The Great Geek Manual

Comics

• Interview: Are Comic Book Artists the New Rock Stars? Cover artist Dave Johnson thinks so.
• Interview: ‘Batman’ comic book reboot a joy for Greg Capullo
• Interview: Mark Waid talks to NPR’s All Things Considered about Thrillbent and the digital future of comics.
• 75 years of comics in six panels
• Comic books: A Valiant comeback
• Comic books go to Mars

Cross-Media

• A Timeline of Future Events

Film

• News: Marvel To Develop Sci-Fi Movie Franchise With New Guardians Movie
• News: Police Arrest Real-Life Superhero Over Aurora Fears
• The 9 Most Secretly Sci-Fi Movies
• Check out a trailer for a 1930 noir thriller that inspired Bob Kane’s Batman.
• Industry insiders predict Avengers 2 release date.
• Science Fiction Movie Moments that Made Us Believe In Wonder

Internet

• Geek girls unite around games, comics and a Buffy sing-along

Literature

• Infographic: Murder He Wrote: All The Edgar Allen Poe Deaths In One Diagram
• Interview: The Damned Interviews and Fantasy Literature interview Terry Brooks, who discusses his latest book, The Measure of the Magic: Legends of Shannara.
• Interview: The Qwillery interviews K.A. Stewart of A Wolf at the Door.
• Ebooks Outsell Print! Putting Headlines in Context
• The Philosophical Roots of Science Fiction
• What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde
• Why Do Female Authors Dominate Young-Adult Fiction?

Science

• News: NASA lander blows up during test – Cosmic Log: A prototype lander for future moon missions went awry and blew up today during its first free-flight test at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the space agency reported.
• Greg Bear: Why I love Mars

Technology

• Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers
• Elon Musk, the billionaire genius who Tony Stark is based on, Wants to Put Man on Mars in ’12 to 15 Years’ [Video]
• Fan pitches naming SpaceX’s first private spaceship “Serenity”.
• In photos: Curiosity Lands on Mars

Television

• 15 years after Buffy: she influenced pop culture. A lot.
• Joss Whedon’s Marvel tv show: 10 intriguing possibilities.
• Scenes from the Munchiverse: 21 links between unexpectedly shared TV universes
• ‘Walking Dead’ Season Three: A New Poster And Where Zombies Come From!

Video Games

• Felicia Day Unboxes the Guild Wars 2 Collector’s Edition
• The surprising, stealth rebirth of the American arcade

Writing

• On the Awkward but Necessary Role of Technology in Fiction