* A whole bunch of Frank Miller/The Spirit news came out of New York Comic Con, including some more posters and an enjoyably Sin City-ish teaser trailer. (Via AICN.)
* For my money the most interesting Miller tidbit has to do with another project entirely: Miller himself is hoping/planning to direct an adaptation of his and Geof Darrow’s gonzo sci-fi masterpiece Hard Boiled. As MTV points out, this project was originally associated with Nicolas Cage and David Fincher. (Also via AICN.)
* And at Entertainment Weekly, Miller and his producer Deborah Del Prete talk turkey about the Spirit adaptation, while Miller reveals he’s 122 pages into a new book that’s a “love letter to New York”–presumably not Holy Terror, Batman!, then–and that he’s finished writing Sin City 2 with an eye on an eventual third film as well. (Via Kevin Melrose.)
* Speaking of films that irritate Ron Rosenbaum, Uma Thurman tells MTV that Quentin Tarantino is indeed working on that big final all-in-one deluxe DVD version of Kill Bill, aka The Whole Bloody Affair, AND at least one of his proposed anime prequel/sequel/whatevers involving the KB characters–the latter will be used as a bridge/intermission to create the former. Based on Tarantino’s previous statements and Thurman saying she hasn’t done any voice work for the cartoon, it seems like Bill will be the subject of the new material rather than the Bride. (Via Rob Bricken at Topless Robot.)
* Ammon Gilbert of Arrow in the Head pays homage to one of the two great ultraviolent Communist-invasion action films of the ’80s, Red Dawn. (That’s the one involving teenaged Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, and Jennifer Grey avenging the imprisonment of Harry Dean Stanton–and who wouldn’t?–not the one involving Chuck Norris shooting people in shopping malls.)
* The Blot‘s Tom Neely keeps on killin’ the game with his weekly comic strips. Goddammit, look at those palm trees.
* Water Monsters in the News: Loren Coleman notes a report of an alligator in a New Hampshire pond, which is neat enough, but in so doing he breaks down the differing types of unusual-alligator reports: stray pets or zoo animals vs. expanding habitat vs. actual out-of-place breeding populations vs. genuine cryptid lake monsters. Dreamy stuff.
* All Too Infrequent T-Shirt Blogging: Whitney Matheson notes that CNN.com now has T-shirt-making functionality for some of its video-news headlines. That is very bizarre and very cool.
* Finally, I hope to have a nice Lost post up later today in time for the return of the show–I was gonna include that stuff here but it probably merits its own post. So stay tuned.