We at Geeks of Doom love Halloween. The smell in the air, the leaves changing color to mark the occasion, and all of the old edited horror movies playing over and over on your TV make it one of the most entertaining and exciting times of year.

Back in 2006, we compiled a list of some of the best geek costumes on the market for those of you who do not yet have an idea as to what you want to be. It’s already been three years now, so we thought it was about time to compile another epic list of costume options for the undecided (which includes myself).

While checking these costumes out, keep some things in mind — most importantly: pretty much every costume that you see will have multiple styles of varying price and quality. The majority of the ones we have here are in the $30-$50 range, but you can find really high-quality “Deluxe” versions of the costume that will run you in the $100-$200 dollar range. These are for the folks who have money to spare and love authenticity. If you’re out of your freakin’ mind, there’s even Batman and Darth Vader costumes that will run you $700+ dollars. If you don’t like the one we’ve linked to, just search the character and check out all of the others that exist. Most costumes have children’s versions available, too. We’ve included some great kids’ costumes, but if you find an adult one you’d like for the little ones, just search it out!

Also worth keeping in mind: a lot of these costumes have female counter-costumes that would be perfect for couples looking to match up. Oh, and it won’t be stupid like going as a plug and an electrical socket. Tee-hee.

Many, many costume options were found for men, women, children, and pets, so please continue on and check some of them out!

Of all of the Marvel superhero movies that will fuse into each other on May 4, 2012 when The Avengers is released, Jon Favreau‘s Iron Man (and soon to be Iron Man 2) is probably the universal favorite. The director’s careful handling of the character and wonderful job of adding a sense of realism for us all to relate to made him the unanimous choice of fans worldwide to take up the reigns and direct The Avengers, and it was one of the big questions in recent times. Favreau recently spoke to MTV about the whole thing, and confirmed that he would unfortunately not be directing the ultimate superhero movie, and also about the task of bringing all of these larger-than-life characters together in one movie.

While in Bora Bora for a Couples Retreat junket, Favreau made it quite clear that he would not be directing Avengers because he will not be available to do it. No word on exactly what he’s doing that will be taking up his time in 2012 (though that end of the world thing may take up some schedules), but one has to imagine that as a director, he doesn’t want to get stuck in one genre forever.

Favreau also went on to talk about the difficulty in taking all of these comic characters with their own big movies, and putting them into one giant movie. He seemed particularly concerned with his Iron Man efforts being handled by someone else.

Click over to see what Jon Favreau had to say.

Legion of Super-Heroes
Volume 3
Animated
Warner Home Entertainment
Release Date: September 9, 2008

Like a weird mix between The Batman and The Incredibles, dropping down the recommended viewing age by 10 years, The Legion of Super-Heroes is surely a big hit with the kids. And starting out with volume 3 hasn’t seemed to leave me missing information or out of the loop.

Released on the 9th, Volume 3 continues the Legion’s adventures in the 31st century. With a young Superman in the lead, along with Brainiac-5, Volume 3 sees Bouncing Boy (why I’ve no idea), Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, and Triplicate Girl battling to uphold the laws of the United Planets.

With a mediocre summer now behind them, Fox Studios are apparently planning a strategy meeting to assess the future of its superhero properties. Being the only studio not to have a movie gross over $100 million in the summer (its closest was What Happens in Vegas at $80.2), and with the superhero genre being the flavor of the month, it would seem like the wisest choice.

But Fox are coming up against a lot of opposition.

First of all is the lawsuit against Warner Bros., revolving around Fox’s attempt to halt the release of Watchmen next March. Fanboys and girls across the planet are threatening to boycott Fox films, such as the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine, if Fox continue through with their threat.

But Fox has a much larger problem at hand. Whereas WB has the full DC catalog of stars available to them to make movies (granted, it’s not as if they’re doing anything with them), Fox has only a few properties, including the X-Men and Daredevil. This is due to Marvel’s decision to branch out on its own, a decision which has definitely paid off.