The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Amartinsdebarros presents “The Art Scholar,” an oil painting on canvas.
• VolpinProps explains the process behind his creation of a Big Daddy Bioshock costume.

Comics

• The recent Kirby lawsuit raises the question of Who Created Spider-Man.
• The Comics Alliance has compiled a list of The 11 Great Comic Book Robots that doesn’t go how you might guess.

Film

• Interview: Michael Caine On Batman 3: “There Is No Johnny Depp.”
• News: It’s official, Disney has optioned Disney optioned On Stranger Tides for use as the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
• Den of Geek picks the Top 10 Movie Re-Edits, including Leon and Daredevil.
• MovieFill presents an infographic Comparing Disney and Marvel.
• The Spill counts down 10 Overwhelmingly Claustrophobic Movies.

Literature

• Interview: Editor Nick Mamatas discusses the New Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror Imprint.
• Interview: The latest episode of Dragon Page features author Robert J. Sawyer.
• Interview: Richard K. Morgan talks Noir Fantasy with io9.
• It turns out there’s a little something extra for fans in the ISBN of The Lost Symbol.
• The Lost Symbol, is doing for the Freemasons what its predecessor, The Da Vinci Code, did for the Catholic Church’s Opus Dei, but National Geographic sets in to Decode 8 Freemason Myths.
• WFPL News radio recently considered The Subversive Side of Science Fiction, beginning with Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.

Television

• Galactica.TV offers The History of the Cylon Centurion Costume, reminding us that the Cylons were originally a reptilian race, not robots.
• Fans of the Sarah Connor Chronicles are refusing to give up… Firefly fans look on with pity.