Morning Glories #2
Written By: Nick Spencer
Art By: Joe Eisma
Cover Art: Rodin Esquejo
Price: $3.50
Image Comics
Release date: September 15, 2010

The Morning Glory Academy continues to be a mystery with the release of Morning Glories #2 from Image Comics. The new class of students has just arrived for their first day of school and it’s already off to a bad start. The students find that they may have a common reason for being at the school.

In issue #2, the new class of Morning Glory Academy has landed themselves in detention and in deep waters. Each student’s reason for being in detention is revealed in a series of numerous flashbacks involving a secret cult in the basement, a crazy roommate, and refusal to answer a question. The students end up in a bad situation during detention and a student’s flashback reveals an interesting twist to this fantastic story [...]

Recorded September 13, 2010.

Our September Doom Of The Month will be Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly’s All Star Superman! If you want to read along with us, head on over to Instocktrades.com or DCBService.com to pick up volumes 1 and 2 for some super prices! Be sure to check back at the end of September for our special episode.

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Magnet Releasing, a branch of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired the North American rights to the Korean monster movie titled Chawz. The movie comes from director Jeong-won Shin and will act as a sort of tribute to monster movies, telling the story of a vicious and mammoth wild boar that attacks tourists who are there looking to pick organic vegetables, forcing a group of people to set off on a mission to hunt and kill the beast. It is also said to show off some spectacularly gory special effects.

Tom Quinn, who acts as the Senior Vice President of Magnet, said of the acquisition “If Jaws was looking to branch out to dry land, without a doubt he’d want to be Chawz. Another worthy addition to the Korean monster hall of fame and the Magnet Releasing library.”

Continue reading on to check out a preview of the movie that’s not of the best quality, but gives you an idea of what we’re dealing with here. [...]

The minds behind Adult Swim hit show The Venture Bros. – Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer — decided to meet their adoring fans differently for their Dragon*Con 2010 panel by setting up some comfy chairs, a coffee table and cheesy ’70′s music that played whenever the pair wasn’t speaking.

Call it convention fatigue or boredom, but Publick and Hammer thought it would be better to treat the scheduled time as an old school talkshow — Maury Povich style. They took turns running through the crowded ballroom allowing fans to ask questions and receive a rose if it was deemed worthy of answering.

We captured the whole thing on a shaky, amateurishly handled FlipCam and have subsequently uploaded the videos to YouTube, which you can watch below.

Some of the high points include Bill Hader replacing the voice of Stephen Cobert as Professor Richard Impossible, why a Venture Bros. feature-length film is probably a bad idea and lots of news regarding who will be back for the last part of the season.

Check out the embedded video after the jump. [...]

Peter Jackson’s award-winning The Lord Of The Rings film trilogy is now available for first time as single-edition Blu-rays. In conjunction with this release, we here at Geeks of Doom have an awesome Lord Of The Rings prize pack with some real cool goodies to give away to one (1) lucky reader!

One (1) winner will receive:

- One (1) The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring Blu-ray Edition
- One (1) The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers Blu-ray Edition
- One (1) The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King Blu-ray Edition
- One (1) LOTR Playing Cards
- Two (2) LOTR Bookmarks
- One (1) LOTR Jade necklace from New Zealand
- One (1) LOTR Navy Blue Ornament
- One (1) LOTR Travel Candle
- One (1) LOTR Poster

The Blu-ray Editions of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King were released on September 14, 2010 and are available now through Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy tells the story of Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), a hobbit who battles against the Dark Lord Sauron to save his world, Middle-earth, from the grip of evil. In the films, Frodo and his fellowship of friends and allies embark on a desperate journey to rid Middle-earth of the source of Sauron’s greatest strength, the One Ring — a ring that has the power to enslave the inhabitants of Middle-earth. The trilogy tells tales of extraordinary adventures across the treacherous landscape of Middle-earth and reveals how the power of friendship, love and courage can hold the forces of darkness at bay. Beside Wood, the films star Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, featuring Sean Bean, and Ian Holm, with Andy Serkis as Gollum. The films also star Marton Csokas, Craig Parker and Lawrence Makaoare. [...]

A brand new clip has been released for the new thriller, Insidious.

The movie is directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell, who co-created Saw together, and produced by Jason Blum, Steven Schneider, and Oren Peli, the team behind the indie horror hit Paranormal Activity.

The movie follows a family whose son slips into a coma before strange, inexplicable things start to happen, forcing them into a fight to keep evil spirits from trapping the boy in their realm.

Click on over to the other side now to get a peek at the movie in this new clip, which shows a sketch artist drawing out what a psychic is seeing near the young comatose boy.

Insidious stars Patrick Wilson (Little Children, Watchmen) and Rose Byrne (Sunshine, Knowing), and Barbara Hershey (Beaches, Black Swan). Director Wan has also helmed Dead Silence, Death Sentence, and is attached to the Castlevania movie in development. Whannell’s previous scripts also include Saw II and Saw III. [...]

Fans of the Battlestar Galactica prequel series Caprica no longer have to wait until January 2011 for new episodes, according to the SyFy Channel.

