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Geek Media Round-Up: October 10, 2012

10 Oct 2012  Media

Art

Ocean Armor

  • Gruesome Halloween costume ideas from 25 terrifying cosplayers
  • How to make a Chewbacca Domo
  • Mutant X-Muppets defend a world that thinks they’re weirdos
  • This scrapped concept art from Jurassic Park 4 shows off the insane dinosaur commandos that might have been.
  • Wired featured a really cool coloring book for kids called E Is For Electronics. It’s the world’s first open-source, Creative Commons-licensed coloring book and uses famous folks and concepts from electronics.

Comics

  • News: Ph.D. in Batman? First doctorate in comics to be awarded
  • News: Star Trek: TNG clinches new comics line
  • 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Marvel Comics
  • Can Comics Become Legitimate Bestsellers?

Cross-Media

  • The most popular, epic webcomic you’ve never heard of
  • Six Strange Cases of Science Fiction Trademarks
  • Why pop culture is stuck in the recycle bin: remix provocateur Kirby Ferguson

Film

  • Interview: Star Trek Into The Darkness Writer Says Movie Will Melt Your Face
  • Interview: Tim Burton Talks Beetlejuice 2
  • News: ‘Attack The Block’s Joe Cornish Lands ‘Snow Crash’ At Paramount
  • News: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Extended Edition Announced!
  • News: Ms. Marvel Rumored for THE AVENGERS Sequel
  • News: Underworld director Len Wiseman is now officially directing Universal’s The Mummy reboot, being penned by one of Prometheus‘ writers.
  • Michael Bay proves takes being a special effects whore to a whole new level as news breaks that Transformers 4 May Be Headed To Cybertron For “A New Type Of Action” … As Long As The Budget Allows
  • A new The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey poster; this time, it’s Argentinian!
  • Robocop goes full Westboro Baptist in new set pics
  • Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas reads like Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. I never made that connection before.
  • Watch this 22 minute featurette on the making of James Bond Skyfall

Internet

  • News: Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon says that Dr. Horrible 2 might start filming as early as next year. … Promises, promises.
  • The latest hilarious single-topic Tumblr: Memos From Fury
  • NecromAnswers.com: an advice column for amateur necromancers
  • What happens when Neil Gaiman tries to remember his hat.

Literature

  • Interview: Iain M. Banks Revisits The Culture with ‘The Hydrogen Sonata’
  • Interview: Legends of Fantasy chats with Carrie Vaughn
  • Interview: A Revealing Interview With Author Stephen R. Donaldson: “One of the overall themes of The Chronicles: if evil is real, then the costs of standing against evil are also real. Nobody gets out of that struggle unscathed.”
  • Interview: Watch Joe Abercrombie read from Red Country
  • News: Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane – release date announced!
  • Changes for retailers as ebook revolution goes global
  • Damien G. Walter: Science fiction is a global language describing our shared future
  • The Decline of the longevity of Men in the works of JRR Tolkien
  • The eBook – Déjà Vu All Over Again?
  • The Humble eBook Bundle is now active – pay what you want for Neil Gaiman, Corey Doctorow, Mercedes Lackey and more
  • Is William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
  • A Memory of Light Signing-by-Mail from Brandon Sanderson
  • Paper books, digital books, they’re all good
  • Potter fans divided over “Casual Vacancy”

Science

  • Astronomer uncovers the good, bad and WTF science of Prometheus
  • The Best Way to Find Aliens: Look for Their Solar Power Plants. Astronomers search for Dyson Spheres.
  • The very laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible.
  • With The Oatmeal’s help, nonprofit buys property to build a Tesla Museum

Technology

  • Interview: Neil deGrasse Tyson explains which James Bond gadgets could actually work… but spends more explaining why most of them wouldn’t work.
  • Newest Fusion Engine Is Powered On Star Trek Like Dilithium Crystals

Television

  • Interview: Felicia Day sees CW airing ‘Dr. Horrible’ as big victory.
  • Interview: Kevin Smith And His Comic Book Men Return
  • News: Syfy is doing a dystopian Survivor meets Big Brother project called Opposite Worlds. Yet another bad decision in a long line of bad programming.
  • ‘He doesn’t like endings,’ but ultimately Whovians don’t mind
  • The History of DC Comics on TV
  • Is Doctor Who a Religion?
  • SFX picks the Top 25 worst science fiction and fantasy TV shows ever.
  • Turns out, the legendary Most Interesting Man in the World, managed to survive the original Star Trek episode, “The Corbomite Maneuver” as a redshirt! Is there anything this guy can’t do?
  • Ultimate Doctor Who infographic depicts the companions

Video Games

  • Forget video games: How about playing with holograms
  • How Gaming’s Changing In 2012 (Sez I)

Writing

  • 10 Tips for Generating Killer Science Fiction Story Ideas
  • Read the Way You Write: Classify It, Deconstruct It, Play with It



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