Comic Review: 'I Am Legend: Awakening'

WEEK OF GEEK SERIES: I AM LEGEND: PART V

DC/Vertigo has created a free online comic book that serves as a prequel to the upcoming Warner Bros. film, I Am Legend, which sees a deadly virus leave one human survivor on Earth (Will Smith starring as Robert Neville) amongst a newly formed race of humans-turned-vampire/zombies.

There are four issues in the online series, titled I Am Legend: Awakening, set in the world of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend and told through the experiences of some of the earlier survivors before the introduction of Robert Neville. The virus at this point has killed off many people, but those who've survived are either immune or infected, the latter transformed into vampire-like beings who, after dark, prey on the living...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

'I Am Legend' Week at Geeks of Doom

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Here at Geeks of Doom, we're gearing up for the release of I Am Legend, Warner Bros' film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith, which opens on December 14, 2007 in conventional and IMAX theaters. All this week, we'll be posting I Am Legend-related content, so check back each day for new features.

To get us started, here's a list of I Am Legend tidbits around the Web...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

Movie Review: 30 Days Of Night

30 Days Of Night
Directed by David Slade
Written by Steve Niles, Stuart Beattie, Brian Nelson
Produced by Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert
Starring Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Mark Boone Junior, Ben Foster
Rated R
Adapted from 30 Days Of Night (IDW Publishing)

I don't know why we never thought of it. No sunlight for weeks on end. -- Marlow, 30 Days Of Night graphic novel

The town of Barrow, Alaska, is the most northern city of the United States. And for thirty days out of the years, the sun does not rise. On the day of the last sunset for the next month, Sheriff Eben (Josh Hartnett) finds a series of bizarre vandalisms that he can't quite place why they would be done. It culminates with his meeting of a stranger in the town's dinner, who is becoming increasingly hostile because they won't serve him a bowl of raw hamburger. Eben believes that this stranger is the cause of the crimes, but has no idea that this man is merely the scout for something much, much worse...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!