* Top Shelf is prepping a 400-page alternative manga anthology. Oh boy! (Via Tom Spurgeon.)
* A team-up for the ages, courtesy of Jim Rugg and Copacetic Comics:
(Via JK Parkin.)
* The great Rich Juzwiak of FourFour sounds off on the Saw pandemic.
* Michael Koresky of Reverse Shot makes me even more anxious to see Fear(s) of the Dark and even more grumpy that I inevitably won’t do so while it’s in theaters.
* Reading the critical tea leaves, Marc-Oliver Frisch argues (twice) that much of the blame for Clint Eastwood’s poorly reviewed bit of Angelina Jolie Oscar bait Changeling lies with screenwriter and Spider-Man soiler J. Michael Straczynski. The insertion of a “MILF avatar” concept into the based-on-a-true-story tale was a dead giveaway.
* Your quote of the day comes from Ms. Bai Ling, in a post titled “I landed from the moon to seduce you……”:
Check out on IMDB now, enter my site headline on “Crank 2” news, they use my pictures there to promote the film, but the truth is my character she is so silly and stupid but at the same time she is so brilliantly sucking fantastic, she will make you laugh your nipples out so hard that you will ended up cry for 7days and 7 hours and 7 second……all year long and then you will forget all your misery then you will become her or me, then you will have a fantastic life from that point on, all you have to do is just to dance and laugh and showing your nipples and give joy to others, isn’t it our duty in life on earth just to give and make others happy? I am delightful to be that role and to be in service for you…….
Delightful indeed, Bai Ling. Delightful indeed.
Before I knew JMS wrote it, I remember seeing an interview with Eastwood about the movie where he said that he was uninterested in “Changeling” as a premise but signed on after the script convinced him of its worth. Hm.
Apparently Eastwood has never watched television or read a comic book. I can believe the part about comic books.
Also, Flaming Carrot is a reason to live.