The Great Geek Manual

Art

• This Spider-Man, X-Men and Fantastic 4 Concept Art Shows How Great the Films Could Have Been. *Sigh*
• What would it look like if there were a Joss Whedon themepark?

Comics

• Interview: Buffyfest Interviews Spike: The Devil You Know artist Chris Cross.
• Interview: Writer and artist Neal Adams talks Batman: Odyssey.
• iFanboy names 5 Heroes of Science.

Film

• Interview: ComicBookMovies and JoBlo are reporting rumors from a “trusted source” that Nathan Fillion and Eva Longoria are in final talks to play Dr. Henry Pym and Janet Van Dyne in the Avengers movie.
• News: Over at the LA Times, rumours are suggesting that John Davis of Fox has optioned the film rights to Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi classic The Martian Chronicles.
• io9 remembers 30 post-apocalyptic visions of the 21st Century.
• Little Miss reveals The Difference Between the Cast of Harry Potter and Twilight.
• The SciFi Blog names Sci Fi Spoofs That Should Be in your DVD Collection.

Internet

• SFX names its choices for The Top 10 Evil Twins.

Literature

• Interview: Locus interviews Kit Reed, author of Enclave.
• Interview: The Functional Nerds chat with genre book cover artist & 2010 Hugo nominee John Picacio about creating genre covers, how he became an artist, his work with Pyr, monetizing cover art and the future of the genre cover artist.
• Interview: Yasmine Galenorn talks about her debut novel, Night Myst.
• Can You Have Too Many Books? It’s one of those zen questions, like “what’s the stupidest question you can think of?”
• Could the Hub be the new business model of the future for books and libraries?
• The Guardian discusses Creative writing as literary ‘intervention.’
• The Guardian has compiled a list of The top 100 books of all time that looks like it was written by your English 101 prof.
• Harvard Professors Suggest Summer Reading Picks For Undergrads, but somehow manage to completely omit both Harry Potter and the Twilight Saga.
• Huffington Post suggests how to take librarians off the endangered species list.
• The New York Times takes a look Inside Prison Libraries.
• In Today’s vampire – a needy, neurotic wimp, Neil Gaiman reveals, “My next big novel was going to have a vampire. Now, I’m probably not. They are everywhere, they’re like cockroaches.”
• The Twilight series is cack-handed in execution, bereft of originality, ludicrous in its plots and yet lapped up by hordes. Children’s author Philip Womack asks: if it isn’t the writing, what is it?

Television

• Crave picks The Top 10 TV Characters of the Decade.
• UGO names its choices for The Top 50 Futurama Episodes.
• Sci Fi Wire picks the 32 best quotes from Joss Whedon’s Firefly.