Dear reader, imagine, if you will, that you are superstar comic writer Brian Michael Bendis. \u00a0The challenge set before you is that, at times, you must write nerdy, sciency-type characters, when you yourself are not a nerdy, sciency-type kinda guy, but a mere purveyor of schlock. \u00a0So\u00a0how can a writer\u00a0convey that someone is a smarty\u00a0with\u00a0– let me emphasize – the least possible amount of effort?<\/p>\n
What’s that you say?\u00a0 “Have them\u00a0dispassionately demand someone else’s blood and urine,” you say? \u00a0Well, congratulations, you are correct! \u00a0As seen here<\/a>. \u00a0And also here<\/a>. \u00a0And lest we forget here<\/a>, and here<\/a> shortly thereafter. \u00a0And here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>. \u00a0And finally, my personal favorite<\/a> – “Someone, please<\/em>, this man needs blood and urine!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear reader, imagine, if you will, that you are superstar comic writer Brian Michael Bendis. \u00a0The challenge set before you is that, at times, you must write nerdy, sciency-type characters, when you yourself are not a nerdy, sciency-type kinda guy, but a mere purveyor of schlock. \u00a0So\u00a0how can a writer\u00a0convey that someone is a smarty\u00a0with\u00a0– […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}