets killed, this time by a taxi driver who tries to set him up. A weird chase ensues, with Jason running through the refuse-festooned streets of Bombay, including an unsettingly-bizarre bit where he thinks he steps on "the belly of a dead woman." After this he reconnects with Adam Cyber, who's chilling at the Punjabi Hotel, and the reader can't help but wonder how he got there. I mean, did he teleport? Why didn't he fly there with Jason? It's not explained. Once the "brothers" get hold of Mr. Chatterji, aka the taxi driver who set up Jason, they discover that "The Brotherhood" is behind all of this nonsense. It all appears to be a plot by wily Chinese scientist Dr. Lau and Otto Krupt, a former Nazi.
The final quarter of the novel comes off like a proto John Eagle Expeditor, with Jason and a team of Sherpas navigating through the icy dangers of Tibet. Here in appropriate pulp style Dr. Lau has a hidden fortress, from which he's perfecting the psyops gear he stole from Jason. The pulp stuff is really piled on here, with even cells filled with creatures, locals who have been mutated by Lau in various experiments. Heath writes the action with tongue in cheek; it's not outright comedy, but it toes the line, as Jason blows away various stooges and Heath documents it all in deadpan style.
Heath takes us into the homestretch with the revelation of who was behind the plot to frame Jason, and former friends turn out to be enemies. By novel's end, Jason has regained his professional stature, and he figures Adam will soon return to the future, now that this current business has been dealt with. However Adam reveals that he's stuck here in the past, which of course sets the stage for ensuing volumes. Lancer doesn't mention this is the start of a series, though.
Anyway I enjoyed The Mind Brothers enough that I'll eventually check out the second volume, if for no other reason than I happen to already have it.
*Some sources state that Peter Heath was the pseudonym of an author named Robert Irvine. However according to Hawk's Authors' Pseudonyms III (1999), Peter Heath was the pseudonym of an author named Peter Heath Fine, who was born in 1935 and only had the three Mind Brothers novels to his credit. According to this site he died in 1975, at the young age of 40.
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See the entry below for the start of the climbing story. Here are Chris and I at the top of Insubong about to head down.
Here's Chris setting up the 150 foot rappel off the side. We made it safely down but the rappel was by far NOT my favorite part of the climb. Sketchy.
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I called a baseline shot "out" loudly at the same time as I returned it. My shot went in, but my opponent had stopped playing. I realized his shot had hit my baseline and reversed my call. I wanted to play a let since he had stopped play after my "out" call. Was I right?—Mark Jones, Champaign, IL
Not anymore. Up until the USTA approved a rule change in September 2010, a let would have resulted from the situation you described. But now The Code, Item 12, says that "a player who calls a ball out shall reverse the call if the player becomes uncertain or realizes that the ball was good. The point goes to the opponent and is not replayed."
Except where noted, answers are based on the ITF Rules of Tennis and USTA's The Code.
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Letterkenny woman leads new iBooks design team
A Letterkenny woman was a leader of the design team behind a new Apple iBook resource for science teachers and secondary school students.
"We were trying to develop resources for free that teachers would be able to use in the classroom," said Dr. Veronica McCauley, science education lecturer at the National University of Ireland Galway School of Education. She and fellow lecturer Seán Ó Grádaigh led the project design team of student science teachers in the creation of the Sci-Hook series.
The series features a series of more than 30 short video clips designed to grab Junior Certificate students' attention at the start of each new science topic. "We thought, 'What fun thing can we do at the beginning of class?' and then, 'Let's video ourselves doing it,'" Veronica explained.
For example, in a segment on vitamins and minerals, the teachers sought to find out how much iron there is in a bowl of cornflakes. Turns out, a very strong magnet will attract cornflakes to it. A data sheet that explains the science in the demonstration accompanies each video.
The team created a set of three iBooks in physics, biology and chemistry, and the books are available for free online at the iBookstore. The resources, which are translated into Irish, are also available for free at the bilingual web site, www.sciencehooks.scoilnet.ie.
Originally from Letterkenny, Veronica attended secondary school at Loreto Letterkenny, and trained as a science teacher at the University of Limerick, where she also earned her PhD in science education. Veronica worked as a postdoc at Harvard University in Massachusetts for two years before joining the faculty at NUI Galway, and she has lived in Galway for about eight years.
The resource is already proving popular -- there have been almost 1,000 downloads from around the world in the two months since it became available.
