* If you liked what I had to say about post-Comic-Con second-guessing, you’ll also like what Matt Maxwell says about it.
* No sooner does the Clive Barker Books of Blood adaptation Midnight Meat Train get buried than the viral marketing campaign for the Clive Barker Books of Blood adaptation Dread kicks off.
* Will I go see McG’s crappy new Terminator movie just because Christian Bale and Helena Bonham Carter are in it? Maybe.
* Jon Hastings rambles about various Crisis and Grant Morrison comics. I mean “ramble” in the best way.
* Do you think he’ll condescend to his paycheck, too?
* John Scalzi’s take on the discovery of 125,000 western lowland gorillas lines up pretty neatly with my own.
* Paul Pope posted a new cover for Heavy Liquid, but it’s gone now. Details about the new edition are still there, though.
* Sammy Harkham has unveiled the cover for Kramers Ergot 7, a bargain at any price.
* Kevin Huizenga has unveiled the cover for Or Else #5. Ditto.
* As happy as I’ll be when disco is officially reclaimed as cool (and we’re already well on our way), I’m also going to be grumpy about it, because the pleasure of reading the liner notes to a Barry White best-of collection in 1997 and suddenly “getting” the genre and loving it for years all on my lonesome is undeniable.
“director on such films as Planet of the Apes”
That’s a low blow.
What’s that he said in Planetary #7? “Time to move on. Time to be someone else.”
THIS is why I buy Thunderbolts even though it’s toothless, or Newuniversal even though it’s sloppy. Because every dollar he makes from me because of those books is one more twist of the knife.