I went to a talk at the Science Museum (in London) the other day about amperkines - a new drug that doesn't improve focus, but actually promotes the growth of new brain connections increasing the speed at which we learn. I find the idea of messing with brain chemistry a bit creepy, but the idea that we could at some point in the future take a pill to make us not just temporarily more focused, but permanently smarter seems to me like a good thing - although the issues of whether it would be available to everyone or only to the rich is a tricky one. Either way I think I'd like to get my hands on some of these pills!

Also I'm hoping that an overdose would give me psychic powers.

Wasn't he the end of level boss in contra?

I didn't draw a comic this year, but I wanted to post a link to John Cambell's fantastic 24 hour comic 'the man who used to know everything':
http://stereotypist.livejournal.com/92575.html
Also KC Green did this creepy one:
http://capn-special.livejournal.com/81205.html#cutid1