Despite his genius, however, Barry is prone to making errors in his experiments that can lead to near-catastrophic consequences, like turning his aunt into an enormous deformed blob, knocking the Earth out of the sun's orbit, or accidentally creating an inter-dimensional rift in his basement. Due to his knowledge of the workings of the human body, he is exceptionally skilled at hand-to-hand combat. I mean way smart, like, self-awareness-in-the-womb-smart." He is an extremely prolific inventor and has built an immense secret lair underneath his suburban home full of robots, futuristic transports, and weapons.
No explanation is ever provided for his vast intellect, although the first issue begins with Barry stating that "I was smart even before birth, and I'm not talking a little smart. Characters Barry Ween īarry is ten years old and by far the smartest organism on the planet. For a time Winick's website listed Barry Ween: Boy Genius in Space as an upcoming work, which after being on hiatus for 8 years has recently been announced to be in progress. The most recent issue was released in February 2002. Oni Press picked up the title for two additional miniseries: three issues in 2000, and six issues in 20. The pair's dialogue is rife with profanity, often complex in its construction, and this foul-mouthed irreverence is reflected to a lesser extent in several of the other characters.īarry Ween's adventures were first published in a three-issue mini-series by Image Comics in 1999. Barry takes great care to keep his genius a secret and maintains Jeremy as his only confidant. Many of the storylines involve one of Barry's inventions going horribly wrong (usually due to Jeremy's clumsiness) and the two boys' efforts to right the situation before anyone can find out. Barry puts his genius to work primarily in creating outlandish inventions that are centuries ahead of their time, such as teleportation devices, jetpacks and wallet-sized nuclear devices. It follows the comical escapades of the eponymous character, a 10-year-old boy who secretly possesses the most powerful intellect on Earth, along with his impulsive best friend Jeremy and his crush Sara. The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius is a comic book metaseries created, written and illustrated by Judd Winick.
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