I just wish they'd hire a damn copy editor. Every single article I've read here in the last month has had at least one glaring grammatical issue or typo in it. Every single one. Hey, io9, I'm available for copy editing . . . :-)

I loved the fact that Bane ultimately is motivated by his love for Talia, whom he took care of when she was a child in The Pit. That gave him an extra dimension you don't generally see with supervillains.

Yes, and as Alan Moore made clear in The Watchmen, vigilantes tend to be either off their rockers or d-bags. Or both. Anyone who would actually put on a funny costume, especially one that obscures their identity, and then go out and beat up on people they presume to be worthy of such a beating . . . is probably not…

As I have no children, and no plans of ever producing any, of course I love my nieces and nephew over my own (nonexistent) children. But, while I can see the genetic aspect of this, surely we are not driven to love the children (or anyone else) in our family only by how many genes they share with us. I would think…

In the immortal words of Jim Morrison, people are strange . . .

Are you kidding? I felt weird eating the large chocolate bunnies we always got in our Easter baskets as kids. Those are just waaaaaay too realistic for me to take a bite out of, and I love white chocolate more than I do the regular kind!

Bill Joy rhymes with killjoy. I'm just sayin'.

You know, if I had this condition I would go full-on Na'vi—have the ears modified into points, pad out the bridge of the nose, and get the cat's eye contact lenses. Then I would dump a bucket of glitter on myself before I left the house. Hmm, now how to make myself 10 feet tall . . .

As someone who has been a member of an atheist forum for several years now, I gotta agree. I have arrived at the conclusion that far too many atheists really only care about science because it is, to their thinking, the polar opposite of mysticism, which they live to look down on. I fully confess that I have been…

And that, ladies and gents, is what we call a Pyrrhic victory.

Hmm, not bad, but I would've included Forbidden Planet at least, and maybe Children of Men and Gattaca. But these lists are always more about the author than they are about the quality of the films anyway. Still, I agree with most of your choices. :)

I'm a big fan of Virgil Finlay as well. I am aspiring to duplicate his drawing style, but he is simply too good.

Oh, wow, yes! Thanks!

Your description of having to go back and read certain passages/stories again reminds me of Robert Aickman. I think it's a crime that his work isn't better known and better appreciated than it is. I find myself going back and rereading his stories right after I've just read them because I know I've missed something,…

It is my favorite movie, bar none. I had bought the graphic novel adaptation before I got to see the movie, and it completely changed my life. I was 10 when the film came out, the prime age for stuff like that. It is such a beautiful and mythic film in so many ways. I wish I could afford to design one of the rooms…

Yeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is all. :)

Oh, okay. Yeah, after viewing it I think it is too.

Yeah, well, we are all a quivering mass of cognitive and social biases, including many so-called scientists (this is not to suggest there aren't any good ones out there, but there are also a ton of bad ones), and cultivating a logical and evidence-driven mind is something that we must all constantly strive for, no…

We went for the essence of what the mythology was, and tried to make them more elemental myths.

In the afterword, Boris Strugatsky explains that there are worse things than ideological censors — there are the literary gatekeepers who want every work of fiction to be banal and reassuring, never forcing the reader to go outside his or her comfort zone.