By: Joshua Glenn

We’re actually the results of an experiment that went halfway right.

By: Adam McGovern

He couldn’t have been more perfect if he’d been put together in a lab.

By: John Hilgart

Detail of a panel from PLANET COMICS (1949)

By: Adam McGovern

A panel from Jack Kirby’s NEW GODS (1971) haunts Adam McGovern.

By: Greg Rowland

Nimoy vs. the Vulcan Sub-Presence Manifestation Utility.

By: Matthew Battles

Artist Ward Shelley dissects the genre.

By: Tom Nealon

His Dirk Gently is insufferable, wrongheaded, and largely hopeless.

By: Douglas Wolk

Douglas Wolk on a panel from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1977)

By: Glen David Gold

Glen David Gold on a panel from JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (1961)

By: Josh Kramer

Josh Kramer on a panel from THE FOREVER PEOPLE (1971)

By: Matthew Wells

Matthew Wells on a panel from NEW GODS (1971)

By: Terese Svoboda

Terese Svoboda on a panel from TALES OF SUSPENSE (1961)

By: Matthew Specktor

Matthew Specktor on a panel from THE AVENGERS (1963)

By: Joshua Glenn

Like Tolkien, he has a cordial dislike for allegory.

By: Dean Haspiel

Dean Haspiel on a panel from DEVIL DINOSAUR (1978)