PZ Myers, the invaluable science blogger, reports that physicist Jim Kakalios, author of The Science of Superheroes, has been brought in as a consultant for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen movie. It seems like a curious decision; the comic features only one character with superhuman powers, after all, and he is essentially godlike and not bound by any sort of physics. And it’s not as if they needed to bring in a historian to keep 300 on an even keel, if the box office numbers rather than the critical reactions are anything to go by. May we suggest saving the money they’d spend on a physics consultant and putting it towards a script doctor instead?
— Leonard Pierce