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5. Million dollar investments Perhaps one of the most commonly known facts about comic books is that very old ones tend to be worth a lot of money. Although the label on the cover advertises a...

Sin City If the who-dunnit crime motif, dizzy dames and names like “the girls of old town” were not enough to let you know this story is evoking a version of the noir genre the...

If you happen to be an accident prone, red-headed 17 year old with an unexplainable crosshatch pattern in your hair, chances are you can identify pretty closely with Archie Comics’ own Archie Andrews. For...

In the mid-1980s, there was a movement to make comic books a more serious medium. Titles like Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns were released, kicking off a stylistic trend that suddenly compelled every...

Future Fact No. 1 The planet is not unchanging. We’ve passed the “tipping point,” we’re showing no signs of curtailing our climate effecting behaviour. I barely need to engage my prophetic powers to know that...

Dear Sarah Petz (circa 2012), This is your future self here. Just wanted to send you a letter, letting you know how AWESOME 2042 is. You may be 52, but you are smokkkkiinnnn hot. You run...

What constitutes a long-lived, healthy life? What is the ideal age to live to: 80, 90, 100? Assuming you remain in good biological and mental health, why stop at 100? These numbers are simply manifestations...