The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Check out DZine Press’ Gallery of 2D Illustration Concept Art.
• Damon, Carl and a Polorbear has some great Lost-inspired fan art, including a really trippy VW Bus.
• I think these Minimalist movie posters on Flickr are brilliant, especially the one for The Shining. One day, I am SO going to put carpet like that in my house.

Comics

• CBR has compiled a gigantic list of the Most Iconic Comic Covers and organized them by character.
• Comic Alliance names Five Action Movie Origin Stories that ought to get the same treatment as Die Hard did in the recently released “Die Hard: Year One.”
• Over at MTV, Joss Whedon confirms Buffy: Season Nine!
• Under the Giant Penny is a blog about collecting and enjoying Batman memorabilia.

Film

• Interview: Harold Ramis Talks Ghostbusters 3.
• Interview: Tarantino once again reaffirms that there will be a Kill Bill Volume 3.
• Entertainment Weekly counts down the top 25 Butt-Kicking Babes of Entertainment, starting with Summer Glau.
• The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse has come up with a list of 10 Directors who NEED to make a Zombie flick.
• John Scalzi names his picks for The Best and Worst Television Adaptations of SciFi Classics, to which I would personally add both BattleStar Galactica and Max Headroom, though those may fall under the heading of “backdoor pilot.”
• The LA Times explains How Bruce Willis got a celluloid face-lift for Surrogates.
• The SciFi Squad chooses The Top Ten Future Sports from Movies, but forgets the cult classic Robot Jox, starring Dennis Quaid!
• The Telegraph reports on The low-budget movie phenomenon and names 5 cheapies that shook the world, including The Blair Witch Project and Halloween.
• Unreality picks The Top 10 Artifically Intelligent Characters in Movies, with HAL coming in at number 1.

Internet

• G4’s Kevin Pereira & Olivia Munn’s have a great Twilight Spoof for everyone out there who’s sick of sparkly vampires.
• Gunaxin has posted a list of 10 Science Fiction Concepts Ruined by Human Nature, to which I would add Holodecks.
• With Halloween approaching, GeekDad suggests 10 Cheap & Geeky Costumes.
• Wow. Google doesn’t think a whole lot of comics. You’d think the aggregate of millions of Geeks search the web would be more positive.

Literature

• Interview: Cory Doctorow Talks About the Future of the Novel.
• Interview: Iain Banks talks with Nerd World.
• Interview: Stomping Yeti talks with Tim Pratt, author of Spell Games.
• Interview: Terry Pratchett discusses his latest work, Unseen Academicals.
• Interview: Vincent McCaffrey discusses his debut novel, Hound.
• Interview: Why Paolo Bacigalupi feels it’s time for sci-fi to change.
• News: Literary classic Little Women being remixed with werewolves.
• The ebookTest has posted a list of The Eleven Axioms of 21st Century Book Publishing that publishers should really take note of. [via Electrical Alphabet]
• Millions does an excellent job picking The Best Fiction of the Millennium (So Far).
• Publishing Perspectives offers up a suggestion on How to Turn Video Gamers into Readers (Millions at a Time).
• Simon & Schuster introduces Digital Books with Video called “Vooks“

Video Games

• I’d like to say that remember when I used to get this excited over Super Mario Bros. 2, but honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited over anything.
• Massively has posted new images from the upcoming The Star Trek MMO World.
• Unreality has rounded up a gallery of 10 Street Fighter in Real Life Vidoes.