Geeky pumpkins carvings come in all shapes and sizes -- as with this spooky celebration of next year's most evil FPS, The Darkness II by NYC gourd artist (gourdist?) Hugh McMahon. Below are ten other hauntingly clever jack o' lanterns featuring all of your fave geek icons! (special thanks to Ryan Rayhill for his help with this post)

10. Doctor Horrible: There's nothing horrible about this pumpkin inspired by the cult Joss Whedon musical tragicomedy (via Purple House Blog)

 

9. ThunderCats: This neat ThunderCats logo carving is by SaGeiger26 at deviantART!

 

8. Death Star: Here is a creative pumpkin carving every Star Wars fan can appreciate. (Found at Noel's Pumpkin Carving Archive) Read More...

Last year, author and general all around cool dude Neil Gaiman made a modest proposal (that had nothing to do with eating human beings): how about we give away books on Halloween instead of – or even in addition to – candy? I read about this on Twitter, and though I like to read, and I love Halloween, I was a little, shall we say, doubtful, that kids would want reading material instead of candy bars.

Regardless, I sat out on my front steps in a highly trafficked area of Brooklyn with a huge tub of delicious candy, and a longbox full of comics. I told kids they could have either, a comic book, or a piece of candy, or one of both, it was up to them – expecting that I would truck my comics upstairs at the end of the night, and be left sadly candy free. To say I was wrong is an understatement. In under an hour, I had to go back upstairs three times to restock the comic book box, eventually giving away over 400 all ages comics to kids, while the candy bowl sat, mostly untouched. And not to go over the top, but it really was one of the most exciting, heart-warming, and rewarding experiences I’ve ever had. Read More...

Exert your dominance over pitiful humans in Conquest of Planet Earth

If you're looking for "The Creepiest Halloween BOO-ard Games Part 1" you'll have to steer your browser back more than a year to find my very first post here on MTV Geek. As you can imagine, it holds a special place in my heart: the place that likes to see psychos wield knives and monsters terrorize old ladies.

Looking back on that list just makes you realize how tightly interwoven the hobby gaming and horror fandoms have become. Since all of the games from last year's list were no more than a few years old, the only way to top that is a Halloween-themed list of shiny new 2011 releases. Unless you're already a board game addict, you probably haven't played any of these yet, so shamble over to your local game store and grab one for your next party.

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Halloween is almost here! And to celebrate we're scaring up a killer Twitter Giveaway for all you gore-hound Tweeters out there!

Two if our lucky Twitter followers will win a gruesomely geeky Halloween prize pack made up of a dizzying array of spooktacular comics, toys, movies and more!

Check out the goods! Each prize pack includes: Read More...

Comic book characters are usually perfect Halloween costume fodder. They’re big, bold, and often, easily purchasable at your local dress-up-atorium. But there are some graphically inspired costumes that are a little, how do you say, graphic to wear outside. Here are ten comic book characters we DON’T recommend dressing up as for Halloween (that is, if you actually want to get some candy):

10. Big Wheel

One of the biggest problems we see with Halloween costumes are apparatuses that are just too ungainly to wear all night long. They’re heavy, you can’t move well, and if you’ve done them right, it’s impossible to go to the bathroom. It was a toss-up on this one between Big Wheel and Stiltman, but Big Wheel won.

9. Sexy Doop

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Welcome to Crossovers We Want to See, a fairly self-explanatory recurring feature in which we pitch the meeting of a pair of characters or teams from different comic companies. Playing editor, we'll dream up writer and artist combinations and basic story points.

Just A Pilgrim vs. The Great Pumpkin
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Since 2004, Cassie Hack has been going to toe-to-toe (or bat-to-machete) with the evilest, most brutal of horror movie slashers both classic and created. From demented doll, Chucky to Re-Animator's Herbert West. Tim Seely, the writer and artist behind Hack/Slash has plunged his "final girl" Cassie and her "gentle giant" partner, Vlad into the craziest, bloodiest and most fun scenarios in horror comics today.

The seeds of the series were planted while Seely was sick in bed around Halloween and found himself watching horror movie marathon after horror movie marathon. "There's a world here. It all takes place in the same place and they all have the same rules," he realized. "It kind of just became the universe of the horror movie sequel was just one place, and here's this girl and her friend who walk around in it." Read More...

This weekend brings Halloween in full force... on a Sunday. Sucks, right? Practically everybody is gonna be celebrating on Saturday night instead, and getting embarrassingly drunk while wearing a Batman costume, just isn't gonna have the same air of importance.  However, scary s@#t is fun all year round, and we here at MTV Geek! are happy to present the Top Ten Scariest Action Figures of All Time!

Most of the toys featured have been long sold out (or burned by angry mobs), and these plastic effigies may induce vomiting, spark hallucinations, and/or cause involuntary urination; so, if you can find them, it'll be like the tail-end of a Halloween party all year round!  Without further ado, lets bring on the freaks! Read More...

Looking for something different to try on Halloween? Zombies, Vampires, and all things spooky aren’t just for movies and books; they make for some great board and card games as well. Face it, you are a little old for trick-or-treating, so grab a few drinks, pull up a chair, and break out one of these great games.

Last Night on Earth

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It’s almost time people! Halloween is practically upon us, and you need to hurry up picking out a costume! What’s that? You have no costume ideas? Seriously?! Well, lucky for you, we here at MTV Geek! are stepping in to save the day by hooking you up with some awesome suggestions for this October 31st!

Behold in unspeakable awe, and/or point while laughing snarkily, at our Top Ten Geek-ily Awesome Halloween Costumes! Read More...

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