* I’ve got one last Comic-Con piece up at CBR, an interview with writer Brian Reed on the upcoming video game Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.

* Everyone’s linking to Tom Spurgeon’s review of Runes of Ragnan, but only because it really deserves to be linked to by everyone.

* The end is not the end: Edward James Olmos will be directing a two-hour Battlestar Galactica movie about the Cylons’ doings in the immediate aftermath of their apocalyptic attack on the Colonies, to air after the series finale. (Via AICN.)

* AMC is developing a series based on Francis Ford Coppola’s comparatively forgotten ’70s masterpiece, The Conversation. I hope it will air, but I have a feeling they’d kill it if they had the chance. (Also via AICN.)

* Whoa, one of the people Viggo Mortensen will be running into on The Road is Omar Little?

Full gallery and little article at USA Today. It looks good. (Via Dread Central.)

* Matt Maxwell notes that in moving to San Francisco, the X-Men franchise isn’t really saying anything it hasn’t said before. The funny thing is that I think it’s saying even less than it used to. When House of M got rid of all the everyday run-of-the-mill mutants, leaving us pretty much just with the ones who fight each other for a living, I remember Joe Quesada saying he did this because the existence of millions of mutants took us away from the concept’s central persecuted-minority metaphor. This, of course, only makes sense if there are just 198 gay people or black people or Jewish people or geeks in the world. One of the many great things about Grant Morrison’s New X-Men was that the book was finally acknowledging the way minority culture could quickly become majority culture, and how maligned subcultures can indeed force the world at large to chance. Now, instead of having a franchise mapped to the explosive rise of hip-hop culture or the increasing prominence of homosexuals, there’s a couple hundred of them cowering in San Francisco.

* Douglas Wolk is back with annotations for the crackerjack Final Crisis #3.

* Writing for Topless Robot, Patrick Cooper runs down The 8 Worst Things in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. I think you could probably do eighty before needing to rope in the really pretty rad Ewok TV movies. (The Gorax, yo!) A strict swap with Prince Xizor would be acceptable.

* And Now the Screaming Starts’ CRwM catches a New York Times piece on a faux-Coney Island attraction called the Waterboard Thrill Ride, actually an art installation highlighting the banal awfulness of our Guantanamo Bay torture regime. Step right up.

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