Anakin Skywalker: The Fan Dub

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a fevered analysis on the shared and disperate qualties of Luke and Anakin Skywalker. The conclusion was Anakin is a horrible, horrible person but also a victim of circumstance, because his formative years were a trauma-inducing roller coaster of highs, lows, and constant dehumanization.

The New Terminator Is Two-Face's Female Doppleganger

Did you know Helena Bonham Carter is in the new Terminator movie? She is. She's not in the trailer, but that's because she's got some super-secret makeup, which is actually not a secret anymore because a photo was released of a makeup/effects test. People seem to be treating it sort of like a spoiler, so I'm putting the photo behind a cut. I bet we'll see her in the next trailer, though.

As you may have gathered from this post's concise headline, she looks a lot like everyone's second favorite villain from The Dark Knight.

Hit the jump for a picture, and some weird nonsense bordering dangerously on fanfic...



I give it a month.

via SciFi.com

The Watchmocalypse Is Almost Upon Us!

Repent, fanboys! The time of the Watchpocalypse is at hand! The unfilmmable tome has been put forth to celluloid and we of this earth must bare the consequences.

The Geekanerd crew will be attending the midnight screening at the 34th Street Lowes in Manhattan - if you see a bunch of nerds not wearing costumes, that's us. I'm going in with measured expectations...the book is layered with meaning in ways the film will not be, but the film also has a chance to take a pass at interpreting difficult parts of the story that I've always found a little tough to buy. Snyder, "visionary" though he may be, has never struck me as a particularly insightful director, but if his contribution to the project was only the opening credit sequence, which I was lucky enough to see at New York Comic Con, he will have given Moore fans something to savor for all time. Here's hoping the rest of the film rises to that standard.

PS: That sweet graphic is by Das Chupa, it was his entry to the Art Jumble blog's current Watchmen Theme. Boy, speaking of Watchmen art, I really shudder to think of all the upcoming Watchmen fanart that will be based on the film cast. Oh well, as long as there's room on Deviant Art for stuff like this:

Dying Artforms: The Best Left 4 Dead Fan Art On The Web

Remember how much we at Geekanerd love Portal? Sure you do. Well, for the past few months, we've devoted a sizable fraction of that love to Valve's newest venture, Left 4 Dead. Perhaps you've heard of it.

While I would not attempt to try to recreate the monument of fandom that is Portal Authority, I've been looking at so much Left 4 Dead fan art in the last few days, I find it's necessary to share the highlights as a service to you, the reader.


First up, an adorable Hunter jumping an adorably oblivious Louis. This is from DeviantArtist Slushy-man's spin on Left 4 Dead DeviantArt meme, a source of endless fun.

Scary zombies, cute zombies, animated zombies, sexy zombies, and PEELS, after the jump...



Apparently this is this whole subculture of geek icons rendered in crochet...and windgie79 posted these Left 4 Dead "super zombies" on the Crafter.org messageboard. As much as I like to see zombie bile rendered in yarn, I would pay cash money for that lil Hunter on my desk. I would throw it at my roommates EVERY DAY.


I think we've all been here. From SAsukaLangley's L4D meme.

These are only two female characters in L4D. Here is them kissing, courtesy of Bar1Scorpio. For more Zoe/Witch escapades, check out this Nyoro meme comic by DDRshaman38. No pron, sorry.


Here's yet more Zoe/Witch BFFness...although if you read the full comic by Fishgut-San, you'll see it's all just part of a cunning plan.



Part of the LD4 meme is drawing yourself as your favorite character. This is a nice take on Zoe, and bonus points to artist Lauren for so subtly weaving in the Peelz Meme.

Speaking of the Peelz Meme...

Impressive work by CosmicD. The best part of this is the first 40 seconds. I'm thinking using the "Pills Here!" chorus as the backing track for my yet-to-be-written L4D rap.


Grabbin' seels. And if you think that's a misspelling, you need to brush up on your Pokerap.


Just a snippet from one of the better L4D comics I've seen. He's got a pretty good command of the survivor's personalities, and Louis's plan made me LOL. Read the whole thing at Sean's DA Page.


Are you noticing that there's a lot of really simple art here? You can't deny this scene from Wibbletfish has personality.


This is evidence if a disturbed and brilliant mind. "The Left For Deadfast Club", via Visually Pink. I have to include the artist's captions as well.

Thomas the Tank - A star football quarterback, likes throwing shit.

Bobby "Boomer" - Awkward fat kid, always sick, but when he's around, he really gets the party started.

Smokin' Sam - Weird smoking dude, always doing his own thing in the corner. Might get lung cancer or something worse one day.

Whitney - Quiet, sad girl. Always down for some reason. The boys don't know how to deal with her, so they just leave her alone.

Hunter - Sharp, quick kid. Don't know why he dresses like that - you look like a hoodlum, boy. >:/

Bright kids, with a bright future!! What lies in store for them!? Only time will tell!!

Haw!


Chibi-tastic cartoon, by Brad Redfield. People seem to really feel for the witch. I think perhaps there is a bit of The Witch in all gamers.

