>He has doctorates in medicine and cybernetics; with those skills, he develops >cyberware and the equipment and medical procedures used to install and maintain >it. His inventions range from medical replacements like the StarkMed Model 74 >bionic heart to modifications primarily employed by military and police forces, >such as nano-infiltrative bone and skin reinforcement technologies.It's been years since I last saw any part of the BC, and the parts I do remember are mostly associated with Bob's DWII, so I might be wrong in my recollections but isn't their some cultural or possible technical taboo about cybernetics? Are people going to be freaked out by ol' Doc MegaZone and his black bag or is it more of a "the Japanese hate/fear cyber but everyone else, ehhh not so much?" If this is a plot point, I'll cheerfully mind my own buisness and any other buisness that needs minding :D
>Publicly, she lives on the income from her father's patents but shares none of >his technological genius,
HA!
>Nene Romanova
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This is the first time I've ever seen the 2040 Nene, and in all honesty I have no idea how I feel about the new look. I don't feel apathy, which I guess is a good thing, but it'll take some getting used to for my mind to "see" her when I read. I will say that I do like the fact that the blond is a realistic sandy color instead of something out of a 1st graders Crayola box. And speaking of redesigns...
>Daley Wong
Am I the only one who thinks Daley should be teaching English Lit 101?
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Jon Helscher
RY: Blackbeard has the weapon traditionally considered by children to be the ultimate destructive instrument, the bazooka
AB: Only to be trumped by the bazooka that fires dinosaurs.
Ryan Yount & Andrew Boyd's Authors' Commentary in Scurvy Dogs TPB