The network announced that the show’s 1.5 season premiere will now air October 5 at 10 PM EST following the premiere of Stargate Universe. Sanctuary, which was originally intended for this time slot, has been bumped back to October 15 — a Friday.

For the majority of Caprica fans (e.g., people who are reading this article) the new time slot gives them back their Friday nights, but who knows how it’ll affect DVR and TiVo numbers. One thing that may hurt the show on a Tuesday may be the non-geek crowd that perhaps watched the show because nothing else compared to it on a Friday night.

Time will tell, but I’ve heard there are multiple Zoe Greystones for the last half of the season, so I can’t imagine ratings would dip.

Check out a clip of the upcoming episodes [...]

Check out Episode 11 of the Flix of Doom podcast, the official movie podcast of Geeks of Doom, September 13, 2010, with hosts Empress Eve and Justin Vactor. For this Resident Evil-themed episode, we take a look at the latest film, Resident Evil: Afterlife (in Eve-loving 3D!) as well as all the previous films in the series. And if anyone’s interested there’s also some movie news and box office results thrown in for good measure.

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Before we get to the news…best headline ever, right? These are the things movie fans dream about hearing about.

In February of this year, word came out of the Berlin Film Festival that legendary director Martin Scorsese was working on a new mob movie called The Irishman with Robert De Niro, re-teaming the duo responsible for creating one of the great mob movies of all time in Goodfellas. The only thing about this movie, was that it would be more of a reflection film, with an old mobster looking back on his life of crime. The movie will be based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt, which details the life of Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran — one of the prime suspects in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa — as told by the Irishman himself.

To add to that, now we have word of two more potential castings that would make this so much more exciting than it already was. [...]

Last week, Amazon offered up the entire first season of Mad Men for only $9.99 through their digital On Demand service.

Now, the complete second season of Mad Men is available for purchase for only $9.99 through their Video On Demand service. This includes all 13 episodes of the AMC drama starring Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, and January Jones.

This digital deal is only for today, Tuesday, September 14, beginning at midnight PST and running for 24 hours, so grab it while you can. The digital version is regularly $13.99, and sold separately, each episode is $1.99. (The HD version is $26.99 or $2.99 each episode.)

Visit the Mad Men Season 2 product page to purchase the entire season in standard definition for only $9.99 [...]

Last August, we covered a story about the Iceman, Richard Kuklinski, one of the world’s most infamous serial killers and mafia hitmen (Read: Best News Ever: Ice Man Richard Kuklinski Movie Delayed Due To Channing Tatum Casting Possibility). At the time, it was revealed that Philip Carlo, who authored the book The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer, was pulling out of his movie deal to adapt the book with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura because Bonaventura wanted to cast Channing Tatum to play Kuklinski.

This would have been one of the worst casting choices in the history of cinema, and everyone including Carlo seemed to know it, which led to the halt and retreat from further progress. At the time, Carlo made it known that his preference was for Mickey Rourke to take on the role, and though many of you felt actors like James Gandolfini or Tom Wilkinson would be best, it’s now being reported that Rourke is indeed attached to star. [...]

It’s no secret that the popularity of director M. Night Shyamalan has plummeted after his past few movies, but he has clearly not recognized the decline in quality or his fan base, as was made clear when a reporter recently asked him about it during a conference for his most recent film, The Last Airbender.

Since then, the next step down has come in the form of Devil, the new horror movie that Shyamalan isn’t directing but is a producer on. Anyone who has seen the trailer for this movie running in theaters has shared stories of the crowd booing, laughing, and all-around reacting about as negatively as a filmmaker could fear a crowd’s reaction to seeing something with their name attached to it.

Jumping on this wave of negative criticism, a new video has been created to spoof Shyamalan and the slow-yet-reluctant realization of his own dwindling fame. As you might expect, he stubbornly refuses to believe this could be happening to him and tries to figure out what evil forces could be behind it all, and the resulting parody is quite hilarious. [...]

Lost The Complete Sixth Season
DVD/Blu-ray
WRITERS/DIRECTORS: Damon Lindelof, Carton Cuse, Jack Bender, Adam Horowitz, Paul Edwards, Tucker Gates, Edward Kitsis, Elizabeth Sarnoff
STARRING: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O’Quinn, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Naveen Andrews, Yunjin Kim, Daniel Dae Kim, Michael Emmerson, Emile de Ravin, Nestor Carbonell, Ken Jeung, Jeff Fahey, Henry Ian Cusick, Mark Pellegrino Dominic Monaghan
Disney Home Entertainment
RELEASE DATE: August 24, 2010

Reviewing The Final Season of LOST is not the easiest thing to pull off. If you have any interest at all in this sixth and last season, then you’ve seen seasons one through five already (at least you better have!). And if you’ve seen seasons one through five, then you were most likely just as excited to inhale the sixth as everyone else, and already know exactly what you think of it!

That said, this final season was met with a battle of varying opinions. Most Lost faithfuls came to love the way things were wrapped up; some had difficulty warming up to it, myself included, but in the end it all found a way to work. On the other hand, there were a surprising amount of fans who were enraged by what they saw, unfortunately. [...]

