* Sean Update: I’ve got a bunch of stuff floating around in hard copy these days. First up: ToyFare #143, featuring the sensational character find of May 2009–BIZARROBAMA!–in Twisted ToyFare Theater, plus brief plugs for Bat for Lashes’ Two Suns, David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp, and SubwayNow.com. (What a gig!) Second, the latest issue of Wizard, which features short articles on Ross Campbell’s Wet Moon, Tom Neely & Aaron Turner’s The Wolf (check out Tom’s site for a peak at the article), and a lengthy profile of Fantagraphics that I’m quite proud of. I think we’re just a couple weeks away from a Maxim piece I’m pretty excited about, too.
* AICN has a brief three-page preview of Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely’s Batman and Robin.
* Hostel director and Inglourious Basterds star Eli Roth talks to Empire about his next two movies: a biggish-budget sci-fi picture called Endangered Species and a full-length version of his Grindhouse faux-trailer Thanksgiving. Sure, I’ll eat ’em. (Via STYD.)
* The State of the Beast: Spanish bullfighter Israel Lancho was horribly gored during a bullfight. In related news, bulls are horribly gored during every bullfight. Sorry, I really have nothing becoming to say about this.
* Torture Link of the Day: More on whether or not the Obama-suppressed torture photos show rape.
* And on those up notes, have a wonderful weekend!
Aaron Turner is working with Neely! James Turner was that guy who couldn’t get his comic in previews or whatever
Salon is reporting “Retired Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba denied reports that he has seen the prisoner-abuse photos that President Obama is fighting to keep secret, in an exclusive interview with Salon Friday night.”
Apparently he claimed to have seen previously released images – several of which are Google-able, though horrible – while investigating the abuse case. He did not claim to have seen the ones Obama is keeping under wraps. The Brit press seems to have simply assumed what Taguba saw and what Obama is hiding were one and the same. Horton seems to have made this same unproven assumption following their lead. Sullivan, while at least citing his source, seems uncritical of same.
Salon is reporting: “Retired Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba denied reports that he has seen the prisoner-abuse photos that President Obama is fighting to keep secret, in an exclusive interview with Salon Friday night.”
Apparently the Brit press simply drew the conclusion that the images Taguba saw while investigating the abuse case – images that are apparently already leaked and Google-able, they’ve been around since the Specialist England thing blew up – without Taguba telling them that it was the case. Horton from the Daily Beast then accepted this dubious premise and used the previously leaked photos as proof that he was correct; though the existence of these previous photos does not necessarily mean that they are the same ones Obama is hiding. Sullivan, while citing his source, seems to be acting as an equally uncritical echo chamber for the idea that Taguba’s photos are necessarily Obama’s photos.
We still don’t know what’s in the unreleased photos. Though, honestly, it is most likely heartbreaking.