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How many times can they beat this poor man over the head before *I* start to feel guilty for reading?!

The wonders of medicine. Where no one knows shit and all the important stuff is in the hands of dice no one can see.

Ok.

There is deconstructed storytelling.

And then there's being lazy. Back in the day someone paid money for this book and an entire page is the same image repeated TWELVE TIMES

I don't know how to...DEFINE what the fuck Carrion is supposed to be wearing. Let alone how that shoulder cowl stays on.

Because it is always on your worst days that the giant fucking robots show up.

Guardian trusts that shield more than he trusts the sun to come up in the morning.

Ah. Well.

That makes the process of dismantling the killbot MUCH more complicated.

Mostly because you do shit like this, Clark.

Who WOULDNT want to be more like you?

Do the words "incriminating" mean anything to you, Lex?!

This comic is, as is usual for Wednesday’s comics, chosen by my Patrons. Speaking of…

NO.

Stuffing cigarette butts into the lining of nests may seem unwholesome. But a team of ecologists says that far from being unnatural, the use of smoked cigarettes by city birds may be an urban variation of an ancient adaptation.

Birds have long been known to line their nests with vegetation rich in compounds that drive away parasites. Chemicals in tobacco leaves are known to repel arthropods such as parasitic mites, so Monserrat Suárez-Rodríguez, an ecologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, and her colleagues wondered whether city birds were using cigarette butts in the same way.

In a study published in Biology Letters, the researchers examined the nests of two bird species common on the North American continent. They measured the amount of cellulose acetate (a component of cigarette butts) in the nests, and found that the more there was, the fewer parasitic mites the nest contained.

As well as having anti-parasite effects, Suárez-Rodríguez cautions there may be as-yet unknown negative effects for the birds, because many compounds in cigarette butts are known carcinogens, and some are pesticides.