Amazon is offering up Star Trek III: The Search For Spock for purchase for only $3.99 through their Video On Demand service.

This digital deal is only for today, Monday, September 13, beginning at midnight PST and runs for 24 hours, so grab it while you can. The digital version is regularly $9.99, and the 24-hour rental is $2.99.

Visit the Star Trek III: The Search for Spock product page to purchase the film.

Released in 1984, the movie is the third in the Star Trek film franchise with the original series cast of William Shatner as James T. Kirk, along with the rest of the Enterprise crew, and this time they’re on a mission to find Spock!

Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock’s body. [...]

Greetings vamplings, tis I, Cruechik, back once again to discuss my favorite undead creatures. This time, it’s the vamps of True Blood, which after two long weeks of waiting, finally aired the finale of season 3 tonight.

Warning: If you haven’t seen Season 3 of True Blood, there be SPOILERS.

True Blood Season 3 saw the introduction of all kinds of ‘supes including werewolves — most importantly the drool-inducing Alcide Herveaux (Joe Manganiello); fairies; and crazy inbred werepanthers. Our heroine, Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and her favorite (or is he…hmm…?) vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) have had a series of skirmishes this season, and at the end of last epi’s cliffie, it once again appeared the part fae part human Sookie might not survive. Of more concern to me was whether or not VILF Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard) would meet the true death. It didn’t look too good for Eric, who was out in the daylight frying like a catfish in a cast iron pan, handcuffed to insane “I carry my dead lover’s remains around in a candy jar” vamp king, Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare) [...]

Amazon has resurrected one of its amazing deals for today’s Gold Box deal of the day!

Right now, the Firefly Complete Series Blu-ray collection is on sale for only $26.99! (that’s $63 off or 70% off the list price of $89.98).

This deal is good only for today, Sunday, September 12, until midnight PST while supplies last.

This Blu-ray edition comes with 14 episodes of the Joss Whedon scifi space western television series Firefly, which was canceled much too prematurely by Fox back in 2002 before the first season was even completed. This set includes the last three episodes that never aired on television [...]

The Season 3 finale of HBO’s True Blood airs this Sunday, September 12, at 9PM (8PM Central), and to get everyone ready for it, HBO has released a few clips from the final episode, along with a preview trailer.

If you want a little refresher of the previous episode (Episode 35), there’s also a video recap.

Watch the videos here below.

Everyone I know who watches this show can’t wait to see this season finale, although, it means that we won’t be getting anymore True Blood until Spring 2011 — that’s insane! Plus, the Season 3 DVD/Blu-ray won’t even be release until some time next year. That’s going to be a pretty big wait for fans [...]

The first trailer for director Clint Eastwood‘s new supernatural thriller, Hereafter, has arrived online.

The movie looks like interesting new territory for the 80-year-old machine that is Eastwood, somewhat stepping into other-worldly realms.

It stars Matt Damon as a man who has psychic abilities and is able to communicate with the deceased, which once saw him as an author and celebrity in paranormal communication. But as he tries to leave that life behind him, others who have looked death in the face seek him out as they pursue answers.

Be sure to click on over to the other side now to read a synopsis and check out the first trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, or make your way to Apple for all high definition viewing options!

The movie is written by Peter Morgan (The Last King of Scotland, Frost/Nixon), and also stars Cécile de France, Frankie McLaren, George McLaren, Jay Mohr, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Richard Kind. [...]

No matter what your personal opinion of The Boondock Saints or Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day might be, you can’t help but love and respect something like this.

USO shows are a staple in entertaining and bringing smiles to the faces of our military’s troops as they serve our country, and countless stars and celebrities have made their way to these shows over the years to do their best to keep spirits and morale as high as possible during tough times.

Now, stars of the two Saints films, Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus (who spoke to us a while back about Boondock II among other things), as well as Brian Mahoney, director Troy Duffy, and producer Chris Brinker are heading off on their own trip. Their destination: the Middle East, where they will take part in one of these USO entertainment tours, allowing them to meet many of our country’s soldiers, sign autographs, and take pictures with those who risk their lives to defend our nation. [...]

Stealing Fire
Written by Jo Graham
Orbit Publishing
Release Date: May 25, 2010

Do you like historical fiction? Do you like fantasy novels? Are you looking for a book that makes you think? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then read on, because I have the perfect book for you.

Stealing Fire by Jo Graham tells the story of the chaos surrounding the death of Alexander the Great and its aftermath through the ever-loyal hero of the novel, Lydias of Miletus. Lydias who, although was once a slave boy, becomes one of Alexander’s soldiers. After the death of the king, Lydias chooses to follow Ptolemy, one of Alexander’s generals who made Egypt his territory. Ptolemy and Lydias, with the help of the Persian archer Artashir and the eunuch Bagoas, Alexander’s lover, must fight to save the fate of the new city of Alexandria and Alexander’s legacy.

I went into this book without many expectations having never read much about Alexander the Great or any of Jo Graham’s other novels beforehand. I loved the actions scenes, they were great and pretty frequent; however, at times, the novel moved too slowly for me. [...]