Giant Weasel!

Going to attempt to sleep again. Have some giant Amazonian otters:

Sunday Trade: Action Philosophers

Action Philosophers volume 3 by Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey

The third and final trade paperback of the mash-up of comics and philosophy. A clever and humorous way to showcase the basic concepts of a variety of philosophers. Or as the back cover blurb says: Read More Comics - Get More Smarter!

The last volume is only three issues but includes the tightly packed final "Lightning Round" issue. Learn about Aristotle, The Pre-Socratics, Epictetus the Stoic, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, Diogenes the Cynic, Lao Tzu, Foucault, David Hume, Confucius, Berkeley, Francis Bacon, Rousseau, Hobbes, Mary Woostonecraft, Spinoza and Leibniz. I do wonder that they didn't go for the obvious Calvin & Hobbes parody with Hobbes. Maybe they used it for Calvin. If they covered him. Could be in volume 2 which I don't have...

But this series ranks up their with The Science of Discworld for helping me at least cram knowledge into my brain meats. Which given how little I've retained from my OFFICIAL schooling is always impressive. I blame THAC0. Remembering how that works probably crowds my simple mind...