Carnival of souls

* Hot damn: full transcript and YouTube video of the Grant Morrison/Clive Barker panel at Meltdown Comics a few weeks back! You want some quotes? It’s fascinating to watch their respective, different preoccupations emerge during a conversation about the same topics. VV good stuff. (Via Heidi MacDonald.)

* In other Barker news, his next comic project will be a 3-D effort called Seduth.

* Tom Spurgeon reviews Jacques Tardi’s excellent thriller West Coast Blues, about which more later.

* In addition to crossing the 1,000,000 Twitter-follower threshold this week, my friend Ryan “Agent M” Penagos interviewed Michael Ian Black of The State and Michael & Michael Have Issues, which has been very funny so far.

* Geoff Johns is taking a crack at the Shazam! screenplay. Start holding your breath!

* Looks like that Pinhead/Freddy/Jason/Michael poker game art I linked to the other day was by Ray Frenden, not Charles Burns.