* OMFG KATE WINSLET

(Via Jason Adams.)

* Another massive, massive interview with Clive Barker has been posted at his official (and sadly RSS-less) site Revelations. Topics include the fourth and fifth Abarat books, the film adaptations of Midnight Meat Train, Dread, and The Book of Blood, and a lengthy stroll through Barker’s prodigious notes on various and sundry other projects past, present, and future. Two-dicked demons are mentioned, as is so often the way of such interviews. (Via Dread Central.)

* Lots of news on George A. Romero’s next Dead film: USA Today quotes Romero as saying that the film will be about a factional schism between people who want to kill the zombies and people who hope they can be cured. Dread Central clarifies a point made in the USAT article regarding the return of characters from Land and Diary, saying that while some actors will return, there will be no characters from the former and only arguably one from the latter. Fangoria doubles down on the “character from Diary returns” angle as confirmed by executive producer Peter Grunwald, and characterizes the film as the story of a Hatfield/McCoy-type rivalry inspired by the William Wyler Western The Big Country. I just hope it’s not a terrible, terrible movie like Diary was.

* I don’t do industry commentary that much anymore, but the other day Tom Spurgeon posted a long piece on the possible ramifications of the recession on comics, and I submitted a brief reaction to it.

* Also at Tom’s you’ll find my response to his latest Five for Friday reader-participation feature, about scary comics moments. You’ll really want to click over to this one–the responses, and the illustrations, are pretty unnerving.

* The story of how Terrence Howard lost his job as War Machine in the Iron Man sequel is actually kind of funny–apparently he was a bit of a dick on set of the first flick, but more amusingly he was paid more than Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, or Gwyneth Paltrow because he was the first person Marvel Studios signed and in retrospect they realized they fucked up.

* Jeph Loeb is the worst of the eight to twelve contemporary superhero comics writers who can sell a project on their name alone. Apparently he didn’t do such a hot job on TV either, because he’s been fired from Heroes.

* My pal Ben Morse tells the tale of a Wizard feature we never got off the ground–the mother of all “who would win in a fight?” features, limited to hand-to-hand specialists. It woulda been sweet.

* “Barbara?” “Yes, Bruce.” “Is the water warm enough?” “Yes, Bruce.” “Shall we begin?” “Yes, Bruce.” (Via Kevin Melrose.)

* Finally, please do your part to end the bottomless horror of America’s torture regime, a horror I foolishly and disgracefully supported, by voting for Barack Obama tomorrow.

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