What in the world would Ankh-Morpork export? If any city in any world is at the bottom of the economic effluvial system (among other effluvial systems) . . .

If only someone would do something like this for historical currencies! I want to be able to convert from modern U.S. dollars to 1920s U.S. dollars, or from a Roman sesterce in 30 BC to a Roman sesterce in 250 AD.

I wish I could recommend this post about 20,000 times. A clone is a test tube twin. Any ethical considerations should be based on how we treat twins and children conceived in vitro. The only remotely ambiguous point, as far as I can see, is who gets default guardianship.

That reminds me: the Lensman anime. It keeps a couple names from the Doc Smith books and tells a standard anime "incompetent teenage boy becomes hero" story.

The odd thing about Johnny Mnemonic is that Gibson wrote the screenplay, but it barely keeps the narrative line of the story and tacks on a whole lot of extra thematic baggage.

Introducing super powers to Arrow would definitely constitute a "game-changer." Just sayin'.

Well, "angel" did originally mean "messenger."

Honestly, if you just had one new series story to sell you on the series, I don't think you could do better than "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances."

I'm not surprised, just disappointed.

Buckaroo Banzai. Adamant Entertainment had it available for preorder something like a year ago, but it's been stuck in approvals.

At this point I'm just hoping the tabletop RPG makes it through approvals before the end of the year!

Another good recent Superman book is Glen Weldon's Superman: The Unauthorized Biography. Not that heavy into the personal interviews, but it does a great job of showing how (and just how much) Superman changed with the times and what the real core of the character is. Weldon hits on about half the trivia bits in this…

It's Legionnaires with characters from all over the Marvel Universe, I think.

Personally I thought Spider-Boy was a blast! Especially with the Legion of Galactic Guardians!

Agreed. He was always very paternal with Jo. I think Four and Sarah Jane Smith is the first pairing I can see any hint of a romance with, and it really doesn't come out until Romana II.

Prolethians makes a certain amount of sense for a neo-Luddite group. Lethe is the river of forgetfulness in Greek myth, so a group trying to make the world forget certain technologies might well be called pro-Lethean.

And the clones were born in 1984, making them 29. No way was she an adult in 1984 if she ages normally.

I'm starting to wonder if Orphan Black isn't a stealth superhero show. We've got powers and abilities beyond those of mortal men, over-the-top villains the heroes can't seem to bring themselves to kill, and a heroine learning to be a defender of the weak and innocent. All we need now is for Sarah to start wearing a…

Ainsley probably called Donnie or the priest after Alison attacked her. Or maybe before.

That would make Delphine a lot older than she looks. Which I guess is hardly out of the question.