Maybe it was a scanning electron microscope?

No, it wasn't. It was a light microscope. Which is what all microscopes look like on TV. SEMs look nothing like light microscopes. And besides, you don't look in an SEM, the computer does.

Also, there was the part where Beast could actually look in the microscope and watch the virus enter and infect cells in a matter of seconds. I must have been really young and stupid when I first watched this show. It's still good, but man. My disbelief must have been locked up in a coffin at the bottom of the ocean.

Maybe it was a scanning electron microscope?

It was a mutant telescope...

This week I got Carnet de Voyage, the new book by Craig Thompson. It's basically a sketchbook diary of his travels in Europe and Morocco.

I really liked it. It's really authentic and heartfelt, and the artwork is gorgeous, especially considering that it's just a sketchbook, and part way along the trip he lost his art supplies, and some of the drawings are in ballpoint pen.

I read his first GN, Goodbye Chunky Rice, but I passed on his second book, Blankets, mostly because I was intimidated by its size (600 pages). I'm going to have to go back and read it now.

It was a light microscope.

Pffft. It was a television microscope. They're extra special. Television microscopes can even be used to determine molecular stuctures.

I watched a couple of episodes of the X-Men cartoon, and I just can't handle it. X-Men as superheroes well beyond their power bothers me. Rogue should not be able to fly around, pick up a tree, and knock down large juggernaut-sized mutants with it. She doesn't have super-strength in my mind.

'Course, i'm missing a lot of X-Men canon in the comic world, too. So maybe this happens at some point (a friend of mine suggested that she sucked up the powers of a dying Wonderwoman???) - so far, I'm only familiar with movie-Rogue and the much different but nonetheless limited Ultimate-Rogue.

Is Scott supposed to be strong enough to break metal chains without using his eye-thing? I don't think he is. Another example.

I don't mind the concept of "X-Men are superheroes, let's make them all Superman/Wonderwoman" in theory. I just can't watch it.

I'm a little sketchy on my X Men canon, but when Rogue was still with Mystique and bad she absorbed Ms. Marvel's personality and powers. Something happened and she kept Ms. Marvel's powers which included flight, super human strength, etc.

I think she ended up with Ms. Marvel's personality at one point too.

Rogue should not be able to fly around, pick up a tree, and knock down large juggernaut-sized mutants with it. She doesn't have super-strength in my mind.

Uhm, Rogue had Ms. Marvel's (Carol Danvers, now called Warbird) powers for most of her existence in the real Marvel Universe. Indeed, the accident of permanently draining Carol's powers and memories was what lead to Rogue reforming. IIRCC, she's currently devoid of all her powers, but remains with the X-Men.

Is Scott supposed to be strong enough to break metal chains without using his eye-thing? I don't think he is. Another example.

This one,on the other hand, I've got nothing for.

I'm a little sketchy on my X Men canon, but when Rogue was still with Mystique and bad she absorbed Ms. Marvel's personality and powers. Something happened and she kept Ms. Marvel's powers which included flight, super human strength, etc.

She sucked her completely dry - held on to her for so long, that it was permanent. One of the side effects was that she took her mind/personality as well, which is why she became a good guy.

In fact, it wasn't until I'd been reading X-Men for a while that I realised that the superstrength/flight/invulerability wasn't actually Rogue's power.

Is Scott supposed to be strong enough to break metal chains without using his eye-thing? I don't think he is. Another example.

Ummmm . . . . They were really WEAK chains?

Rogue should not be able to fly around, pick up a tree, and knock down large juggernaut-sized mutants with it. She doesn't have super-strength in my mind.

Uhm, Rogue had Ms. Marvel's (Carol Danvers, now called Warbird) powers for most of her existence in the real Marvel Universe.

I was gonna say, Rogue's been super strong/flying most of her career.

In fact, I think I remember the Ms. Marvel bit being in the cartoon at one point, which is how I learned about it.