If you want to know where the future of TV and games is headed, check out this piece at Gaming Business Review by my old buddy Chris Ulm. A co-creator of Rune, co-founder of the Ultraverse (it was his idea), and now the CEO of Appy Entertainment, he thinks a lot about those kinds of things.

This’ll get you started: “The living room right now is a no-man’s land of standards and cables, universally poor and inconsistent user interfaces, huge numbers of channels, multiple boxes of hardware, hated cable companies, and multiple video game systems, each with its own proprietary hardware and expensive software.”

Scott Pilgrim: John Scalzi explains the failure of Edgar Wright’s movie in terms we can all understand: the value of nerd-love.

The Cleveland Show: Tom Spurgeon’s brother interviews voice actor Kevin Michael Richardson, the voice of Cleveland Jr. and countless other characters.

Beau Smith I: Guess who’s got a new book coming out? That’s right, him. It’s called No Guts, No Glory: How To Market Yourself In Comics and I think the title says it all. The fact that it’s by Beau is enough to order it.

Beau Smith II: He has some advice for today’s funnybook publishers: “Give the readers one full month of stand-alone stories.” And he makes a darn good case for it, too.

Scooby-Doo: I sure do love Mark Evanier’s story of how he got the job writing Hanna-Barbera comics after leaving the TV series Welcome Back, Kotter.

Old Man Yells At Cloud: Award-winning science fiction author Ben Bova doesn’t think graphic novels approach the greatness of novels.

Ghostopolis: Doug Tennapel (the creator of Earthworm Jim) has a new graphic novel out, and Robert Greenberger at Comicmix likes it. “What Tennapel nicely does here is give us a fantasy world but never strays from the emotional ties between members of Garth’s family, which transcends the realities.” Maybe this is one Ben Bova should read.

Gerard Jones: The author (Men of Tomorrow and the new graphic novel Networked: Carabella On The Run, with artist Mark Badger) lays out his (and our) love of junk culture.

Masked: Rod Lott reviews the new super-hero fiction anthology edited by Lou Anders. The editor’s use of authors like Mike Carey, Gail Simone, Peter David and Bill Willingham “makes all the difference,” says Lott.

Brian Keene I: The noted horror/suspense author talks about how to survive as a writer and how he plans to continue in the future.
[Link: Ed Gorman]

Brian Keene II: In other Brian Keene news, he’s got a Superman-Demon story coming up in DCU Halloween Special.

Warren Ellis: Has it been that long since Transmetropolitan #1? The Restless Kind takes a look at the 96-page collection of the first three issues: Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back on the Street.

Super-Heroes On TV: Artist Al Bigley shows us all why comic book fans should be grateful that the technology now exists to make good super-hero movies.

Wulf The Barbarian: Scoop takes a look back at Larry Hama’s short-lived Atlas/Seaboard comic.

And finally, take a (link NSFW) look at the magnificent good girl art of Fritz Willis, courtesy of Joe Ackerman at Two-Fisted Tales Of True-Life Weird Romance.

That’s it for the weekend! Use your internets responsibly because Google-Verizon are trying to take them away from you.

[Artwork: Ghostopolis by Doug Tennapel, © Doug Tennapel]