* Clive Barker decries PG-13 horror as insufficiently dangerous. B-Sol quibbles.
* Related: John Harrison, director of the upcoming Barker adaptation Book of Blood, refers to the film as more character-driven than splatteriffic. (Via Bloody Disgusting.)
* Matthew Perpetua links to an old Hard Copy story on that time the FBI mistook part of the video for Nine Inch Nails’ “Down in It” for a snuff film. That never happened to Stabbing Westward.
* Douglas Wolk annotates Grant Morrison and Dough Mahnke’s event comic/Supermen team-up/Watchmen fanfic Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1.
* My experience with RPGs is limited to one lovely, beery summer between freshman and sophomore year in college, but I still found Bruce Baugh’s look at early D&D guidebooks fascinating as an examination of how imagination and play can be given structure and stricture of varying efficacy.