Well hello again. Been a while. Moved in to my new house a lil over a month ago and have been putting more time into it than this blog, unfortunately.
Any who, I'm going to do a post about some of my favorite comics that strike at the Electrical engineering side of me. Books that are heavy in gadgets, super techno science, and complex machines.
First ill start with whats in the picture, Ex Machina for those who do not know. This is one of my favorite books, ending soon or ended at issue 50(not sure haven't got comics in a while), even setting aside the fact that it deals with weired techo concepts. Synopses goes like this: Mitchell Hundred is given the ability to speak to machines and control them with his voice. His super-heroics are told mostly in flashback as he has become mayor of New York City and "retires" for the most part from being The Great Machine. He has to deal with current problems of being mayor and deal with past problems he had created for himself.
I love this book; for one, Hundred's powers are just cool; and two, it is written by Brian K. Vaughan which is sure to write a compelling story with a good bit of humor and social commentary. Why this is a cool book for an EE like me is that fact that Hundred is himself and engineer i want to be, not just because he can talk to machines and build things in his sleep, but because he is a smart guy who deals with the problems he is faced with; even if solving them doesn't give the best outcome for him.
Next up is Atomic Robo, this book I love mostly because it indirectly stars my favorite electrical engineer of all time, Nikola Tesla (Father of AC). Basically the story goes that Tesla built this AI (Automatic Intelligence) capable robot in 1923 that succeeded him in his death and goes on to start his own company and become a world adventurer of sorts from the 1940s onto nowish. Its a very fun book with a lot of action and humor (robots vs dinosaurs vs Nazi vs giant walking pyramids)
Then, or course there is Batman. This is a character that has more of less influenced my feeling on becoming an engineer. I am pretty sure that i have always wanted to be an engineer but seeing the batman character with all of his gadgets and mostly designing and building them himself just inspired me more. my goal in life is pretty much to be able to build batman level gadgets.
Life Goals are to progress as follows: Build Batman level gadgets->build AI Huminoid robots->Speak to and control machines.
