If you don't mind them not being vintage, Burroughs's Mars books are all still in print for fairly cheap. If you don't mind ebooks, the first five Mars books are public domain and free on Gutenberg.org. My collection of Mars books (a 1970s hardcover printing with covers by Frank Frazetta) was put together from ebay…

I do love me some Gina Torres and think she'd be a kick-ass Wonder Woman, but for whatever reason (the Photoshopping?), that bottom picture gives me the damn creeps.

"He can wear a bow tie as long as the movie is good."

According to Wikipedia (so you KNOW it's true!), Superman actually gained the ability to fly because of these cartoons! The animators found it too difficult to animate Superman jumping and landing and jumping off again, so they asked if they could just make him fly already, which would be a lot simpler.

Agreed. Never underestimate the power of good public relations. I can't count the number of scientists I've known/read about who said they first became interested in science because of Mr. Wizard, Bill Nye, or Carl Sagan, or even through science fiction like Isaac Asimov, Edgar Rice Burroughs, or (of course) Star…

I have now officially spent way too much time trying to figure out the game mechanics of Pac-Labyrinth up there.

Well, now we know why Tigger's the only one. Turns out it's not so wonderful after all.

Man, no Jersey Devil? The place is right there in the name!

My guess is that by necessity it will be more inspired by the books, in terms of character history and such, due to both the 1939 film and "Wicked" still being under copyright. The presence of bits like the china girl and the talking flying monkey (both right out of the original book) make that seem likely. I do…

It's probably because "Elphaba" and "Nessarose" are copyrighted names and characters from the book and musical "Wicked," while the Wicked Witches of the East and West from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" are public domain, but nameless. This movie's not an adaptation of "Wicked," so they presumably did not pay for the…

My grandmother turned 99 back in July. My wife and I (she 29, me 31) occasionally like to play a game between ourselves called "Grandma Is So Old."

Wow, yeah, you know, from a narrative standpoint I can see why this wasn't put in the episode, but still, it manages to fix just a couple things that had been bothering me. "What about Brian," of course (though what about Amy's parents?), but also giving Rory himself a nice goodbye. I mean, Amy got on in the afterword…

Yup. Anthony was adopted.

Belle and Tiana both marry princes (um, spoilers?), so they become princesses that way. Heck, it's even a plot point and in the title of "The Princess and the Frog."

There are ten characters who are part of the official Disney Princess line, which is all of the characters up there except Merida. They all are princesses either by birth (Aurora, Rapunzel, Snow White, Jasmine, Ariel, and Pocahontas [if you consider "chieftain's daughter" to be the Powhatan version of "princess"]) or…

No, Merida may not be part of the official Disney Princess line, but only ten characters are. To fill out all eleven Doctors you'd need one more, and she's a princess character owned by Disney, so why not?

See, and I really enjoyed the whole movie EXCEPT the ending. The whole movie felt like it was heading towards a "you need to be able to let things go" moral, right up until Victor told the (presumably) dead-for-good Sparky that it was okay if he didn't come back, he was still in Victor's heart. I truly enjoyed nearly…

Young Frankenstein is legitimately one of my favorite movies of all time. It's one of those rare parodies - the only one I can think of offhand, actually - that is simultaneously a hilarious spoof of, a loving homage to, and a genuinely effective sequel to its source material, all while telling a surprisingly good…

Kitty!

Geez, man! Spoilers!