* Big news: The Gordon Lee case has been dismissed, presumably due to egregious prosecutorial misconduct. This is a big day for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and a big day for comics, a medium that stands on shaky ground with regards to free speech issues. (Via Tom Spurgeon.)
* Fangoria speaks to Clive Barker about the current status of the Hellraiser remake, his Harry D’Amour/Pinhead epic The Scarlet Gospels, the next Abarat book, and the film adaptation of The Thief of Always.
* Tom Spurgeon reviews Joshua W. Cotter’s knockout Skyscrapers of the Midwest.
Lee also did some crimefighting of his own a few months ago. (The news story refers to his trial as a “brush with the law.” Quite some brush, that!)