* J. Michael Straczynski elaborates on his decision to leave his monthly comics for writing original graphic novels and limited series. His characterization of the delays on his Marvel series The Twelve as being due to him waiting for artist Chris Weston to catch up to him rather than the other way around is the first time I’ve heard that series’ problems explained in quite that way.
* Here’s a pair of fun Grant Morrison interviews, first with IGN on his Batman run and then with my pal Rick Marshall from MTV’s Splash Page on Sinatoro, his upcoming film collaboration with Adam Mortimer.
* Matt Fraction, live in conversation with C.F. and Brian Chippendale? My goodness!
* This Bruce Baugh World of Warcraft post on an end-times cult currently plaguing the game may be my favorite post in his recent WoWblogging resurgence. The game’s about to undergo a major overhaul that they’re tying to an in-story near-apocalyptic event, and so they created an end-times cult. Brilliant.
* Rick Trembles’s Motion Picture Purgatory comic on the I Spit on Your Grave remake struck me, a person who’s seen neither the original nor the remake, as thoughtful and thought-provoking.
* LOVE AND ROCKTOBER: Mome standout Derek Van Gieson contributes cover versions of panels by Jaime and Gilbert to Repaneled.
* Real Life Horror: The Republican Party’s repeated intimations of militarization have disturbing implications.
* Finally, here’s your latest portrait of the State of the Awful (links to previous entries in this series may be found here and here): Inside the fiction-for-hire factory of notorious fabulist James Frey. My skin crawled. (Via Alex Segura.)
Turns out that the next phase of the Cataclysm precursor is underway tonight, so I’ll have a weekend update with that and the stuff I didn’t get good pictures of so far. 🙂
That James Frey thing is unbelievable. He sounds like Satan.