In 1997, Last Unicorn Games released Dune: Eye of the Storm, the first installment of a Dune collectible card game. These paintings for the game, by artist Mark Zug, offer a gorgeous return to Frank Herbert's world.

It's hard to mention Star Wars and the holidays in the same breath without reliving the horrors of Life Day, but PJ McQuade's witty cards are almost enough to cleanse Wookiee winter rituals from our brains. Now we just imagine Bossk's sleigh pulled by eight tiny tauntauns.

Feast your eyes on Póstumo, aka "The Deck of the Dead." This grisly twist on your traditional 52-card deck is the damn-fine work of Obsidian Abnormal and Darren J. Gendron (the same duo that brings you Hello With Cheese), and it is nothing if not inspired.

Do you take your significant other, for better taste or worse, in Doctor Who reruns and marathon Portal sessions? Do you pledge to re-read Harry Potter together and listen to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio plays on long car trips? Then you might want to send out these beautiful save-the-date cards.

Going a step up from the typical Pokemon cosplay, Don Schwabs created this clever Pikachu trading card costume, which he recently showed off at Melbourne's Supanova Pop Cultcha Expo. Get enough of these costumes together, and you could play through a live-action version of the card game. [Albotas via Fashionably Geek]

Your old Garbage Pail Kids cards could be worth an easy $4,000, thanks to runaway 1980s nostalgia. We recently spotted a Garbage Pail Kids card selling for a monstrous sum over at eBay.

Forget the boring old holiday greeting cards this year, and opt for something a bit more out of this world. We've collected the best science fiction and fantasy-themed holiday cards for 2011, including Doctor Who gags and Game of Thrones direwolf pups!

2010 has set the bar pretty high for holiday-themed art. And now it's our turn to share that joy with you. Here's a collection of the best and the freakiest holiday cards, prints and illustrations. From stuffed Rudolph to Bigfoot.

New Terminator Salvation trading cards showcase a handful of the killer-machine faces that haunt the minds of the resistance fighters of 2018. And there are a few new stills from the movie itself.