The Great Geek Manual

Comics

• I’m not wholly certain how accurate this list is, but it makes for interesting contemplation. Your 3D Source names The Top 10 Most Valuable Comic Books In The World.
• Two phrases you never thought you’d see in the same sentence: Comics and Christian Science Monitor.

Film

• Den of Geek looks back at the Top 24 worst special effects of all time.
• Just what you wanted to hear: Terminator Ending “Might Piss Off A Lot Of People”

Literature

• Good news. After years of bemoaning the decline of a literary culture in the United States, the National Endowment for the Arts says in a report that it now believes a quarter-century of precipitous decline in fiction reading has reversed.

Television

• Entertainment Weekly recaps what you need to remember for the upcoming season of Lost to make sense.
• Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs released a poll of the best anime series. A list of The Top 50 Anime Series was posted a while back. Many of the series can be viewed online for free at AnimeBoy.org.
• NY Magazine interviews Michael Emerson (Ben Linus) of Lost.