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Ryan’s Writings

This is the page for promoting the writing Ryan does that’s NOT for the Paleocave Blog. Those posts can be found here: Ryan’s Ramblings.

Ryan likes to write a lot, and not just about science (well, usually about science) but sometimes he uses science in conjunction with other topics, generally comics. Below are a list of his available articles. Enjoy!

First and foremost, he plays around on Tumblr with a blog entitled Living the Sci Life but he’s also been writing for Motherboard, but there nice enough to compile his posts for him which you can find here.

Marvel Science:

Marvel NOW! Q&A: Iron Man

The Science of Thor

(Posted in the months leading up to the release of Iron Man 2 in May 2010)

Iron Man’s Armor

Iron Man’s Flight Capabilites

Iron Man’s User Interface (UI)

Iron Man’s Weaponry

 

iFanboy (Presented stratigraphically, i.e. newest at the top, there are more science-based posts towards the bottom):

Comic Shots: COWBOY NINJA VIKING and a Bijou Cocktail

Charity and Planet Hunting

The Power of Anthology

Top 5 DC Villains Without Powers (Who Aren’t The Joker Or Lex Luthor)

Winter Is Coming, And You’ll Need Comics To Survive It

Storylines Lost

Top 5: DC Superheroes Without Powers (Who Aren’t Batman)

That One Comic We All Remember

Brooklyn Brewery Crafts Beer Just For NYCC

Who Has The Best Villains in Comics?

Comic Shots: THE ROCKETEER and an Aviation Cocktail

An Assortment of Suppositions, Assertions, And Unanswered Questions

Superheroes in The Text

A Wednesday State of Mind

Reorganization Opportunities

I Need A Hero, Or Do I?

Oh The Places You’ll Go! (When You Read Comics)

The Manga That I’ve Read

Comic Characters As Video Gaming Gold

Comic Shots: BLACKSAD and Old Tom Ale

The Trials and Tribulations of Trying New Trades

More Magneto Science Gaffes!

Getting Taken Out of The Story (By Bad Science)

Comic Shots: THE LEADING MAN and An Brain Blásta

Pop-up Comics And Technological Revolutions

Comic Book Progression

The 10 Commandments of Comic Fandom

When Opinions Leave The Internet

Sympathy For The Villain

Obsession With Story

Comic Shots: THE AMAZON and Birra Forst Sixtus

So We All Agree Bruce Wayne Will Die In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, Right?

Gadgets I Want From Comics (And Some I Don’t)

I’ve Read Nothing Lately

Comic Shots: CONAN THE BARBARIAN and a Hot Buttered Rum

More Superman Musings AKA The Conversation Continues

iFanboy User Makes iFanboy Staffer’s Dream Come True

Autobiographical Comix

Top 5: Superheroes Who Started Out In The Circus

Comic Book Movie Anticipation

Top 5: Bald Superpeople With Mental Powers

Things To Love About Comics Right Now

REVIEW: The Zen Of Steve Jobs

Is Comics Journalism Really A Thing?

So I Read Some STAR WARS Comics

So I Read LOST GIRLS: And Other Pertinent Thoughts

How The Heck Did Jor-El Find Earth?

Can I Just Talk About Some Books I’ve Liked Lately?

Your Favorite Character Might Not Always Agree With You

Comics and the Significant Other

Comic Shots: KILL SHAKESPEARE and Rogue’s Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout

Why Wolverine Would Avoid IPAs

One Way To Reduce Piracy: Improve The LCS Experience

Marvel’s Mutants Have A New Villain… And It’s Marvel

Art Deco Superheroes Remind You of The Original ‘Metropolis’

2012 Comics Predictions

Comic Shots: LOKI and Pranqster

Let’s All Go To The Library

On the Carrying Capacity of Comics

Catching Up on Last Year’s Top 10

Return of the General Interest

Separating the Creator from the Created

Comic Fatigue vs. Actual Fatigue

Comic Fans and the Conundrum of General Interest

VIDEO: Playable Sidekicks in ‘Batman: Arkham City’

Comic Fans And Short Attention Spans

Stories DC Needs to Animate

VIDEO: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer

Obscure Animals and Superpowers Part 2: The Villains

Science of the New DCU

Obscure Animal Superheroes I Want To See

Casey Jones Hits Your Screen With A 35-minute Fan Film

New ‘Walking Dead’ Season 2 Promo

The Comics Market: A Beer Analogy

China to Build Word Balloon Shaped Comic Museum

What I’ve Learned from Comics: The College Years

Sound SCIENCE: Return of the Black Bolt

A Skeptic Goes to Gotham

Top 5 Major Scientific Conceits of Superhero Comics

The How of Y: Alas Poor Yorrick, We Knew Him Way Too Well

Marvel Minimalism Yields Striking Character Posters

Top 5 Indie Comics of SCIENCE

Colleen Doran’s Different Take on the Wonder Woman Redesign

Overlooking the Future: “Futurism” in Comics

SDCC 2011: DC to Animate DARK KNIGHT RETURNS

SDCC 2011: MacGyver to fix all your comic problems

SDCC 2011: Unveiling ‘Avengers’ Movie Posters

SDCC 2011: Marvel and DC Partnering with LEGO

Super Soldier SCIENCE: Fact vs. Fiction

Problems of an Alien Nature

Superhero Science Guidance Conselor: Telling People with Powers what to Study

REVIEW: Save Yourself, Mammal! – An SMBC Collection

Comic Pet Peeves… of SCIENCE: Doctors without Labels

Earth Options for Multicolored Corps: Animals, Sentience and Other Rings

VIDEO: Batman vs. Wolverine (in French!)

