Whew! The past few days have been
a whirlwind of awesome. There will be a full recounting of all the fun demos,
conversations with developers, and dealer hall hijinks next week. In the
meantime, you can check out pictures from PAX East 2014 on either our G+ or our
Facebook page. Otherwise, I'm just hoping that this post is even remotely
coherent as I'm presently both endorphin-riddled and exhausted. It was a pretty
interesting week in Geekdom, even excluding PAX, so let's get down to it.
Comics
**SPOILER ALERT** Archie Comics
is about to undergo some major changes following the death of a major character.
Extinction Parade is a graphic novel from Max Brooks, the author of
World War Z. The guys at Adventures
in Poor Taste conducted this interview to get the background on this
vampires-versus-zombies saga and how Max feels about the future of the
undead-dominated genre.
Though the rebooted version of
Teen Titans is set to conclude on April 30, the series won't be dark for long.
Beginning July 1, DC will be re (or re-re) launching Teen Titans with writer
Will Pfeifer and artist Kenneth Rocafort at the helm.
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Check out these gorgeous retro-inspired posters of the ladies of DC comics as WWII-era pinup girls.
TV
The Syfy network and Eureka producer Karl Schaefer are
teaming up to produce at least 13 episodes of a new zombie drama series. The
forthcoming show, titled Z Nation, will
be the first of several such zombie-centric TV releases due out this autumn
hoping to capitalize on the popularity of the
Walking Dead. Reading over the premise of Z Nation, I couldn't help but think that it sounded eerily familiar
to Y: The Last Man. Speaking of
which, why hasn't that been made into a series yet?
Movies
Battlestar Galactica has already
gone through five, count 'em, five incarnations on the small screen, but
apparently there's enough interest in the property to potentially bring about
avatar number 6 (how appropriate). Universal Studios confirmed that they are in the process of preparing for a movie version of Battlestar. The cinematic version is slated to
be a 'complete reimagining', much to the dismay of Edward James Olmos fans.
Science/Technology
We've chatted before about Schrodinger’s cat and concept of the superposition of states, but why can't that concept be
applied outside of quantum physics? Arkady Bolotin of Ben-Gurion University provides this potential explanation.
While we're on the subject of all
things quantum, researchers at Durham University offer this articulation of how they used quantum techniques to build the world's first entanglement-enhanced telescope.
The next few weeks are going to
feature not one, but two total eclipses. Click here for all the details on these forthcoming celestial events.
On Thursday, astronomers
announced the possible discovery of the first observed 'exomoon'.
In the weeks following this breakthrough concerning the probable origins of our universe there's been a deluge of
related questions that have cropped up in response. Not least of which amongst
these is "How can the universe have been formed from nothing?" Well, Dongshan
He and his peers at the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics may have an answer for that.
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File this under Real Life
Transformers: a helicopter that can become a truck.
Games
It never fails. There's a
horrific act of violence and it takes the media mere nanoseconds before the
blame is shunted upon 'violent video games.' Well, according to this new study,
the feelings of aggression that players experience does not appear to be at all
tied to the imagery or narrative of a game.
Esports has been a burgeoning
force in global entertainment for years now, but just how popular are they?
Red Bull breaks down this gaming juggernaut in these five factoids.
General Awesomeness
Decades after Knight Rider went
off the air, fans are still keen to pay tribute to their favorite talking car.
Case in point is this insanely detailed replica of KITT, which was just auctioned off
for $152,600 USD.
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