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Geek Media Round-Up: August 13, 2012

13 Aug 2012  Uncategorized

Comics

  • The Increasingly Blurred Line Between DC and Vertigo
  • Sex in Comic! The top 100 strangest, suggestive and steamy vintage comic book panels of all time!

Film

  • Interview: David Duchovny explains why last X-Files movie tanked.
  • Interview: The UK’s Telegraph has an in-depth profile of Star Trek sequel actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
  • The 100 Greatest Maniacal Movie Laughs assembled by the maniacal James Chapman who previously collected Movie Titles in Movies]
  • 100 Wonderful and Terrible Movies That Never Existed
  • Avengers: The Down Side Of Up: Why the success of The Avengers and the choice of director might hurt future genre movies and comic book movies in particular.
  • Everybody likes superhero movies… So where do you go if you don’t? [SLYT]

Internet

  • College Humor imagined what websites as the seven deadly sins.
  • Comedy Is Scared. Are You Happy Now, Internet?
  • Life on the Internet: a beautiful piece on what it’s like to live life “on” the internet.

Literature

  • Interview: AboutSF talks with Kim Stanley Robinson about his latest book, the well-reviewed 2312. (Podcast)
  • Interview: Sdventures in Scifi Publishing sat down with Glen Cook at Conquest to discuss his illustrious career.
  • Interview: Jim Hines Kicks Off New Series with Libriomancer
  • News: Forbes released its list of top-earning authors of 2011. To no one’s surprise, science fiction and fantasy authors dominate the list, taking nine of the 15 slots.
  • News: George Takei is writing a book — it will be released electronically, for only 10 bucks. The only rational response? Shut up and take our money.
  • News: JK Rowling is withholding her next book from some overseas publishers over piracy fears. While the effectiveness of that is debatable, I can’t wait for the inevitable Chinese knock-offs like the ones made for Harry Potter, assuming this new series is as popular as her previous one.
  • News: Neil Gaiman and Felicia Day are narrating a fantasy audiobook by Ellen Kushner, and we kind of can’t wait.
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Science

  • Humans on Mars: The Craziest, Weirdest, and Most Plausible Plans in History
  • In 1996, just months before he died, astronomer/astrophysicist/author Carl Sagan recorded this message to future colonists living on Mars.

Technology

  • This full-resolution self-portrait shows the deck of NASA’s Curiosity rover from the rover’s Navigation cameras.

Television

  • Interview: Q&A with ‘Doctor Who’ stars: The five Doctors
  • News: BBC Officially Announce Their New Drama About The Genesis Of Doctor Who, An Adventure In Space And Time
  • News: The opening episode of Doctor Who’s seventh season will be previewed at the British Film Institute’s Southbank center, followed with a Q&A with the cast.
  • Small Firefly reference in another Gutters webcomic. Try to spot it on your own.
  • What to expect from Joss Whedon’s upcoming Marvel TV series, you know, aside from AWESOME (and Eliza Dushku).

Video Games

  • News: ‘AMC The Walking Dead Social Game’ seeking brains in open beta



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