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Paul Pope has become one of those American artists whose biggest audience is in Europe. You may wonder why, since he creates smart, uniquely stylized sci-fi-genre fiction. Pope's latest series, "Heavy Liquid," has now been collected into book form by DC Comic's Vertigo imprint. Pope's work has the same effect on his audience as the Wachowski brothers' "Matrix," creating an exciting new visual experience that you have to scramble to keep up with...
Pope has no pity for slow learners. By the time you read the first page, the main character, known as "S," has already stolen the volatile titular liquid from a criminal gang and begun to boil some of it up so he can drip it into his ear for its psychotropic properties. Thereafter it becomes a double cat-and-mouse tale as the gang hunts down "S" while "S" gets hired by an art collector to find a missing artist who can cast the liquid into a sculpture. Meanwhile, nobody really knows where this liquid comes from or what...
...children is about what you need if you're hoping to die at home and not in a warehouse. My younger brothers and sister take turns on night duty, along with my niece, and of course my mother is there, seeing to everything, administering the liquid nutrients and Tylenol through a feeding tube, adjusting the oxygen. It is an up-and-down business. At various times, he has seemed to be at death's door, and distant family have flown in to say goodbye, and then the other night, with my little girl standing at his bedside and poking...
...prevent massive blood clots from making you even deader. Then your clammy corpse is transported to the CI facility in Clinton Township, MI, where your blood is replaced with increasing concentrations of, um, antifreeze. After washing out blood and "perfusing" with "cryoprotectant" the "dead" body is lowered to liquid nitrogen temperature over the course of two weeks to avoid macroscopic and microscopic cracks that occur if patients are cooled too quickly (I would hate to see those early, more crumbly patients). From here it's straight into your cold dark home, a holding tank with up to 15 other like...
...like this cold, wet and dreary Boston weather, have I got a deal for you. Picture an unlimited stay peacefully bobbing in the animation-suspending -200 C liquid nitrogen tanks of the Cryonics Institute for less than your parents spend on one year of Harvard tuition. That's right, the price of immortality has fallen to the paltry one-time fee of $28,000. Given this one-time capital commitment, and the wonders of compounded interest, members of the Cryonics Institute will painstakingly tend to your body until the as-yet-undetermined time when technological and medical advancements allow your...