Your Week in Geek #1 July 16th, 2010

Welcome to a new, weekly column from the fine people at Modern Day Pirates, to you, the fine readers of Modern Day Pirates.  Herein you will find a round-up of events, releases, and news from the wilds of the internets, distilled here for your reading pleasure.

Movies:

• The first official picture of Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lantern has been released.

It looks expensive.  And Green.

• Kevin Bacon has been cast as the yet-undisclosed villain in the forthcoming X-Men First Class.  (Geeks of Doom)

• Most importantly!  Inception is out today.  If you’ve never allowed Christopher Nolan to blow your mind for two hours, this looks like a great place to start.  Trust me, it doesn’t sound nearly as filthy as I’ve made it out to be.

Television:

• Liveforfilm.com has a great side-by-side comparison of the cast for the upcoming TV series based on Robert Kirkman’s utterly fantastic The Walking Dead. Everything I see, hear and read about this show gets me more and more excited. The above image is no exception.   The show is set to be released in October on AMC, and the first few episodes will be directed by Frank Darabond.

Books and Comics:

• Scott Pilgrim Vol 6: Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour will be released Tuesday, July 20^th.  The final chapter in the series, geeks, nerds and hipsters everywhere will be descending into joy-induced spasms, which should subside just in time for the feature film’s release, August 16^th.

• Brian Clevinger, creator of the webcomic 8-Bit Theater, and author of Atomic Robo (MDP Review of vol 1 & 2 here), will be writing an on-going Captain America series entitled “The Fighting Avenger,” which will look into the formative years of Marvel’s first super-soldier during World War 2.  The first issue will be released this January.

Games:

• Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies for the DS came out this week.  I should be getting my copy in a couple hours—my jones for a well-made, old school JRPG has reached a fever pitch and this is just the fix I need.  A review is, of course, forthcoming.

• Blizzard released the system requirements for Starcraft 2.  They don’t look too brutal.  I won’t list them here, but check them out at Tomshardware.com

• Via Destructoid.com:  There will be no Brutal Legend 2 (article).  I enjoyed Brutal Legend, flawed as it was.  It was fun, funny and the soundtrack rocked harder than the mountains of skulls that marked the landscape of the game—which by the way, was also incredibly metal.  If you never played it, you essentially drove a hot rod around a world every inch of which looked like the cover to a Dio album, and killed things with an axe while listening to Three Inches of Blood, Motorhead, Skeleton Witch and Judas Priest.  It was a love letter to heavy metal, and while the RTS system seemed a bit half-baked, I had high hopes for a sequel.