The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Detroit’s RoboCop statue, funded by Kickstarter, is almost complete
• Game of Thrones Houses as Corporations
• NASA’s Retro Drawings of Humans on Mars
• Speedpainting of Optimus Prime
• Tyrion Lannister Cake

Comics

• Interview: Geoff Johns Talks Future Projects, Comic Book Day
• How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library

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Art

• Avengers kittehs
• Hilarious 1980s Star Trek Illustrations
• The Ladies of Doctor Who
• Watch the 6-Second ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Homemade Vine Trailer
• Xenomorph Balloon Sculpture

Comics

• Comics Breaking the Fourth Wall
• Top 10 Best Comic Book Villains!
• Your Guide to Summer Comic Movies

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Comics

• Interview: DC Women interviews the first woman to write Batman in a long while.
• 10 Comic Book Characters Long Overdue for Their Own Video Games
• 10 Comic Book Writers Turned Prose Pros
• If You Make a Bed of Comics, You’ll Have to Sleep in It

Cross-Media

• Infographic: 50 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT STAR TREK
• 13 pop-culture attempts to make puppets appealing to adult audiences
• Star Trek’s History of Progressive Values — And Why It Faltered on LGBT Crew

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An incredibly interesting examination of the motivation behind playing games. It’s more complex and significant than what you might think!

Art

• Check out this Mini Death Star handcrafted from a Ping Pong Ball
• New Hope opening in Minecraft
• Portrait of the Joker made of movie quotes.
• Simpsons Movie Poster Parodies
• Starship Enterprise Transformer

Comics

• Gawker wrote about the seven most essential Iron Man comic books.
• Grant Morrison tells the story of Batman’s life to Kevin Smith. With illustrations.
• In celebration of the new Iron Man 3 film hitting theaters today, Oakland-based web designer and front-end developer Ross Patton design a marvelous interactive timeline for Wired Underwire displaying 14 of “The Greatest Iron Man Armors of the Last 50 Years.”

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Film

• 7 Classic Movies That Almost Had Absurdly Dark Endings
• 10 Actors Who Would Be Awesome In The Marvel Cinematic Universe
• 10 Movie Endings With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed
• The Hollywood Reporter ran a editorial pitching Man of Steel should be rated PG.

Literature

• Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Brian McClellan of Promise of Blood
• Interview: SF Squeecast interviews Cherie Priest of The Inexplicables
• Interview: Tor Books UK interviews China Miéville of Railsea
• 30 Books That Should Be Turned Into Films
• Ebook anxieties increase as publishing revolution rolls on. Amazon’s bid for rights to sell secondhand ebooks adds another layer of complexity to a world where the certainties of print culture are dissolving.
• Pew Study: Why Parents Love Libraries

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Comics

• Interview: Ramon Perez talks Wolverins and the X-Men at C2E2 2013
• Interview: The writer for Detective Comics talks about the ‘Law and Order’ of the Batman comics at C2E2 2013.
• The Top Ten Strongest Non-Superpowered Women in Comics
• Which Comics Should I Get? Your Free Comic Book Day Cheat Sheet

Cross-Media

• 10 Characters Who Got More Interesting After They Died

Film

• Interview: Penelope Austin Lands Song In Star Trek Into Darkness
• Interview: Damon Lindelof: Star Trek is hard science fiction, not science fantasy
• Interview: IM3: Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rebecca Hall & Guy Pearce
• Interview: Shane Black and Kevin Feige Build a Better Iron Man
• Interview: Speaking to Desde Hollywood, Avengers Assemble director and Marvel Phase 2 mastermind Joss Whedon teased a more long-term plan for Marvel Comics villain Thanos, hinting that we might have to wait until the third ensemble film to see the Mad Titan defeated.

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