9. Every solar system has one planet with criscrossing lines.
8. Death's not a bad lookin' broad.
7. Cosmic beings conjugate the verb "be" differently.
6. If you're really big and strong, you're also probably stupid.
5. If you are haunted by "dark thoughts," you probably have a "strange destiny."
4. Villains don't use "intruments," they use "instrumentality."
3. Astral pathways have little dangling stalagmites beneath them.
2. Religion = bad; Chaos & Order = good.
And the #1 thing I learned from Jim Starlin:
1. If I'm really evil, I get to have an Afro.