I love the Hyperion Cantos! Such a brilliant series. I've always felt that Simmons writes for people who are well read.

On the off chance that Dan Simmons was correct in his story, "Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in Hell," that Dante's version of hell is the accepted one, having committed this book to memory has given me a good escape plan to work with. Plus it has one of the best opening lines ever:

I adore the world of Dredd. Back in the 80's, I collected the entire first run.

As for Panem/THG, there is little real attention paid in the books to the long history of its world. It is an empire in decay and at the moment of the books, is 75 years past an uprising with no real sense of how long prior to that uprising…

It does!

Which dYAstopia setting do you believe makes some kind of sense? For that matter, aside from Huxley and Orwell, which dystopias do you have a preference for?

What goes up the chimney down, but not down the chimney up?

I loved that little black floppy record :)

Of course, there's always...

There is a lot of depth to the comic that goes beyond the adventures of Nexus. I love the politics that develop among the refugees on Ylum.

Not enough people have read this comic. It still stands as my favorite ever for both story and art.

Horatio Hellpop's father, a dictator, destroyed his planet and fled with his family and ended up on Ylum. While Horatio was growing up, he was plagued by nightmares of his father's crimes that grew increasingly painful. His father placed him in a special tank, created by the Merc, who eventually informed Horatio that…

Didn't we learn this from previous Marvel outings such as Thor: The Dark World, which was a very funny film (earned 85 million it's opening weekend)?

Fuck Mike Myers. Fuck everything about this movie. They got nothing right. Nothing! Casting this hack as an iconic character and then letting him have his filthy way with the Cat...Grrrrr.

Yes, Spot the Kitty :)

A different kind of friendship, but certainly amongst the greatest of all time...

Data's best friend was Kitty :)

Edmund and his freaking Turkish Delight and middle child angst.

My first thought at the end of this disaster was that they managed to slip just below Batman and Robin for worst comic book film. I stand by that.

And some superstitions are just silly...

The Doctor Donna!