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This week’s episode, “Camelot/3000,” finds the team flung into the distant future and a not-historically-verified past in search of pieces of the Spear of Destiny. Battles are fought, minds are controlled, and character development is wildly uneven. Antonio Negret directed the episode, which was written by Anderson Mackenzie.

If you're worried about the values that we're passing on to the next generation of megalomaniacal sociopaths, worry no longer. A meteorologist in Austin, TX, received a fan letter from an aspiring supervillain, thanking him for teaching his class about the weather -- an promising not to enslave him when said child becomes supreme Ultra-Lord of the universe...

Crime: Police arrested a 33-year-old man after he allegedly attacked shoppers at a Portland, Ore. Toys 'R' Us with a blue lightsaber toy. The dude apparently resisted arrest and managed to deflect a taser cable before getting tackled and taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation...

Since 1977 Star Wars fans, shackled by the lameness of physics, have only had two options when it comes to lightsaber toys: 1. You can buy a retractable blade made of clear plastic that simulates "unsheathing" or 2. You can buy a solid saber, with a blade that's essentially a light-up tube...

Once in awhile you catch a Batman image so wonderful, you experience what's known as " Simsian Joy" and io9's link to a painting by Andrew Zubko of Batman's improved method of shark dispatching definitely qualifies as one of those occasions...

Having a nerd president is the best. Yesterday Obama was out on the White House lawn for a rally to support his hometown of Chicago in its bid for the 2016 Olympics, an event that included a fencing demonstration where he totally picked up a lightsaber and engaged in mock battle...

I know you're probably a little ODed on reports from Wizard World, but bear with me because I finally figured out how to upload videos. What you're about to see is a performance last weekend by a stage combat troupe calling themselves New York Jedi...