Science as we know it is a system of acquiring knowledge based
on the scientific method and an organized body of knowledge
gained through such research. Then there is science!—note the
exclamation mark—which generally involves the crazy
misadventures of mad scientists and inventors as they battle
those destructive forces which uncontrolled experimentation has
wrought and explore the lost corners of the natural world
encountering beings and places beyond imagination. Works that
might be adorned with this label include Matt Fraction’s The
Five Fists of Science and Phil Foglio’s Girl Genius series.
Perhaps feeling that there was a void to be filled (or not),
Sydney Padua has created a series of comics about Ada Lovelace
and Charles Babbage that could perhaps be described as—math! The
comic strips are largely fiction; in the comic Lovelace and
Babbage use the power of the difference engine to solve problems
and fight evil , but in reality Lovelace died young and Babbage
never built his calculating machines. Howev