The REAL Reason Professor X Went Bald: A Scientific Analysis

Center for Disease Control Releases Zombie Preparedness Guide

John Layman Predicts Future in Future Issue of CHEW

Yet More Uncanny X-SCIENCE

Comic Experiment Continued: Can the panels alone tell the story?

Comic Experiment: Can the panels alone tell the story?

The Mutant Paradox: On the (Sympatric) Origin of the Species

Top 5: Comic Book Half-Humans

Being Perfectly Clear: How extra information can enhance the comic experience

VIDEO: THOR movie promo uses littlest Asgardian to mock the littlest Sith

SCIENCE used for the Right Stuff: T-Minus, The Race to the Moon

A Taxonomy of Scientific Villainy, Part 3 & Conclusion

A Taxonomy of Scientific Villainy, Part 2

A Taxonomy of Scientific Villainy, Part 1

VIDEO: George Takei’s Audition Tape for SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK

VIDEO: Shaun of the Dead in 60 seconds in the style of Scott Pilgrim

Fan Made X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Credits Are Retrotastic!

Holy Hotrods, Batman! The Batmobile Gets A Redesign

The SCIENCE of Green Lantern: Embracing the Yellow

BREAKING: Amy Adams cast as Lois Lane

Showtime to Adapt CHEW

Great Moments in Comics History: Tales of Suspense #53

Top 5 Webcomics… of SCIENCE

Roberson References The Superhero Dictionary

Escape from Reality

Super Trailer Looks Kick-Ass

Answering the Unanswerable Question… with SCIENCE

Special Edition Podcast: All-Star Superman

7 Days of Stack Week – Part 6: Cloud Storage and Digital Guilt

X-Men Anime Teaser Goes Live!

The Superman Diet: Meat Not on the Menu

New DC Universe Trailer Puts the Movie Trailers to Shame

Comics for the Sake of Movies: Does the End Justify the Means?

Tuesday Showdown: The Flash vs. Spider-Man on the Court

Top 5: DC Superpeople with Military Ranks NOT Captain

A Study in Stripes: Thoughts on Finishing Calvin and Hobbes

REVIEW: Kill Shakespeare Vol. 1

REVIEW: Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth

One Chart, Every Spider-Man Publication Ever

In Defense of Bane

A-Z of Awesomeness!

Periodic Table of Fictional Materials Catalogs the Unreal

Pondering PLANETARY: Thoughts on a New Classic

Almost a Show: GOTHAM HIGH Cartoon Concept Art Revealed!

REVIEW: LOGICOMIX

Roy Chapman Andrew Comics!

Evolution of the Batmobile

Top 10 Books I Wish I’d Started Reading in 2010

OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS: A webcomic maybe too close to home

Actor Injured During “SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK”

Superheroes as Dinosaurs… Finally!

SCIENCE: Can Hulk haz strongest bones there is?

REVIEW: Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards

Favorite Artists of SCIENCE

Writing SCIENCE Right

SCIENCE: Can The Flash Fly?

The Terminal Side of Futurism: Getting Grungy Science Right

Walking with the Dead: The SCIENCE of Zombie Coexistence

SCIENCE gone MAD!!

SCIENCE: Weather Powers and Global Climate Change

SCIENCE: Crazy Powers Animals Based Super-People SHOULD Have

The Amazing True Story of Ray Palmer!

Sick of SCIENCE: Needing a Break

Moore Mocks Miller: Pfeifer Pontificates

SCIENCE: Taking to the Sky… sort of

SCIENCE: Circumventing the Solid

Top 5: Amalgam Comics Characters

Amalgam Age of Comics: Back to the Well of Awesome

Reading with Pictures: Funnybook, Serious Mission

Collaborative SCIENCE: Responding to the Peer Review

X-Problems: When SCIENCE Mucks Up Your Mutants

Obligation to Heroics: The Limited Job Market for Metahumans

Detective Chimp in The Curious Case of Cause and Effect!

SCIENCE Defiance: SDCC and Human Evolution

REVIEW: Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation

Top 5: DC Characters Who Could Have Helped Your Dying Husband Instead of Superman

Interview: J. D. Arnold on BB Wolf and the 3 LP’s

Top 5 Heroes… of SCIENCE!

REVIEW: Jurassic Park Redemption #1

Wounded Science! Healing in Comics

Science! If Dr. Light REALLY Used His Powers

Science vs. Magic: Is there really a difference?

Interview: Chris Roberson on iZombie and Fables

Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!

Hope Larson to Adapt A Wrinkle in Time

Science! Why Beast Makes Sense… Sort Of

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