Beavotron has made a whole series of nerdy valentine cards, including one for each Special Infected. This is my favorite, because it's the only one that reaches it's full PUNtential (dies).


There are tons upon tons of these fan created "movie" posters, and almost all of them are terrible. I like this one by Naruzap, because the title is PUNderful and I'd love to see zombie congressmen.

This post has been a little Cute Overload for the most part, so here are some distressing images to close...


Not everyone survives a campaign. "Zoey's Final Moment" by Xerios.

And finally...it probably comes as a surprise to no one that there is a definite trend towards Smoker smex in fan art, combining the fun of tentacle rape with the emo-ness of necrophilia. Can't wait for those keyword searches to roll in. Oy. It's unavoidable on L4D fan art searches, so here are two relatively inoffensive examples.


Zoe is the focus of most of this stuff...poor girl.


OTP indeed. Seeing Francis like this is really upsetting. From super Smoker fan, Queen DeDeDe's meme.


Ahah, shoe's on the other foot now! Also by Queen DeDeDe.

Sorry to subject you to that, dear readers. Here some excellent non-sexual Smoker art by Browning43 to get that, ahem, taste out of your mouth. Uch. It's late.




HALLOWEEN UPDATE: This year Gnerd editor Degan went ahead and made a Smoker pumpkin. We've even got the stencils posted on our Halloween wrap-up, go check it out!


That's it for now. If I missed anything insanely brilliant, hit us up. I've got to go get my Zoey costume ready for ComicCon.

The Wide World of Geeky TV Fanart

Simpsons by Spacecoyote

Hey so you guys remember fanart right? Of course you do, half of you had a geocities website with all your crudely drawn pictures loaded up for everyone (read: no one) to see! These days with sites like deviantart and people knowing how to actually create non-tripod webpages and blogs fanart is all the more available. Well I decided to scrounge around the net and see what the current fan art for some of the great geeky shows looks like. Here's a sampling of what I found, some good, some...not so good, and some just plain strange. Enjoy!

-And for the record, nothing after the jump is NSFW, trust me, I came upon way too many of those types of images to count and had no intention of putting them up here. But yeah, thanks internet, I really could have gone without seeing some of that stuff.-



First up,
Battlestar Galactica

Nice trio of Starbuck, the Admiral and the Prez by Gould.


A couple of the Simpsonized BSG characters you may have seem floating around via Dylan Meconis.

Moving on, here's a smattering of some Mythbusters art:

The whole gang by Brian Prindville.

Adam and Jamie by Digital Duckie. Please note Adam's lovely pink underpants.

The duo again by Bill Drastal.

Heroes, anyone?

A lovely sketch card selection by crisishour. Bennet shot though the eye is always a fun image.

Here's Bennet alive and well via acidburn133, I prefer shot through the eye.

Nice rendition of the lovely Kristen Bell by scorch-d.

Goddamn that's some blood. Isaac by harbek. And speaking of blood, how about some brutal Metalocalypse art:

umm, yeah actually this is pretty character accurate for Toki.

The band by Chronofiend. Man Muderface looks even uglier, if possible.

Time for some Veture Bros.

Yes, awesome, always love when The Monarch looks badass.

Uh, woah, what the crap? Terrifying image brought to you by Spookychan.

Also ATHF:

Aqua Teens as real people, somehow not that much less creepy.

Another version of the force as humans, slightly less unnerving.

Okay see now here's where we go wrong, (or oh so hilariously right). Carl, as two characters from the anime Inu Yasha. Hilarious. Terrifying.

Now for some randoms:

Twin Peaks fan art? Yes, thank you Johanna.

COLBERT NATION MOFOS!

TEK JANSON NATION MOFOS!

Someone might like Jon Stewert just a little too much...maybe. We forgive you Carts, because it's an excellent rendition you've done.

Cowboy Bebop + Pulp Fiction = good fanart by ek

Cowboy Bebop/Fear and Loathing mix by ek.

A little Firefly courtesy of Kristele.

House NO! Why would you choke Gordon Freeman?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!

I'm not even sure...is that...Reboot and Zelda combined?

Oh hi Brendon Small, you're looking a little out of sorts today....

Not so much a nerdy show, but the Star Wars reference gives it a whole bag of win.

Okay so lastly, here's a ton of Futurama art I grabbed because well, it's so awesome:

League of Extrodinary Gentlemen/Futurama by loeg.

Claw Plagh! by spacecoyote.


The whole gang by spacecoyote.

Beck and Bender, again by spacecoyote.

SD Fry and Leela.

Futurama as the cast of Fifth Element. I'd watch it.

Fry playing the holophoner.

Fry and Leela ala Star Wars. It's a popular movie to mash with.


Badass rendition of the PE crew as if they were real people. Damn Zoidberg is terrifying.

OH GOD NO WHY WOULD YOU DRAW THIS PICORMDWE, WHY? WHY DO YOU WANT TO MAKE ME CRY?

Well that's it for today. I'll have to maybe do some more of these, anyone for a roundup of geeky tattoos?