* First we learned that Lionsgate was pushing back the release of the upcoming Clive Barker adaptation The Midnight Meat Train. Then (i.e. this morning) we find out that they may have once again shortened the title to the Pips-esque Midnight Train (prompting hyuk-hyuk approval from the same doof who was baffled by what The Ruins was about.) And now we discover that, meaty or meatless, it’s going straight to DVD. For crying out loud.
* Here’s another bummer: Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, and David Aja, the founding creative team of The Immortal Iron Fist—the best superhero comic of 2007—are leaving the book.
* B-Sol at the Vault of Horror serves up another of his sharp overviews of horror-movie history. This time he’s kicking off a series of posts on the modern zombie movie with a look at the early years of the genre, starting with its foundational text, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, and the “rules” for zombie behavior it established.
* And here’s the first of a weekly series of interviews with Battlestar Galactica writer/producer Mark Verheiden over at ComicMix. Okay, I feel a little better about life now.