* In case you missed ’em, I recently reviewed The Complete Persepolis and (repackaged from The Comics Journal‘s Best of 2003 issue) Mother, Come Home. New reviews go up first thing every Monday/Wednesday/Friday.
* The main news I was waiting for now that the strike is over: Lost honcho Carlton Cuse announces that Season Four will now have 13 episodes instead of 16, while those three extra episodes will be added to Season Five, now 19 episodes long.
* Turnabout is fair play: Warner Bros. is being sued by Fox over the film rights to Watchmen. (Via Kevin Melrose.)
* Here’s the correct link for that Joe Lynch interview I mentioned the other day. UPDATE: Goddammit, got it wrong again! Fixed now.
* Check out the badass zombie-centric cover art for the 25th anniversary rerelease of Michael Jackson’s amazing album Thriller. (Via Uncrate.)
And here’s my argument for why the title track’s video belongs in the horror pantheon, btw.