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Geek Media Round-Up: January 1, 2009

1 Jan 2009  Media

Comics

  • ComicBook Resources names the Best 100 Comics of 2008. Yes, the top 100. I don’t think I read sixty comics the entire year, which means that there’s about fifty on this list that have been transferred to my shopping list.
  • Lists of the Best Comics of 2008 from: Comixology, Creative Loafing, Daily Cross Hatch, Newsrama, NPR, the Village Voice, and Wizard.
  • Newsarama interviews Dan DiDio on matter of the DC Universe.

Film

  • The latest Batman rumor is that Philip Seymour Hoffman may play the Penguin.
  • SciFi Wire takes a behind-the-scenes look at Coraline. The work that went into producing the “The first handmade film shot in 3D.”
  • Slashfilm is confident that Warner Brothers won’t kill the Harry Potter series early.

Internet

  • FBTB Forums announces the winners of its Steam Wars contest.
  • Hold off on the wrist-slitting! io9 provides you Five Reasons To Stay Alive Until 2010 At Least.
  • io9 rounds up a gallery of Costumed Crimefighters Who Share the Spirit’s Sense of Style.
  • Slice of SciFi takes a moment to remember SciFi luminaries who died in 2008.

Literature

  • Lists of the Best Books of 2008 from: Adventures in Reading, Amazon.com, BookGasm, The Detroit Examiner, Fantasy Hotlist, io9, Publisher’s Weekly, Stephen King, Torque Control,

Television

  • SF Signal has posted a somewhat bogus list of The Top 8 Time Travel Television Episodes. It dubiously omits Dr. Who episodes and chooses “Yesterday’s Enterprise” rather than “All Good Things…” as the STNG episode of choice.

Video Games

  • The Escapist names the Best Videogame Trailers Of 2008.
  • Lists of the Best Video Games of 2008 from: Fidget, GamesRadar, Metacritic, New York Times, Salt Lake Tribune, Seattle Times, SFGate, Showcase, and UK Telegraph.



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