Monday Meanderings hopes to break up the Monday Morning Monotony by bringing you a quick run-down on notable things occurring in the various geek sub-cultures at large.

The Battle of Blood and Ink: A Fable of the Flying City
One of the original members of The Yachting Club has done something many of us dream about. He’s written a graphic novel and this past week it was published! With illustrations by Steve Walker this graphic novel details the adventures of Ashe, a streetwise girl raised in the flying city of Amperstam, as she uncovers the secrets of the city while evading those that would seek to stop here. See our article on it here.

Diablo III
Tomorrow Blizzard releases a game that has been twelve years in the making. I could probably write an entire article about the history of Diablo 3’s development (and maybe I will) but for right now I think it’s best to focus on the present. Starting at 11:01am EST today folks whom have digitally pre-ordered will finally be able to install and troubleshoot their games. At 3:01am tomorrow (May 15th) the servers will open up and folks will finally be able to buy the boxed copies and log in to Sanctuary to square off against the forces of the Burning Hells once more. I got to play the Beta briefly and I am very excited 🙂

The Avengers
Congratulations are in order for the Avengers for joining the Billion Dollar Movie Club. They broke a new record this weekend for having the highest grossing second weekend ever with $103 million, which was enough to also catapult them over $1 billion worldwide; A feat that has only ever been accomplished by eleven other movies in history. Marvel has certainly spent a lot of money and a lot of time ramping up to this film and to me it’s nice to see it all pay off in the end. So congratulations once again to The Avengers 🙂

Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows premiered this past weekend with a gross of $28.8 million dollars ($65.5 million worldwide). Reviews have been mixed to negative with some people loving it and slightly more feeling quite disappointed. Most agree the acting and character backgrounds were great but the consistency and direction of the story are haphazard as if the movie couldn’t quite make up its mind on what kind of movie it wanted to be. Regardless, if you’re a Johnny Depp or Tim Burton fan you may want to see the movie just based on visuals, but unless you’re a die hard there’s probably no harm in waiting until the DVD/Netflix release.

Also to the right side of the page is a list of upcoming events and releases. If you know of something geeky and noteworthy that should belong there or have a suggestion for something to post on Monday Meanderings please let us know!