• We have a lot of news out of Comic-Con this weekend, and while I’ve tried to slice off the fantasy portions, I’ve put together something of a Comic-Con Gallery of interesting photos over on the Facebook page of AfterElton.com as the weekend progressed you might like.

• But I’d be remiss if I didn’t say a few things about our superheroes, like the fact that Mark Ruffalo is indeed playing Hulk, and Jeremy Renner is Hawkeye. In fact, here we see The Avengers assemble for the first time: Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Incredible Hulk, and Director Joss Whedon.

• Guillermo del Toro left The Hobbit for a Haunted Mansion movie, but he swears what got people most excited at his panel, “where we had a house at full capacity, with 6000 asses levitated by both pieces of footage” was for his horror film Are You Afraid of the Dark starring Katie Holmes. That’s why she made the front page.

• Supernatural is filming the impossible sixth season, and they swear it doesn’t suck. Dean is living the domestic life for a year, thinking Sam is dead when he gets sucked back into hunting. They also planned a meta episode (my favorites are the meta episodes) about vampires, and how real vampires are having a feeding frenzy because girls want to date Edward Cullen. Supernatural vampires aren’t cuddly like “pasty, waify” vampires from Twilight and Vampire Diaries.

• As long as we’re talking about vampires, you may as well see this trailer for the second half of True Blood. It seems to me we’ve just been setting the pieces in place so far. Things haven’t even begun to get interesting.

• Speaking of vicious vampires, Priest was a big hit at Comic-Con. I don’t know whether to view this as sci-fi or fantasy, but vampires have driven humans into walled cities. Priests are genetically engineered super-soldiers meant to fight them. Let Twilight’s Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, and Karl Urban explain.

• And so you can decide for yourself if these are vampires we’d recognize in any normal sense of the word, here’s the trailer for Priest. I think they’d have Edward Cullen for lunch.

• Dragon Age: Origins announced some upcoming DLC this weekend. Don’t expect much in the way of story: this is a dungeon designed for high-level players to hack their way through hordes of enemies in an unforgiving environment.

• Zack Snyder sat down with MTV to talk about Xerxes. He’s careful not to call it a prequel or a sequel, since the graphic novel they’re using as a book takes place over the same three days as 300 happened. He’s not even against trying to get Gerard Butler into somehow, even if I am.

• The Cape is a weird mix. It seems to have a disgraced cop trying to clear his name donning a costume from one of his son’s comic books, but also using basic magician tricks and illusion in the hunt for bad guys. But some bad guys are better than others since he lives with a group of circus clown bank robbers. I’d watch this one early, because it sounds too weird to gain an audience.

• We got the first trailer of Ironclad at Comic-Con, with Paul Giamatti as King John storming a castle, complete with some major catapults.

• Killruddery House and Gardens (pics at link) has been de-modernized to stand in for the palace in Starz’ Camelot in Northern Ireland. They’ve added replica gates to take the castle back to a more medieval look, and stars Ralph Fiennes and Jamie Campbell-Bowers have already raced up to the front on horseback as Merlin and King Arthur. I have to say it looks more “right” than the French castle they use in Merlin.

• In the side bar on the front page, we’ve been running the teaser for The Goon, the animated zombie film that David Fincher is trying to make. There’s still no studio funding this beyond a short, which is a shame, because I’m not sure we’ve seen anything quite like it before. Here’s the animated short the teaser was cut from. Somebody please make this.

• Most of the UK is buzzing about A Game of Thrones, one of the few properties not at Comic-Con this weekend since they only just began shooting. But they’re calling it the most anticipated television show ever, and the only thing the article compares the show to is Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, which is pretty exclusive company to keep. It also offers the best summary of what it is I’ve read yet, “A Game of Thrones is high fantasy; although with a lot more swords than sorcery. It’s a world of prophecies, exiled princesses, talking crows and magical trees. There’s lots of death and lots of sex; the world is relentlessly bleak and war is hell.” This is also the first place I remember reading that the BBC has a stake in the show, which will matter to our British readers.

• On Friday we mentioned Drive Angry 3D, and showed some demonic concept art. The first footage that was released doesn’t really show any of that, just Nic Cage playing the same Nic Cage character he always plays, this time with a more traditional hairpiece than The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

• Thor is a weird property: he’s a Norse God, but he exists in the same Marvel universe as Iron Man’s technology. So it should be as no surprise when he falls to earth, cast out by Odin, he’s taken to an Area-51 style facility. But the reports out of Comic-con say that while he is a God, science is king to the story, and most of it takes place on Earth. Here’s Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston (Loki) in front of Odin’s throne, with the Destroyer armor behind them.

• Another big movie with a lot of expectations is Let Me In, which is an American remake of the classic Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In. There’s been much discussion about whether this remake was necessary, but I’ll be honest, it’s tough to maintain tension with an American audience with subtitles.

• But while the poster is bleak, I’m not going to lie to you, Marge, the trailer creeps me out. Children as vampires isn’t often done, and in most cases they’re considered abominations, and this doesn’t seem to be the route they’re taking here. Color me intrigued.

• And finally, I know this column is long, and it’s epic, but I can’t leave without sharing the sizzle reel for Mega Python vs. Gatoroid from SyFy. It’s got teen queens Deborah Gibson and Tiffany in an epic fight scene worthy of Dynasty, and Tiffany’s cleavage is working overtime.

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