* Another lovely one-sheet poster for The Midnight Meat Train (and hey, the definite article is back!) has been released. Note the refreshingly unique presence of a meat tenderizer as the weapon of choice. (Via Bloody Disgusting.)
* Go listen to Tom Spurgeon, Dan Nadel, and Jeet Heer in a must-listen critical roundtable on the comics radio show Inkstuds. (Just make sure to skip past the opening 12 minutes or so of audiocollage.) I particularly enjoyed Heer’s observation that comics’ growth tends to be in fits and starts and dead-ends rather than cumulative. (Via Tom Spurgeon.)
* BC at Horror Movie a Day’s take on Dragon Wars lines up pretty neatly with mine. He also points out the presence of Chris “Hank Jennings” Mulkey, who between this and Cloverfield is becoming quite the battle-scarred veteran of giant-monster invasions of major U.S. metropolitan areas.
* Rob Humanick disliked Saw II and really effin’ hated Saw III.
* Finally, in perhaps the most horror-inflected of all the major religions’ annual rites, Shiite Muslims royally fuck themselves up in Ashoura processions, some of which have been bloodily attacked by millennialist cults.
