I went to a Catholic high school and our rules on curricula literature weren't this strict. I remember reading Gulliver's Travels (in which Gulliver rides a woman's nipple while in the land of the giants), Huck Finn (in which the N-word is used repeatedly), The Scarlet Letter (in which adultery is, like, the main plot…

I don't care one whit about this article (or 3-D for that matter), but that painting of Jeff Goldblum is AMAZING.

Mmmm...brains. Brains! I mean, I love io9!

I don't know if I would call Steamboy a "comeback" — it was a pretty weak film overall. Also, no mention of J. Michael Straczynski's Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future!

Well, this fulfills my WTF quotient for the day.

I can see my house from here!!

Can't we all just agree that, regardless of size, brains are delicious?

Gorgeous!

I, too, have a soft spot for the Guy Pearce Time Machine film. I also mistakenly thought that I Am Legend was pretty decent ... until I read the source material and realized how badly the film messed up.

And didn't he come up with the concept for Hitchhikers while lying drunkenly in a field? ::sarcastically:: Perhaps there should have been a section in this article about writing and alcohol.

The problem with first-time authors who do find success with something clever is that very few can repeat that success over subsequent books. As a writer, you're not much without the fundamentals. Great article!

Yes, I didn't realize it was her until reading the comments (though, admittedly, the hairpiece and cat paw on her dress should have given it away).

Hahaha, brilliant!

Nos. 4 & 5 look sort of similar to Yoshitaka Amano's work for Final Fantasy VI. For some reason, the girl with the octopus reminds me of Terra on the Magitek Armor.

I can haz TV show?

Why FOX and not a network that would appreciate the series like SyFy or HBO? Or even AMC — I would love to see them do something solid with sci-fi or fantasy.

@CaptainCynic: " I used the DVD copy, but paused it at the appropriate time and explained that Han shot first."

Where's the chainsaw add-on?

@MyNameIsTooAwesome: Hahahahahahahaha!!!!

"Traditional cemeteries take up space that will never be gained back in the future." Clearly, someone's never heard of grave robbing.