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We received a brief report from the 6th round of the Sao Paulo Championships that took place at the Carrefour Track in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last weekend. Mugen factory driver Mike Swauger made his way to Brazil from the US for this race and proceeded to take the top qualifying spot. This series sees everyone run a semi final and Mike was easily able to place 1st, which would give him the pole position for the main final, however prior to this it started to rain and so the race was stopped and the results taking from the final starting order. This gave the win to Swauger, ahead of his team mate Henrique Winick in 2nd, with Serpent racer Flavio Elias in 3rd.
Thanks to Davi Antunes for the report.
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Idaho, Home of the Batholith
Years ago, there was a bumper sticker that called Idaho the home of the Batholith. It makes a good point and describes what is at the core of central Idaho.
Geologists speak of "provinces" — large areas of land with certain similar features or characteristics — and one of them is the Idaho Batholith province, the amazing heart of rock at the center of the state. The word batholith signifies deep rock. This granite slowly cooled inside the earth rather than on the surface. Then erosion and glaciers exposed and shaped what we see today.
Geologists believe that the earth's crust is formed of moving tectonic plates. And two of them have been on a collision course for several hundred million years. Idaho exists at that point of collision.
Of course there are repercussions when plates collide. The intense friction of colliding plates melted the continental crust under Idaho, turning rock into molten magma. We see the effects here in central Idaho. The super heated rock formed magma blobs, or plutons, that migrated toward the earth's surface. Being less dense than the surrounding rocks, the magma rose like a marshmallow in hot chocolate.
The blobs that made it to the surface erupted as volcanoes. The ones that didn't — that eventually cooled and crystallized five or ten miles below the surface — we call batholiths.
"We have very large batholiths," says geologist Bill Bonnichsen, "like the Idaho batholith that has a southern lobe, the Atlanta lobe, and the northern lobe, the Bitterroot lobe. Then there's another large batholith called the Kaniksu batholith, that's in the core of the Selkirk range."
Geologist Marty Godchaux describes a batholith this way: "Some people think that the batholith is a huge sheet — and I think there's some merit to that — that that granite magma rises up and finds its level of neutral buoyancy, and then stops there as a giant mass and cools. Other people envision a batholith as being almost beehive-shaped, going down into the deepest part of the crust. I think probably there are more geologists now who would favor the sheet — the batholith as a great, thick, irregular sheet — at a zone of neutral buoyancy in the crust."
So there's this mass of molten rock miles deep in the earth that will eventually become the core of Idaho. But before it becomes visible, it needs to rise up. Then, it needs to shed literally miles of earth before we can see it.
Bill Bonnichsen describes it this way: "The magma of granite composition is going to be less dense than the surrounding rocks, and therefore it is going to attempt to rise; and if you've got a big enough volume of it, then there's really nothing going to stop it. It is going to rise up."
"But countering that is loss of heat," he points out. "So, many batholiths get up to a certain level in the crust where there's a balance between the strength of the rocks and the tendency to rise up, and if they crystallize at that depth, they can still have a certain amount of cover over them. In the case of the Idaho batholith, it came up to a certain level, then did its crystallization — let's say 5 to 9 miles in depth."
This cooling-off period occurred 60 to 100 million years ago, depending upon the batholith. So what exactly happens to the miles of material on top of that now-cooled batholith?
"Either part of it just physically slides off, or part of it erodes away," explains Bonnichsen. "In the case of central Idaho, both processes have occurred. All those Paleozoic and older rocks that we see over in east central Idaho, I think, to a considerable degree, just basically slid off of the uplifted zone. It took time and it went in pieces, and there's been erosion, and the Idaho batholith is still eroding. That's why you see canyons and mountains there now. It's got topography like that, which indicates it has been eroding for many, many millions of years. It's in the stage of what you'd call mature topography."
Idaho's batholith could also be called an incubator of precious metals. Gold is what catapulted Idaho into the national spotlight back in the 1860's, thirty years before it became a state.
Early prospectors found gold in stream beds and river gravels. Later they realized gold is associated with rocks formed in those tectonic collision zones directly under Idaho. And it's still a pretty safe bet that you'll find gold along what's called the Trans-Challis fault.
"A lot of the gold in Idaho was originally held in quartz veins associated with the Trans-Challis fault zone," says Bill Bonnichsen. "This is a zone of faults and igneous dikes many miles wide extending southwestward across the state from the Challis-Salmon area toward the old gold camps of Idaho City and Silver City. Why nature chose to concentrate gold along that trend is still a good geologic mystery!"
Text by Bruce Reichert