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Geek Media Round-Up: January 16, 2013

16 Jan 2013  Media

Art

Futurama Propaganda

  • Brand new Avengers concept art takes us inside S.H.I.E.L.D.’s hardware!
  • Futurama Propaganda Posters
  • When Gordon Met Chell is a fan film that honestly deserves its own video game franchise.

Comics

  • Interview: Dark Horse profiles the prolific letterer Nate Piekos as he works on the continued adventures of Francesco Francavilla’s The Black Beetle.
  • All about the all-female X-Men relaunch.
  • These are the 500 best selling single issues of 2012, according to Diamond

Cross-Media

  • Zombies, and Why We Love Them

Film

  • Interview: Anthony Mackie spoke to MTV about his work and costume on Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
  • Interview: Emma Stone talks about returning for Spider-Man 2
  • Interview: In case you missed it, Entertainment Weekly’s interview with James Mangold about The Wolverine is a must read.
  • Interview: Mark Millar spoke to Sci-Fi Now about Josh Trank‘s Fantastic Four reboot: “The Ridley Scott moments, and the Fantastic Four really are jaw-dropping in the same way you feel when you saw Alien for the first time. There’s some moments in this – not to be specific – that are actually gonna be phenomenal on screen and stuff you haven’t seen in a superhero movie before.”
  • ScreenCrave spoke to Ryan Gosling about whether or not he’d play a superhero. He seemed open to Flash but said the following: “Drive was my attempt at the superhero movie. I had a costume and everything. The scorpion jacket. It was like my cape. It was like the idea of a guy that had seen too many superhero movies and then decided that he was going to make himself one.”
  • Interview: The Toughest Scene I Wrote: an interview with Wreck-It Ralph Screen Writers Jennifer Lee and Phil Johnston
  • The 2012 Razzie Nominations are in.
  • 10 Excrutiatingly Awful Movie Posters
  • 10 Random Acts of Kindness That Will Restore Your Faith in Hollywood
  • Bleeding Cool thinks Emma Stone is actually accidentally revealing she doesn’t like the script for the next Spider-Man.
  • Screen Rant recaps The Dark Knight Trilogy in three minutes

Internet

  • College Humor gives Lost the old-school RPG treatment. (Spoiler-ish)

Literature

  • Interview: Fantasy Literature interviews Patrick Rothfuss
  • Interview: The Qwillery chats with Sean Pidgeon, author of Finding Camlann
  • Interview: Tor.com interviews Kameron Hurley of Rapture
  • Check out Neil Gaiman’s Chu’s Day on the Harper Collins website.
  • Is There a Right Age to Read a Book?
  • The Magician and the Ogre, an experiment in point of view
  • You like Fantasy Maps? We got Fantasy Maps

Science

  • Children send Neil deGrasse Tyson and others hate mail over Pluto’s demotion.

Television

  • Interview: Guillermo Del Toro spoke to MTV about the frustration over the slow pace developing the Hulk TV show.
  • News: Neil Gaiman Apparently Working On Another Doctor Who Project – And Probably Not For The Eleventh Doctor
  • How Intel Will Build the Holodeck

Video Games

  • 5 Reasons Why Total War: Rome II Could Be The Best Game Of 2013
  • There’s a Firefly-esque MMO in the works. Being built by fans.

Writing

  • 8 Signs You Were Meant To Be A Writer
  • Becoming a Writer…
  • Basic Training for Writers
  • Fight for What’s Right: Moral Causes in Fantasy Worlds
  • If You Can’t Find a Writer’s Group, Join a Forum
  • H.P. Lovecraft’s Advice to Young Writers: Read the King James Bible and develop a love for unusual words



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