The New York Times pays some attention Russel T. Davies, and brings to the masses what was once a cult phenomenon:
In the last three and a half years he has built “Doctor Who,” “Torchwood” and another spinoff, “The Sarah Jane Adventures,” into Britain’s most successful homegrown drama franchise. Mr. Davies recently announced that he would step down as executive producer and head writer of “Doctor Who” at the end of 2009, in order to pursue other projects (he won’t say what they are). But at a time when young …

Sometimes Science Fiction doesn’t have to be a story.
Sometimes it can just be an object:

Looks like all the MST3K alumni will be getting together for a panel at Comicon.
We now have full confirmation of the upcoming panel at Comic-Con in San Diego, Friday, July 25, 7:15 p.m.
On the panel will be: Trace Beaulieu, Paul Chaplin, Frank Conniff, Bill Corbett, Joel Hodgson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, Bridget Nelson, Mike Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl and J. Elvis Weinstein. Wow.
The moderator will be Patton Oswalt.

Wow.  I think it’s going to be awesome, and I’m going to do everything I possibly can to be there. I really can’t …

As a young kid I didn’t really get Jack Kirby.  His work seemed too “far out” and “wild” for a “liitle tyke” such as myself. I wanted entertainment, not big ideas, and Jack’s book were full of them. 
Most of what I read were the Marvel stuff he was going in the mid-seventies. Books like The Eternals, and his amazingly weird Captain America series.
As I grew up I started to realize how much my own mind had been “blown open” by those Kirby comics of my youth. Ultimately I got …