If your life had a face

As Dave Weigel tweeted earlier, between Amy Pond, Knives Chau and Ramona Flowers, 2010 is shaping up as "a banner year for nerd fantasy girls." If there's any common thread, it's that all of these women are far more compelling than the male characters at the centre of their respective tales.

Also: Knives Chau is seventeen years old, apparently.