Miller's Bat-tank also had cannons & guns. Not to mention both the cycle and the batmobile in the latest movies had guns.

See DKR and Final Conflict.

Rubber bullets. Honest.

Do you mean force bubbles or Force bubbles? Every single pilot in those ships cannot be a Jedi. And not all Jedi have the skill necessary to deflect any energy, let alone so much energy.

Hey, if you think you can come up with a better form of government, go ahead. The argument is incomplete - it should actually say "every other alternatives [that we have tried or thought of so far] is worse".

Nobody, but it is a valid analogy - remember the guy at the orphenarium?

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: For I am the baddest motherfucker in the valley.

The problem for me was that I didn't like any of the characters. I didn't care about any of them, and the plot didn't really grab me. After reading the first TPB I did not get another.

Yup, pretty much. George though wasn't nearly this bad. He ignored science altogether, but at least the vast majority of things in his universe felt and were described as explainable & scientific. Only a very minor part was magic - and even that was for the most part internally consistent.

With 3k votes it's official. Few people like Superman, everyone likes the Borg. Science!

Will no one rid me of this meddlesome Moffat? This episode is not nearly as awful and atrocious as last years' Christmas special, but it has loads of room for improvement. The most terrible thing about this episode is that ... person ... is turning Doctor Who into a dark fairy tale. As I and many other people have…

What about telling him to stop when he was crossing the street leaving the casino?

Yes. Everyone has to go some time. But when you see it that far away, you set things up so that you go with as many things set up properly as you can.

I was greatly disappointed by Nina's solution to the problem. A gun? She used a gun? That she grabbed from one of the bad guys directly? Really??? This was incredibly disappointing. She has had decades to come up with various contingency plans, but apparently the writers couldn't figure out how to fit them in.

Which Superman? There have been plenty, with different power sets. Some couldn't even fly. Some could bench-press planets.

OK, here's one other thing that the guy didn't cover. It's not true of all science fiction, so it is not an all-encompassing definition but is true of the best stuff. And is almost never true of fantasy. Let me paraphrase Q from probably the best TNG episode, All Good Things:

Meh. I now know what the Penny Arcade guys meant. This guy goes deeeep into literary theory, and I listened to him with half an ear, but I think he does touch on one of the core points. Somewhere. At some point. Obliquely and in a very obtuse way.

No, not so much. Most of fantasy is written explicitly from a non-scientific perspective. From the perspective that it's not technology or sufficiently advanced science and that it can't be understood. You can try to interpret it that way, but you would be putting in extra layers of meaning and interpretation that…

Big O. Basically it is one of the more realistic designs out there. No weird transforming features, doesn't fly, doesn't have wings with feathers, doesn't run around at 300 mph, but does kick butt. Besides everything else, Big O the anime has one of the more trippy ideas behind it, even though it didn't finish. …

Once scene that I vaguely remember is Garak sitting in a room and listening to the conversation of somebody else in the next room through a hole in the wall... Listening for signs of treason in a strictly controlled society. Not exactly riveting reading.