The Great Geek Manual

Comics

• Mania attempts to decide Who are The Greatest Comic Writers of All-Time?

Film

• Den of Geek reviews 10 Surprise deaths in Blockbuster Movies. (Spoilers Ahead)
• Here’s what it might look like if David Lynch had directed Return of the Jedi.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Listen to “American Nightmare” by Lilah Wild at Well Told Tales.
• Free Fiction: Listen to “The Dreaming Wind” by Jeffrey Ford at PodCastle.
• Free Fiction: Listen to “Hangman” by Abby “Merc” Rustad at Dunesteef.
• Free Fiction: Read “Deviations: Appetite” by Elissa Malcohn at Manybooks.
• Are you embarrassed about holes in your literacy? Here’s How to Lie About Books.
• Author Jim C. Hines runs down his favorite answers to the much-dreaded question Is Your Book Appropriate for My Child?
• Bloggers name their favorite underrated authors at Grasping for the Wind.
• The L.A. Times discusses Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane. “Before Conan, there was Kane, a Puritan swordsman on a restless search for justice.”
• There may be a lot of fan boys in trouble out there, because Manga Could Get You 15 Years in Prison…More at Wired.com.

Television

• The latest news is that Joss Whedon is trying to land former Firefly co-star Summer Glau a role in Season 2 of Doll House. If there is any justice in the world, rooms full of people will die.
• Miss Geeky recounts the Top 30 Most Infamous TV Show Opening Voiceovers, culminating in numero uno, Babylon 5.

Video Games

• Victim of Culture shares a few nuggets of video game wisdom: Everything I need to know about Halo I learned at summer camp.

Writing

• Where I Write is an awesome site where you can see photos of Fantasy & Science Fiction Authors in their Creative Spaces. Check out the Margret Weiss shot. It’s cool, but I somehow expected swords and maces to be litter about the space.