And all of Butcher's novels, as far as I know, are series novels. Saberhagen wrote a number of series: Berserker, the Dracula sequence, Book of Swords / Lost Swords, etc.

Yes, I understood Charlie Jane's joke. I just thought it was funny that the actual VP at the time had a name that was also a Dick joke.

"as E.B. Tiller says, the night air does wonders for your Johnson. But enough about the Vice President."

The irony of Chris Claremont complaining about a mind-control story is almost palpable. The man has seemingly dedicated his career to writing mind control stories — or maybe the same one, over and over — as if he felt the need to demonstrate, over and over, that there are good mind control stories. "That is not how…

Legend of Drizzt? If you're going to use a D&D property, I would have thought Dragonlance, with its Towers of Sorcery, would be a better choice. Or at least call it the Forgotten Realms, not after the fanboy magnet drow and his Welsh panther.

> "The truth is, X-Force has always been on the fringe of the X-Men. That's no small feat ..."

I always thought a part of his early appeal was that he wasn't Bret Blevins, the artist he replaced on New Mutants. I tired of Blevins's work well before he left — he managed to make the team look like anorexic tweens rather than superheroes. Liefeld, whatever you said about him, made the characters look they'd eaten…

I liked that episode too, although obviously it's no classic. I always figured the reason Data chose craps is because it's one of few (only?) casino games in which the bettors control the random number generation — in card games and roulette, the representative of the house is the one dealing or spinning the wheel. Of…

Callum Keith Rennie makes everything he's in worse; the only thing that excited me about Battlestar was the possibility of watching him die multiple times, and the moment I knew I would have to watch all of Supernatural was the second episode, because Rennie gets eaten by a wendigo.

Hey, you know what will really drive interest in an event? Decimals in the issue numbers! Whole numbers are so passe.

No one ever mentions the truly weird bit of the scene with the Khitain chieftains: a WASPy voice at the very beginning (2:24) saying, "My fear is my sons will never understand me."

No Jack Vance or Fritz Leiber? I guess Robert E. Howard took all of the early sword-and-sorcery votes ... but I'm really disappointed The Dying Earth, either as a book or series, didn't make it.

A shark on whiskey is mighty risky.

So even before the time travel, two of our future presidents were already British (Amelia Pond and Owen Harper). Or does association with the Doctor, however tenuous, overrule nationalities and / or the Constitution?

Are you "asses" in that couplet about Attike means "donkeys"? Because it would make a lot more sense if it referred to the Roman copper or bronze coin called the "as" (plural "asses"). A Roman might scrounge up 16 coppers but no one's going to be leading a string of donkeys around. And grammatically, translating…

Have there ever been long-term happily married superheroes? (Other than Reed and Sue Richards and Ralph and Sue Dibny, that is.)

I believe some Internet commenters — not DC, as far as I know — are going with "DCnU."

Slightly less crazy (not the least because it actually worked) is the Le Mat revolver. The cap-and-ball revolver was invented before the Civil War and had a nine-chamber cylinder above a shotgun barrel. It was actually popular with many Confederate cavalrymen and officers, including Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard.

The 600+ issues is starting from Amazing Spider-Man #1, back in 1963. Marvel has played with the numbering a few times over the last decade or so. The number of issues since the "Brand New Day" "relaunch" (read: slight continuity tweak while gearing stories to be slightly more new reader friendly) in 2008 is closer to…

So Yoda was right — fear does, eventually, lead to suffering. In this case, it doesn't seem to make any stopovers at hate or anger, though.