the links came marching five by five

On costume color in DC comics

Futurama: Super Happy Fun Show - a picture (click on it for the close-up)

Claw the Unconquered: Cliché and the Perfect Genre Piece - about a comic, but perhaps useful to the non-comic reading sword & sorcery fan

Loren K Wiseman on Traveller and Star Wars

Those Magnificent Mandarins in Their Flying Machines - colonial airship sci-fi from a different empire than usual