Heist #1: Homeland Insecurity
Written by Brendan McGinley
Pencils and Inks by Andres Ponce
Colors by Rocio Zucchi
Letters by Brendan McGinley
Plot and Edits by Brendan McGinley and Josh Elder
Cover by Andres Ponce and Juan Manuel Tumburus
Release Date: Ongoing

I’ve never reviewed a webcomic before but found it pretty similar to reading digital comics on my tablet. I read Heist#1: Homeland Insecurity twice because I knew that I had missed something on my first go. The comic itself was entertaining and held my attention all the way through. Brandon McGinley has taken the standard hero/villain story and twisted it a bit. I was stunned to see that the art was pencil and ink, it was so cleanly done that it seemed digitally rendered at times [...]

Hello everybody and welcome back to Comics of Doom, your go to place for all the latest and greatest in the world of comic books!

On this week’s episode Justin and Willie make their triumphant return to the podcast to join Hunter and Chris to talk about several comics including Mudman #1, Hark! A Vagrant, The All New Batman: The Brave and The Bold #13, Bone, and many more! So, if you’re interested in any of these comics, or any comics really, you need to listen to this episode!

But wait, there’s more! In addition to all of this great talk about specific comic books, the boys also discuss comics storage and the benefits and drawbacks of both physical and digital comics. Stay tuned, because this episode is a CAN’T MISS [...]

A nice little collection of behind the scenes set photos from Baz Luhrmann‘s upcoming new take on F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s classic novel, The Great Gatsby, have found their way online.

The images show stars Leonardo DiCaprio, the lovely Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire on set and in full costume and looking prim and proper and perfectly adapted to the period. DiCaprio plays Jay Gatsby in the movie, while Mulligan plays Daisy Buchanan and Maguire plays Nick Carraway. [...]

For a while it looked like season 6 of Showtime’s hit original series, Dexter, could be its last. But everyone’s favorite serial killer with a code and one of Miami’s finest blood analysts is not ready to settle down quite yet.

It’s being reported that after some rough waters during the negotiation process, Showtime and star Michael C. Hall have come to an agreement on a new two-year deal, which means…you guessed it: two new seasons of Dexter! [...]

The Kindle ebook deal of the day over at Amazon today is Ian Fleming‘s second James Bond novel, Live and Let Die, for only $1.99 (that’s 80% off the regular price of $9.99).

Note – this deal is valid only for today, Saturday, November 19, 2011, until 11:59pm PST.

If you’d like to purchase a physical copy of Live and Let Die, the book is also in paperback [...]

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is the Star Wars-themed shirt called “Old Ben’s Sabers” by artist Steve Thomas.

The sale at RIPT began today, Saturday, November 19, 2011, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore [...]

The first poster for The Expendables 2 (or EX2, as it’s dubbed here) has arrived, and it’s a surreal thing to lay eyes on.

Explosions and gunfire act only as a border to the multi-headed beast that is this movie’s cast. The poster features a veritable who’s who of 1980s action movie stars including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Jean-Clause Van Damme, and Dolph Lundgren. [...]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Xbox 360 l PS3 l PC
DEVELOPER: Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games
PUBLISHER: Activision
WRITER: Paul Haggis
STARRING: Kevin McKidd, Billy Murray, William Fichtner, Idris Elba, Timothy Olyphant
RELEASE DATE: November 8, 2011

The Call of Duty franchise has become a juggernaut in the video game industry—with titles like World at War, Black Ops, and, biggest of all, the Modern Warfare series contributing to what has become a more profitable franchise than both Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, to name a couple. [...]

The Serpent And The Rainbow
Netflix Streaming
DVD
Directed by Wes Craven
Written by Richard Maxwell and Adam Rodman
Based on the novel by Wade Davis
Starring Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae
Universal Pictures
Originally Released: February 5, 1988

After taking a look at a couple of documentaries for our Netflix review series, I concluded it was time to jump back into something a little more familiar for me: Horror. Recently added to the Netflix streaming collection, The Serpent And The Rainbow is a classic horror movie in the true sense of the word “classic” – it hearkens in the past to an age where overrated frights and intense gore was not necessarily a part of the genre [...]

Got an iPad or a web browser? Of course you do! Well then, there’s great news for you, readers. The awesome fantasy-driven comic Skullkickers is currently having a 99 cent sale on the comiXology digital comics platform.

Now, I’ve been talking a lot about Skullkickers by Jim Zubkavitch, Edwin Huang, and Misty Coats on this site before, and as you can clearly tell, I absolutely love the series [...]

DC Comics announced today that its recently relaunched title Detective Comics by writer/artist Tony Daniel is getting a fourth printing, which makes it the second “New 52″ series to get this many reprintings.

So people really like this run of Detective Comics, huh? Well, I’ve gotta say that even though I wasn’t expecting much from the series, I’ve been really impressed thus far. And so if you’ve missed the Tony Daniel-conducted Detective Comics train, you’ll be getting another opportunity to catch it [...]

You can go ahead and call this “Dark Friday,” “Dark Horse Friday,” or just “Dark Side Friday,” because Dark Horse Comics is offering an incredible sale for Black Friday that has a collected digital purchase of all of the available Star Wars comics for a mere $100.

Yes, I agree with you, it is a great deal. But it will only last 24 hours on Black Friday, November 25, 2011. This sale offers 134 Star Wars comics for the great deal of $100. That’s less than a dollar an issue with a total savings of over $166 dollars off the retail prices. So, set digital.darkhorse.com as a bookmark, make a reminder on your calendar, just do something because you are not going to want to miss this one! [...]

They may not be “real,” as defined by Webster’s Dictionary, but these stamps designed by Canadian DeviantArtist koinogenki are totally awesome and should by all means exist in The United States so that I might purchase and put them in my fictional stamp collection.

They’re really cool in a sort of pop art, neo deco style that mixes the style of the silver age Batman adapted to the stylish sensibility of Batman: The Animated Series. Anyway, check out the full collection of these Batman stamps below [...]

As a Southern California native I have been spoiled with comic and multimedia conventions. I have San Diego Comic Con to the south and Long Beach Comic Con to the north; the only thing I was missing was a convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Recently, my prayers to various Norse gods were answered in the form of Comikaze held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on November 5 and 6.

When I envision a comic, horror, anime, and gaming convention in its first year, I instantly picture 7 to 10 guys in a very poorly lit motel conference room. Comikaze definitely had its up’s and down’s in terms of pure geek culture you couldn’t ask for something greater, but as someone who is at comic conventions year-round, there was some things left to be desired. I saw a lot of things I liked and a few things I was not so crazy about, so close your eyes (then open them) and let me take you on a journey of L.A’s Comikaze [...]

So, it’s the middle of the month, and cinephiles know what that means. Criterion’s monthly announcement, this time, for the month of February 2012, and what a month it will be.

First, getting it out of the way, there will be one Blu-ray upgrade hitting on February 7th, and it’s a monster. The combination of Chris Marker films, La Jetee and Sans Soleil will be hitting in wonderfully beautiful HD for the first time. The release itself had been hinted at recently with an image posted to Criterion’s Facebook page, and will feature interviews with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin (himself a subject of an upcoming Eclipse release), and a video piece on Marker from Chris Darke, along with two bits of a French TV series, looking at the inspiration for the features [...]

Part of Amazon’s digital rental deal for this weekend is the Chris Evans-starring superhero film Captain America: The First Avenger for only $1.99.

Once you activate the rental through Amazon’s Instant Demand service, you’ll have access to the movie for 48 hours. If you’re interested in purchasing the digital version, the cost is $14.99.

Also, if you’d like to own a physical copy of Captain America: The First Avenger, the Blu-ray/DVD Combo is $15.99 and the DVD is $17.99 (yes, the Blu-ray/DVD Combo is less money!) [...]

Amazon is currently selling the MP3 version of Bon Jovi’s Greatest Hits for only $3.99.

The CD version Greatest Hits is available for $11.99. Both versions contain 16 of the band’s most popular tunes, including classics like “Livin’ On A Prayer,” “You Give Love A Bad Name,” and “Wanted Dead Or Alive,” as well as newer hits like “It’s My Life” and “Have A Nice Day.” [...]

Amazon is currently offering a $40 off the purchase of the video game Lord of the Rings: War in the North for PS3 or Xbox 360, along with The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Blu-ray.

You have to purchase both items together (so put them both in your Cart) in order to get the deal, which is 55% off the total list price. Limit of one promotion per person. This promotion is valid from now until November 19, 2011 [...]

Last week comic book writer-artist Frank Miller decided to share his opinions on the steadily-growing Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread to many major cities around the world. Miller, who’s best known for his acclaimed run on Marvel’s Daredevil — which gave the series its largest readership since its debut — as well as the classic and influential Batman miniseries The Dark Knight Returns and his own creations Sin City and Hard-Boiled, posted his thoughts at his blog. You can read the posting entitled “Anarchy” in full here below [...]

This February Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon bring their epic run on PunisherMAX to an end with PunisherMAX #22. The story began in issue #17 titled “Homeland,” which Marvel will be reprinting for retail in anticipation of the ending of this story arc [...]