Because my mother reads this blog, I am not going to say whether I have ever downloaded comics online illegally or not. Still, I have friend...

In a world of people that make movies as products without passion, it's great to see someone like James Cameron. With Titanic and the Ab...

There was a time when "Return of the Jedi" was considered the worst of the Star Wars movies. I can only bitterly laugh at how naiv...

Et tu, Margaret? Et tu? Don't tell me that you, too - one of the few politicians with a science background and a degree in chemistry - a...

To promote the final series of "Lost," several episodes were made of an "In Search Of..." style late seventies/early eig...

It's frustrating sometimes to know people with a singleminded devotion to a single topic, because it's all they ever go on about. On...

I was recently reading Edmond Hamilton's "Star Kings," a pulpy novel that is easily one of ol' Planet Smasher's best, ...

Now this is something that is downright fascinating. It's a map of the world, but from the Middle Ages, which is interesting because it ...

Anti-science climate-change deniers have a wonderful habit of interpreting out of context discussion within science itself. The fact that sc...

I always thought that crushes on pop stars and matinee idols were beneath me, but I have a real thing for Christina Aguilera. It isn't j...

It's amazing what can make a person just absolutely overjoyed. I always looked forward to getting my first textbooks for a new college s...

Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” was originally intended to be sung by a male performer. Having a woman perform it totally changed...

There was one villain that had the potential to be one of the greatest Fantastic Four foes of all time...the Brute. Introduced in the last s...

One of the great parts about Amazing Stories are the seldom-reprinted back covers, which regularly had some artist's conception of a fut...

Zack Parsons’ “Your Next Door Neighbor is a Dragon!” is a book about a topic that I find interesting, weird internet subcultures, and it de...

Challengers of the Unknown is a comic about a series of four interchangeable men, all armed with their own separate hair color, who all com...

A friend of mine and I were having a conversation about villains in fiction, and I said that one thing that is required is to have an effect...