Geek Media Round-Up: May 28, 2010

Art

• Comics Alliance has posted an inspiring gallery of ‘Wolverine: Netsuke’ Re-Imagined by some very talented art students.
• Fandomania has posted a gallery of excellent Lost fan art.
• Greenpeace is encouraging satirical redesigns of BP’s logo.

Comics

• Backroom Comics discusses the portrayal of women in mainstream comics.
• CBR counts down The Greatest Mark Millar Stories Ever Told!

Film

• Interview: SCI FI Wire interviews George Romero.
• News: Gene Luen Yang to Boycott ‘The Last Airbender’ Movie Over ‘Yellowface’
• Neil Gaiman Gives has released an Update on The Graveyard Book Movie.

Internet

• Galaxy Far Away points the way to Five Great Star Wars Song Parodies.
• OC Weekly lists the Five Things We Hope Are Covered in the Comic-Con Documentary. I’m guessing that “More booth babes” constitutes items 6 – 10.

Literature

• Interview: John Scalzi interviews the author of Brains: A Zombie Memoir.
• News: The Book Industry Study Group sees eBook adoption growing.
• Barnes & Noble’s free eReader app is here, and shockingly, it’s probably the best ebook app on the iPad, for now.
• The Baltimore Sun wonders, In a world where everything’s free on the web, what will happen to publishing?
• Is it ridiculous to criticise Robert E Howard’s enjoyably pulpy Conan stories for their 1930s attitudes to women and race? asks the Guardian.
• SF Signal asks authors “What Fantasy Series comprised of at least 3 novels do you think is underrated?” in its latest Mind Meld.

Technology

• News: First human ‘infected with computer virus’
• News: OLPC Foundation to Launch $100 Student Tablet

Television

• According to ABC, the final images of wreckage were ‘not part of the final story.’
• Julia Stiles is in late-stage negotiations to join the cast of Dexter season five.
• For those of you having a hard time letting go, Max Pictures has an enormous directory of DHARMA Initiative food labels for you to download.
• The Hurley & Ben Show: Lost Epilogue to Get DVD Release.
• UGO has compiled a list of Real-World Gadgets Ripped From Science-Fiction.

Video Games

• News: Study Claims Cognitive Functions Increased through Casual Gaming
• Check out the Fan made Halo Assault Rifle, complete with ammo counter.

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4. Geek Media Round-Up: September 8, 2010
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