Kevin J. Anderson's novel Nemo gives him a dull origin and makes him French. Verne's Nemo was meant to be Polish in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but the publisher censored this. In his first appearance, he is known only by the Latin version of Odyssey's pseudonym Nobody or No Man. By the time of The Mysterious…

Trepanation. The device looked very much like the 18th century trepanation screw that a friend of mine received as an anniversary present from her husband.*

Wait till you see the One-Eyebrow Priest cast the spirit of Bruce Lee into N!Xau so he can fight a zombie.

I despise it for turning a horrific true story about the dangers of religious fanaticism and belief in the supernatural into a movie which pretends that demonic possession is real. Anneliese Michel, the real "Emily Rose," died of malnutrition and two broken legs after her parents and a bishop allowed two priests to…

I seem to recall someone, either JMS or Garth Ennis, writing a very dry and snarky Strange who was like a cross between William Powell and Clifton Webb. Or is that just the standard take on the character these days?

I wish the director wasn't associated with the morally reprehensible Exorcism of Emily Rose, which not only claimed that a woman who in real life was abused to death by her parents and a priest was actually possessed, but ended on a note of spiritual uplift.

Pauline was clearly Christine Granville.

Crossbones is based on Colin Woodard's excellent nonfiction book The Republic of Pirates, which shows how the Flying Gang — a number of the great pirate captains that included Blackbeard and Black Sam Bellamy as well as the more vicious and unstable Charles Vane — briefly established a free republic in the Bahamas,…

Frankenstein begins in Switzerland.

There's actually about 26 minutes of the Victor/Caliban plot and 22 minutes of the rest. It first cuts away from the latter (and to Billie Piper's ass) at around the 25 minute mark.

Are you male or female? I assume Aaron Boyd is the former, but I can see a fangirl adopting Dorian as a user name.

It's my favorite art in any current superhero comic; I think it's a truly joyous antidote to all the grotesquely overly rendered stuff out there, and very much its own thing despite the obvious Kirby, Ditko, Steranko and Allred touches. But de gustibus and all that; my point is that it looks nothing like the pin-up…

And what does that have to do with who reads the book now? Here in these comments Persia is making it clear she's a big fan of the character. Over on the Dissolve's comments, Lurky is doing the same thing. And there sure seem to be a lot of blogs like this one out there, written by women who call She-Hulk their…

The people who are saying that are actually reading the book, not pulling up an assortment of Google images, many of which are old and few of which are actual comic book panels or covers. Last 4th of July I did a Google image search on Captain America, as I wanted a Steranko or Kirby panel for my Facebook page. One…

I'm not particularly fond of the ones Nolan did direct. I'll certainly never watch any film in his Batman trilogy again.

Actually, it doesn't matter how much a screenwriter makes for a studio, as it's never considered to be because of the movie's script. William Goldman, once of the highest paid screenwriters in the business, would agree with with the "just above jizz mopper" status. Hence the old joke about the actress who was so…

I seem to recall a hilarious Buscema drawing in Stan Lee's HOW TO DRAW COMICS THE MARVEL WAY of a "normal guy" whose physique was being contrasted with Captain America's. Of course he abs and a six pack that most gym rats would die for.

Here's the current take on She-Hulk.

Blogs like The Mary Sue suggest that she's currently a fangirl favorite on par with Ms. or Captain Marvel.

These panels are more representative of the current She-Hulk title: