Every day here at Doom HQ we receive tons of tips from our readers about really cool stuff from the world of geek, as well as promotional materials for new films, comic books, collectibles, and much more. While we do our best to bring you as much of it as possible, we don’t always have enough geek manpower available to cover it all on a daily basis. But we hate the idea of all of this really cool stuff wasting away in our inbox. How could we NOT cover it? Hence why we’ve resurrected our long-defunct column Bits Of Doom, now rebranded and revamped as Doom Digest, a collection of easily digestible bits of news, videos, photos, and other goodies.

Today: Marvel‘s gay marriage announcement, video from Season 3 of The Walking Dead, a Game Of Thrones Iron Throne cake, an alternate photo from The Beatles’ Abbey Road cover photo session, Doctor Who‘s Matt Smith on Top Gear, plus Bits Of Doom.

The Walking Dead

Watch this first video from the upcoming Season 3 of AMC’s The Walking Dead.

[Source via io9]

Game Of Thrones Iron Throne Cake

Planet Cake made this awesome Game Of Thrones Iron Throne cake.

[Source via When Geeks Wed via That’s Nerdalicious]

Marvel’s Gay Marriage Announcement

The news is out! In Astonishing X-Men #50, released today, Northstar proposes to his longtime boyfriend Kyle Jinadu. The announcement was made this week on TV’s The View, which you can watch here below.

[Source: Marvel]

Beatles Abbey Road Photo

This photo from The Beatles‘ Abbey Road cover photo session, taken by Iain Macmillan, sold this week for £16000 at Bloomsbury Auctions.

Photo credit: Iain Macmillan (1938-2006) Abbey Road, 1969 Chromogenic print, printed later, signed and editioned 3/25 in silver pen in the margin, 46.4 x 45.7cm (18 1/4 x 18in)

[Source via guardian.co.uk, Buzzfeed]

Doctor Who’s Matt Smith On Top Gear

Doctor Who‘s Matt Smith made an appearance on this week’s Top Gear.

Bits Of Doom

• Sherlock Season 2 is out on DVD and Blu-ray this week. Enter Geeks Of Doom’s Sherlock Season 2 Prize Pack Contest for a chance to win the DVD and a signed poster.
• Comics scribe Greg Rucka on why he writes “Strong Female Characters.” [io9]
• Brooklyn, NY park to be renamed for the late Adam “MCA” Yauch of The Beastie Boys. [Gothamist]
• Aliens (A Puppet Musical). [SLT via The Mary Sue]
• Disney Fairies Vol. 01 Prillas Talent graphic novel is on sale only for today for $2.39 (down from $7.99).
• Today marks the 28th anniversary of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

We’re ending off this edition of Doom Digest with a video of Kristen Wiig singing “I Love Rock And Roll” with The Foo Fighters at Saturday’s SNL after party. Earlier that night, Wiig had done her last performance as a regular cast member and received an awesome and touching musical farewell. Watch more video from the after party over at Buzzfeed.

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