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Geek Media Round-Up: June 28, 2012

28 Jun 2012  Media

Art

Nagai Hideyuki

  • 3D Illusory Sketches by Nagai Hideyuki
  • Eye of Sauron Cake
  • A History of Manga
  • Nathan Fillion as you’ve never seen him
  • Surviving the World on the Catwoman cover

Comics

  • News: DC Comics Partners With Barnes & Noble For Nook Releases [Direct]
  • 10 Comics Characters Who Debuted Outside Comics
  • The Many Origins of Spider-Man: A History

Cross-Media

  • TV Tropes Deletes Every Rape Trope; Geek Feminism Wiki steps in

Film

  • News: War On Krypton To Be Featured Heavily In MAN OF STEEL
  • The Amazing Spider-Man and the Modern Comic Book Movies
  • The first full trailer for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie remake is here.
  • Upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Aren’t Remakes

Internet

  • Infographic: Know Your Vampire Hunter
  • Deadpool: A Typical Tuesday
  • How to run a game of D&D like Joss Whedon
  • A typical day for Deadpool.

Literature

  • Infographic: US Public Libraries Weather the Storm
  • Interview: Anne Rice discusses The Wolf Gift
  • Interview: Cory Doctorow did a series of interviews with Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson, as part of The Tomorrow Project.
  • Interview: Daniel H. Wilson talks about AMPED, Technology and Cherry 2000.
  • Interview: Kelly Link joins Gary K. Wolfe on The Coode Street Podcast.
  • Interview: How Seanan McGuire Perfected Her Fictional Zombie Virus
  • Epilogue is a humble exploration of the future of the world of print.
  • Is it Dystopia? A fool-proof flow chart for de-coding the genre.
  • it’s hard out here: “”Traditional publishing never worked, it was an industry ruled by chance and blind luck. It’s demise will be the best thing that’s ever happened to authors as the royalty system is rearranged and bureaucratic fat is removed from the system.”

Science

  • The Avengers Homework Assignments
  • Does Science Fiction Hurt Science?
  • How The Science Gets Into Sci-Fi
  • Reviving Extinct Species May Not Be Science Fiction
  • Scientists Invent Particles That Will Let You Live Without Breathing

Technology

  • An Idiot’s Guide to Teleportation
  • Paper Industry feeling eBook Pressure

Television

  • News: Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion Set for ‘Firefly’ Anniversary Panel
  • 10 Badass LGBTQ Characters From Television
  • 20 Things We Love About Battlestar Galactica
  • Do you ship JohnLock? It’s only obvious.
  • Watch Colbert Mock “Pixar’s Gay Agenda”

Video Games

  • Infographic: A Look Back at 40 Years of Atari
  • The new Mass Effect 3 extended ending DLC is available, and there’s a new ending on top of the three other very disappointing ones
  • Pong! Atari marks 40 years of gaming.
  • Six Female Characters that Do It Right

Writing

  • D. S. Morgan on Writing Humorous Science Fantasy
  • How Novels Are Like Board Games



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