While it might have also been a "short-lived 1973 anthology," the original Strange Sports Stories was a six-issue feature of the Brave and the Bold in the early `60s. I remember reading the short-lived series with great delight... not surprisingly, since I was 12 years old.

A story: Several years ago I visited my parents in Florida and had to leave their house before dawn in order to catch a flight to Orlando. I was half-asleep, staring out into the dark Florida night, when I noticed the sky was getting brighter... and getting brighter much too quickly.

And with the memorable name of Moose Malloy, 'a big man but not more than six feet five inches tall and not wider than a beer truck.' Mu second favorite Raymond Chandler name after Doghouse Riley.

Uh, that would be Ray *Glasser* #corrections

Apropos of nothing except that it's gotten me annoyed enough to comment, if io9 doesn't dump that Droid animated ad soon, I'm either getting AdBlocker or stop coming to this site. Every time it runs, I expect to have an epileptic fit and it literally gave me a headache today.

And more

Here's a start. From Wikipedia:

Nice tush on Ivy.

Agreed on the previous comments that the music doesn't work. Recommendation: Turn off the sound, open another tab in your browser, go to this link [www.televisiontunes.com] start the sound, play the movie

And let us not forget Kosho.

There was only one true Dr. Loveless

I'd vote for Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons (Cordwainer Smith) both as most awesome weapon and most awesome name.

LOL. I thought we were going to get Walter referring to "Maggot Brains" or something. Why do I think Osmium might be a shout-out to Fringe's favorite movie, "The Wizard of Oz"?

Supergirl was "one of Superman's other girlfriends"? Isn't that a little ah, incestuous?

Just ordered it at Amazon (you have to search to find it) [amzn.to] If there was ever a book that needs to be on the Kindle, this is it, but I suspect they'll wait for it to go to paperback first.

A corollary to the recent io9 article on self-referential series might be that you can almost guarantee that a creator has jumped the shark when he introduces him/herself into his own work. I'm thinking of things like Animal Man and Cerebus the Aardvark as well as Dick's later works.

If I could indulge in a minirant of my own, I wish io9 would credit the art used to illustrate their articles, such as the above, so one might explore the source further.

@k4man: Done

Can anyone make out what Roscoe calls Astrid when they say goodbye at his apartment? It's not Astrid, nor one of Walter's variations (like "Ashram"). And it isn't "Ms Farnsworth" either). It sounds like "Chloe," but that doesn't make any sense.