If you mean X-Men comics, rather than comics in general, I can only say: Be warned. There may not be a good place jump in, because the water is so murky.

I want a special appearance by Gray Sonja.

For what it's worth, a bishop in my church has already taken to Facebook expressing his disappointment. I'm not sure exactly why a bishop needs a Death Star, but I think I like this guy.

Hey, if it were the old gray armor (Mark Zero, I think it's called now), it wouldn't be quite so form fitting. Unless you form was kind of lumpy. Come to think of it, I really liked that armor, too, both in the comics and the movie.

Every one of these is a serious danger. These are just the sort of tin-eared changes that the producers and marketing people will push for.

I'm not sure what you disagree with. Do you actually believe that you are safer in a car, simply because you are (nominally) in control? Because that's exactly the neglect of probability that George is talking about. Or do you just mean that you don't feel a sense of personal connection to the statistics, that…

The name means "Lord of the Sea." Sounds about right.

Because they took one look and got scared. I haven't even seen it and I know it's dead and I'm still a little scared.

I've always been afraid to say it on i09, for fear of igniting a flame war, but — yeah. Absolutely. I saw Star Wars when it came out, after months of reading breathless reviews, and was instantly disappointed. Even as a fourteen-year-old boy, I wanted a more sophisticated, or at least logical, story. And, trust…

Ditto that. I don't write science fiction, but I do write sermons, and I'm thinking that 2013 may be the year I give the Prosperity Gospel a spin. (Joking, sort of.)

Your description of him makes me happy. I'd figured he must be smart, but funny, dry and nice are all things that could have gone either way.

Read anything by the late Will Eisner, especially his Contract With God trilogy. Also, for the sheer beauty of his figure art, anything drawn by Joe Kubert.

Great picture — the glossy dress reflects (and maybe helps deconstruct) the oiled-all-over shininess of traditional bodybuilding photos.

Again? I can't believe that I actually watched it once.

My hypothesis (and that's all it is right now) is that the early 21st century is, in some ways, more "old-fashioned" than the late 19th/early 20th was. In the early days of suffragism, a popular writer who wanted to create an outre female character just had to make her smart and independent — many readers, including…

Likely enough, but the point here is that DS9, unlike the other Roddenberry properties, didn't treat religion as something that required debunking. At first, it certainly seemed that it would; Sisko insisted on calling the Prophets "wormhole aliens," and Kai Winn came on like the most heinous kind of religious…

The Reacher books aren't science fiction, but they sure as heck are fantasy.

So ... did Benjamin Franklin really help them use S&M as a tool to greater self-actualization? I didn't really think so, but it was still a memorable episode.

It seems likely that DC will make Darkseid the villain in their Justice League movie, and — while this might not be the worst idea in the world — I think they'll live to regret it.

"We don't know exactly what it ate ..." Uh, yeah, I think we do: any damn thing it pleased.