The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Awesome New Concept Art Unveiled for Batman: Arkham City
• Costume Redesigns for Superman, Wonder Woman, Starfire by Aaron Diaz
• The Deleted City digital archeology project visualizes Geocities as a giant virtual city
• The glory of bad SF and fantasy cover art
• The Star Trek Quiet Book, by the author of The Jedi Quiet Book
• Super Mario Bros Graffiti

Comics

• Interview: Acclaimed comic-book writer Grant Morrison talks about his take on the legendary Action Comics and equally iconic Superman!
• Interview: David Finch talks about returning to the Caped Crusader in Batman.
• Interview: The Fury of Firestorm: Gail Simone and Ethan Van Sciver chat.
• Interview: Peter Milligan talks with us about the “other” Justice League
• Interview: Tony Bedard answers questions about The New Guardians
• Interview: Slayalive has a Q&A with Scott Allie for Angel & Faith #2.
• News: DC Makes 100 Titles Available Digitally Exclusively On Amazon Kindle Fire
• Five questions about the Kindle Fire and digital comics
• Patton Oswalt Ragequits DC Comics Following Encounter with Survey Worker
• Sexism in Comics is Not New–Here’s What You Should Do about It
• Super-Heroes Don’t Like to Smile Anymore, Not on the Covers of DC’s New 52

Cross-Media

• io9 picks the 10 Coolest Death Scenes in Science Fiction History

Film

• Interview: Chris Evans on playing a superhero in ‘The Avengers’
• Interview: Damon Lindelof teases the plot elements of ‘Prometheus’
• Interview: Jonathan Nolan Talks Leaked ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Set Photos
• News: Iron Man 3 To Be Shot in North Carolina
• News: Mortal Kombat Movie Reboot Is A Go, Being Prepped for 2013
• News: Wanted 2 Is Happening… Yay?
• News: Warners Planning Major ‘Twilight Zone’ Feature!
• 40 Greatest Science-Fiction Posters, as chosen by TotalFilm
• 145 Reasons Why Spider-Man 3 Sucked
• Empire’s Fantastic New Photo Spreads for Fincher’s ‘Dragon Tattoo’
• A Few More Explosive New ‘The Avengers’ Photos from EW Revealed
• There Is Hope: Steven Spielberg Regrets Altering ET
• Watch a trailer for Milla Jovovich’s Faces in the Crowd, which looks to be this year’s big Halloween release.

Internet

• Roger Ebert provides some useful analysis of Netflix’s future – he’s positive on it.

Literature

• Interview: The Agony Column interviews Lev Grossman of The Magician King.
• Interview: Compulsive Reader interviews Angela Slatter of Girl with No Hands
• Interview: George R. R. Martin of A Dance with Dragons talks to Young America
• Interview: Jim Butcher Opens the Dresden Files for The Geek’s Guide
• Interview: Language of Sci-Fi talks to China Miéville about Embassytown
• News: Bloomsbury to digitally revive out-of-print books
• News: Pottermore e-book launch pushed back to 2012
• 12 Books That Have (Ironically) Been Banned in the U.S.
• Amazon retroactively replaces Reamde, repelled readers revolt
• Borders’ Liquidation Sales an Unexpected Boon for Authors
• The Digital Age and How Publishers Are More Important Than Ever
• The smell of e-books just got better
• Things We Never Told You: Ode to a Bookstore Death

Science

• Gigantic gravitational waves could explain the universe’s biggest mysteries stories
• NASA report confirms: Commercially-designed rockets are way cheaper than government goods. So, why is space exploration still the government’s domain?
• Scientist and Science Fiction author Joan Slonczewski, author of A Door Into The Ocean, guest blogs about science fictional and microbiology on Charles Stross’s site: Salt Beings, Microbes grow the starship, Synthetic Babies
• What will the first humans on Mars eat? One scientist has the answer.

Technology

• At least one writer thinks the Fire is a threat to the iPad: It’s the Price, Stupid! Another thinks it’s more of a threat to other Android tablets, while others think it will have no impact on the high-end tablet market, serving simply as an entry-level product.

Television

• Interview: The AV Club interviews Alan Tudyk.
• Firefly quote prompts bizarrely escalating university censorship battle.
• Five New Images From Season 2 Premiere Of The Walking Dead
• Freaks and Geeks: Where are they now?
• How Dexter is Like a Superhero: Is TV’s greatest killer more Batman than butcher?
• How Good Doctor Who Has Gotten at Making Pepper Pots Scary Again
• Walking Dead Season Premiere To Be Preceded by Web-Only Prequel

Video Games

• Interview: Cliff Bleszinski on Gears Of War 3′s story, themes and design.
• Interview: For the first time, the Quantic Dream founder David Cage reveals how he saved his studio from disaster
• Interview: Meet the man behind Angry Birds: Jaakko Iisalo tells us how Rovio made the world’s most successful mobile game.
• 51 Percent of Gamers Not Happy with 3D Consoles
• Gears of War Franchise Aiming For More Emotional Storytelling
• Pick Up the Third Volume of Portal 2’s Soundtrack for Free
• Tim Rogers has written a long piece about the evils of social gaming
  and the mechanics of getting players to pay for virtual items. This, in reaction to certain mechanics in the new facebook mega-game, The Sims Social, which Tim has also reviewed, calling it “A Love Letter from a Computer Virus”

Writing

• How To Make An eBook

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