This is of course the real reason — a cinematic device used in the first 'Alien' to make the audience go "WTF" when Ash started sweating, and then spewing white fluid.

How very true. Every time I see an article trumpeting that Lindsay Lohan will pose in Playboy, or even this very article about the Walking Dead mini comic in Playboy, the only thing I can think is — isn't there a more valid magazine out there that isn't grasping at the fading ghost of its own relevance to feature…

All that money spent on making the robots look lifelike, but Weyland couldn't just dye that milky white "blood" a more reddish color?

You mean the classic days when the Doctor's companions didn't all fall in love with him, when there didn't have to be an over-the-top melodramatic "sassy older woman" character in every other episode and there weren't awkward gay marriage references (not that there's anything wrong with that) shoehorned in on a…

Speaking of personality-test quackery, let's not forget the Scientology standby for luring the uninformed off the sidewalk via the "Oxford Capacity Analysis", which - surprise!- has absolutely no link to Oxford University whatsoever.

I'm so glad you mentioned that. I started to look for the dialogue between Moebius and Miyazaki when I first saw this article. R.I.P. Moebius. I hope Miyazaki is feeling well these days.

"We know, for example, that most dinosaurs probably had proto-feathers"

Funny you should say that, since I grew up in Florida and we had an equally giant, spiky monstrous tree called a "Monkey Puzzle Tree" (Araucaria araucana) in our front yard. It too had really big cones that would be quite bad for your cranial integrity if they fell on you.

The Ents will have their revenge.

There's actually a real robot wet bar out there called baR2-D2. I have sampled his wares myself.

I'm still trying to figure out why IDW is using the 1993 MechaGodzilla design instead of the 2002-03 Kiryu MechaGodzilla. The '93 MG was a great design, don't get me wrong, but it had a bit too much of the "thunder-thighs" look that the early '90s Godzilla also had. The millenial version of MG is more sleek and…

Meesa not going to pay money to see Phantom Menace again. 3D or not. Ever.

Actually, the flat-faced Steve Ditko comic version of the Lizard only existed for the one origin appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #6. From ASM #44 onward, the Lizard was drawn with an elongated lizard snout in the comics.

Good point, — I was thinking of actual 4-fingered dinosaurs like Ceratosaurus or Edmontosaurus, but I forgot about good old Stegron and his very un-Stegosaurus-like hands and feet.

I believe you're thinking of these guys, the Blemmyes:

I'm still trying to figure out why the images of the movie version Lizard that I've seen show him with four fingers on each hand.

Sorry, I can't help it ...

Is it just me, or does it seem that the little Lego Hobbits are NOT barefoot?

Butch Deadlift! Slab Squatthrust! Stump Chunkman! Punch Rockgroin! Bob Johnson...!

So the underground Dark Smurfs have places to live - duh.