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Geek Media Round-Up: February 12, 2013

12 Feb 2013  Media

Art

Quilted Typography

  • Blood Elf cosplay
  • Calvin & Hobbes In The Real World
  • Portal, Skyrim, Star Trek, Star Wars, and World of Warcraft Valentines cards.
  • Superhero Noir Posters
  • Video Game Soap

Comics

  • 10 Awful Comic Book Movies That Must Never Be Made
  • Do Superheroes Still Matter?
  • Does the West Dismiss Graphic Storytelling as Second Class?
  • Female, Muslim, and mutant: Muslim women in comic books
  • The Safe Haven of Batman
  • Why Asia is Obsessed with Graphic Novels and Comics

Cross-Media

  • The 10 Most Incompetent Space Captains in the Universe
  • Watch Out For That First Step – It’s A Doozy: The Top 10 Time Loop Stories

Film

  • Interview: Bruce Willis and Jai Courtney Talk A Good Day to Die Hard
  • Interview: Bryan Singer On The Future Of Nightcrawler
  • 10 Gaping Plot-Holes Hollywood Thought You’d Miss
  • 10 Video Game Cameos We Want To See In Wreck-It Ralph 2
  • 48 hidden images in “Black Swan”
  • 50 Minor Star Wars Characters Who Need Movies
  • The heist always goes wrong – ten of the best heist movies ever made
  • How ‘Planet Hulk’ & ‘World War Hulk’ Could Factor Into Marvel’s Phase 2 & 3
  • Iron Man 3: 5 Post-Credits Cameos We’d Like To See
  • Prepare To See Even More Films In 48FPS
  • Top 20 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movie WTF? Moments

Internet

  • Felicia Day reads poetry…about video games.

Literature

  • Interview: Chuck Wendig interviews Laura Lam of Pantomime.
  • Interview: Ian Tregillis in conversation with Charlie Stross on The Laundry Files
  • Interview: Gail Carriger, author of Etiquette and Espionage
  • Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews James K. Decker of The Burn Zone.
  • Interview: Six-Question Sex Interview with Sean Beaudoin of The Infects.
  • Interview: Sword & Laser interviews Brandon Sanderson of A Memory of Light.
  • News: Fantasy Fiction Writers to Pose for Charity Calendar
  • 1984: George Orwell’s road to dystopia
  • How Much Should eBooks Cost?
  • Is Science Killing Science Fiction?
  • What does it mean to ‘respect the reader’ in today’s digital age?
  • When Writers meet their Debut Books
  • Why Traditional Publishing Is Really In A ‘Golden Age’

Science

  • Announced Wednesday by Harvard scientists, the new planet is about 76 trillion miles away, a distance that may seem impossibly far, but Harvard astronomer Courtney Dressing characterized the gap as just “a stroll in the park.” Sci-fi knew that all along

Television

  • Interview: AMC viewers interview Kevin Smith.
  • Interview: Peter Sciretta appeared on The Drill Down podcast to talk about why Netflix’s House of Cards release model is not good for business or the consumer.
  • News: Amazon to stream CBS show based on Stephen King novel
  • News: Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Episode to be shot in 3D
  • News: Game over for G4! NBC Universal reboots video game channel as Esquire
  • The 10 Greatest Videogames Based On TV Shows
  • First intriguingly brief video peek at the set of Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Myths about Joss Whedon (that keep non-Whedonistas away).

Video Games

  • 10 Terrifying Gaming Moments That Kept You Up At Night
  • Crashing helicopters? Infinite enemies? Do games rely on too many tropes?
  • The fight to open up the Grammy Awards to the game biz
  • Halo’s four key beliefs.
  • Is Video Game Addiction a Real Thing?
  • PS4: 7 Things We Hope To See In Sony’s Next-Gen Console
  • Xbox 720: 7 Things We Hope To See In Microsoft’s Next-Gen Console

Writing

  • 5 Ways To Liven Up Description
  • 11 Traits Of Highly Successful Writers
  • One Writer’s Personal Writing Checklist By Mark Charan Newton
  • Setting Dumps: How To Avoid Them
  • Why Self Publish?
  • Writing In The Coffee Shop



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