* Chris Mautner has completed his two-part interview with Cold Heat‘s Frank Santoro.
* Stacie Ponder at Final Girl really liked 28 Weeks Later.
* Seeing the pair of images that cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier pulled to illustrate his post on No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood reminded me just how deeply indebted to horror both movies are.
* Rodents of unusual size? Turns out they exist after all, or at least they did 2-4 million years ago in Uruguay, where rats the size of cars roamed the earth. Loren Coleman has the scoop.
* Aeron at Monster Brains presents a gallery of images depicting the Harrowing of Hell, a fascinating medieval religious concept in which Jesus raided the inferno to rescue the righteous dead during the three days between his crucifixion and resurrection.
* Paul Pope quotes Carlos Clarens about the scare potential of dehumanization/automatonization in sci-fi/horror.
Carnival of souls
* Comics Journal critics Craig Fischer and Charles Hatfield discuss my favorite superhero title on the stands at the moment, The Immortal Iron Fist. * Hatfield also analyzes a killer page from Chester Brown’s autobio masterpiece I Never Liked You….