Title: Glee: Season 2, Volume 1
Format: DVD
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Diana Agron, Chris Colfer, Jessalyn Gilsig, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Mark Salling, Jenna Ushkowitz, Naya Rivera, Heather Morris
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Review by: Sarah Kumley
The Season
Glee has become a runaway hit in the last year and a half. The show, in case you haven’t already heard, is about some misfit kids and some popular ones coming together to sing and dance in a school glee club. Despite having almost won regionals last year, the kids in New Directions are still viewed as outcasts and are often on the receiving end of slushie facials. They aren’t deterred and begin recruiting for new members. Through the first half of the second season, old relationships end, new relationships begin and the group’s solidarity is rocked by some new challenges. (more…)
Where to start with the wrap-up of an event so awe-inspiring, gigantic, amazing, frustrating and baffling as Comic-Con International. My first year out at the show (we’ll see if it’s the “first of many” or “also the last”) was a learning experience to say the very least. 
While Bill spent most of his time at Comic-Con International 2009 playing game demos, attending panels and spending all of his money in the exhibit hall, Sarah was also hard at work, snapping the shutter at all of the sights in and around the convention center in San Diego. Her photos have appeared throughout the Comic-Con coverage, but many had no place in specific posts. So this entry from Comic-Con features the best of the rest of Sarah’s photos from San Diego. Click any of the images to open full size in a new window. Enjoy! 
We stopped by the Electronic Arts booth Thursday, July 23, to get a go with The Saboteur. Friday, July 24, was another big video gaming day for Pads & Panels. THQ invited us by the company’s booth in the exhibit hall in the morning to check out Darksiders, while Sega ended the night with a few free drinks and food at the Hard Rock for a special Bayonetta preview party. Without further adieu, Pads & Panels reports on our hands-on time with all three games. 
The official first day of Chicago Comic-Con began with Marvel’s Ultimate Panel moderated by Jim McCann, with panelists Editor Mark Paniccia, Assistant Editor Lauren Sankovich and returning writer Mark Millar. This was Marvel’s first opportunity to publicly reveal new details for the line’s reboot after the major Ultimatum wave, and their excitement rang true. 
Not wanting to be outdone by the Microsoft Party covered in the last Comic-Con post, Sony threw a cocktail party of its own July 23 at the Hard Rock Hotel, with a slew of games to play, along with the requisite food and drinks. Pads & Panels had a chance to go hands on with Fat Princess (review coming soon), Heavy Rain, and God of War III. 
Microsoft held a media reception and party July 23, providing Pads & Panels a chance to not only have a few free drinks and finger food, but more importantly get another go with Left 4 Dead 2, this time with a new section of “The Parish,” as well as Halo: ODST and South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! The cast of The Guild was even on hand, treating party-goers to their renditions of the Fab Four’s tunes in Rock Band: Beatles. I even had a chance to play a few minutes of ODST with Vincent Caso, who plays Bladezz on The Guild. He was called away after only a few minutes, but I was totally kicking his ass. 
Microsoft invited us over to the Omin Hotel July 23 to get into a nice, air-conditioned executive skybox suite for 30-minute meetings away from the flatulence-heavy exhibit floor over at the San Diego Convention Center. It was nice. While we were there, we also sat down with developers to get demonstrations of Shadow Complex and Alan Wake. 
While Pads & Panels doesn’t generally dabble in the world of television and film unless it directly ties into our world of gaming and comics, at least three of us on the staff are big fans of the killer Showtime drama/thriller Dexter. As it turns out, so are the gaming PR people over at Sandbox Strategies, who are handling promotional duties for the upcoming Dexter iPhone game. And we were more than happy to take that connection to the gaming world as an opening July 23 to check out the Dexter press conference, attend a Hollywood-style rooftop party in San Diego with the cast and crew and even ask show star Michael C. Hall a question about his involvement with the game. 
For fans of the McManus brothers and clan, this sequel has been a long time coming. Following The Boondock Saints, in which fraternal twin brothers take it upon themselves to rid their Boston neighborhood of the mafia, Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day has been 10 years in the making. The plot of the movie was kept quiet at the Comic-Con panel and was still not evident after the trailer was shown. 