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Geek Media Round-Up: December 15, 2009

15 Dec 2009  Media

Art

Epic Misney

  • Check out “Epic Misney” by T Campbell and John Waltrip. Best Marvel/Disney mashup yet!
  • Comic Alliance has posted a gallery of Calvin & Hobbes Covered by Comic Book Artists.
  • Life Magazine has posted a great gallery of Fantasy & Sci-Fi Magazine Art.
  • Make Magazine is offering downloadable papercraft Elder Thing.

Comics

  • TimeLostBatman is a tongue-in-cheek Twitter feed mocking Batman.

Film

  • News: The case against the woman erroneously arrested for “camming” New Moon Pirate has finally been dropped. Check out the reviews of the theater in question.
  • News: Frank Miller announces 300 prequel with plot.
  • News: Indie Producer Using Twitter to Fund Zombie Flick.
  • ChicagoNow counts down The 15 Most Expensive Movies Ever Made in honor of this week’s release of Avatar.
  • Could Tobey Maguire be cast to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit?
  • io9 names its picks for the 20 Greatest SF Movies Of The Past Decade, beginning with one of my personal favorites, Pitch Black.
  • MovieFone looks back at The 15 Worst Christmas Movies Ever.
  • Row Three has compiled a list of the 25 Awesome Characters of the Decade.
  • SciFi Scanner names the The Six Most Prolific Video Game Movie Actors.
  • The World in the Satin Bag explains Why Avatar Will Suck, and Everyone Will See It Anyway, and they pretty much hit the nail on the head.

Internet

  • Daybreakers has launched a Capture Humans Campaign on Facebook.
  • Here’s a look at the Top 10 Santa Legends From Around the World.
  • The Transfomers Wiki is a surprisingly complete resource about everything related to one of the largest sci-fi franchises that exists to sell toys.

Literature

  • Interview: Fantasy News interviews Joshua Palmatiers, of The Skewed Throne.
  • Interview: Odyssey Workshop interviews Michael Arnzen, author of Play Dead.
  • Interview: Realms of Fantasy interviews Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  • Interview: Stephen King discusses his latest book, Under the Dome.
  • Interview: Suvudu has a little video Q&A with Terry Brooks.
  • Interview: Tynga’s Urban Fantasy Reviews interviews Rachel Caine.
  • News: One in Three Americans Cutting Back on Book Purchases Due to Economy, According to Bowker’s New PubTrack Consumer Survey.
  • News: Top Author Shifts E-Book Rights to Amazon.com.
  • Books Worth Reading offers A Post-Apocalyptic Reading List, beginning with Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse.
  • Michael Weinberg asks What Do Ebooks, Zombies, and Copyright Terms Have in Common Besides this Headline?
  • The New York Times feels that by opposing the ebook, Wary Book Publishers Are Fighting the Future, but isn’t that always the way with the established media?

Television

  • Premium Hollywood remembers 15 Sci-Fi Series That Deserved A Longer Run, but, surprisingly, Firefly isn’t number one.

Video Games

  • GeekDad maintains that Aion MMO Is More Than WoW With Wings.
  • Some gamers are debating the merits of boycotting a video game based on Orson Scott Card’s Empire, but others are asking what it would accomplish.



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