The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Lego Avengers Weapons

Comics

• Interview: Bob Wayne and John Cunningham discuss DC’s Before Watchmen marketing strategies and the departure of Chris Roberson… sort of.
• 6 Ways Iron Man Is Objectively Better Than Batman makes a compelling argument.
• The 11 Best Supervillain Superpowers
• The 25 Greatest Avengers Stories, from Korvac’s Saga to Kang’s Dynasty
• Avengers, Assembled (and Visualized)
• What should we call this age of comics? How about the Electronic Age?

Cross-Media

• Tara, Wesley and 13 other Joss Whedon deaths that broke our hearts. [Spoilers]

Film

• Interview: Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige explains Why the Avengers don’t say their most famous catchphrase in The Avengers
• Interview: ‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’ Director Peter Lord Talks Stop-Motion
• Interview: Ready To Step Into Your Favorite Superhero’s Shoes?
• News: Kick Ass 2 Films This Summer For Release Next May
• News: Universal In Talks To Continue ‘Kick-Ass’ Franchise
• 5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Original Ghostbusters
• Are we being too hard on movie trailers?
• The Avengers: The First Superhero Chick Flick?
• Is ‘Gravity’ Alfonso Cuaron’s Game-Changing Masterpiece? First Impressions.
• io9 picks 10 Best Comic Book Movies of All Time
• Three Cheers for Joss Whedon: King of the Geeks, King of the World!
• Watch the end title sequence from The Avengers.
• Why ‘The Avengers’ Wasn’t the Most Pirated Film Last Week
• What’s next for cast & crew of The Avengers?

Internet

• D20 Lollipop. Want.

Literature

• Interview: Amazing Interview with Lev Grossman of The Magicians
• The M.I.T. Science Fiction Library is one of the three largest publicly available collections of science fiction in the world. Here’s a bit of its history.
• What Will Become of the Paper Book?: How they will evolve in the age of Kindle.
• Why are so many vampire stories so weak?
• Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps

Science

• Avenging Reality: Building The Awesome Universe In Fact And Fiction

Technology

• DARPA plans to place diagnostic nanochip in soldiers
• Intel futurist discusses data’s secret life, ‘ghost of computing’
• The TeleHuman is a life-size, 3D video chat pod straight out of your sci-fi dreams

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