* Your quote of the day comes from the State’s Kevin Allison:

The State is doing a special for Comedy Central in 2009, and we’re finally releasing the box-set of our MTV series in the spring.

I’ll see it when I believe it, as they say. (Via Whitney Matheson.) Sadly, unless something massive and wonderful changed regarding clearances, the official DVDs will lack the original series’ ruthlessly dead-on and era-specific MTV-style music cues. I’m as much of fan of the Shudder to Think guy’s pastiches as anyone who’s seen Velvet Goldmine and Wet Hot American Summer a double-digit number of times, but without “Cannonball,” the pants sketch is just not gonna be the same.

* Guillermo Del Toro wants Mike Mignola to do design work for The Hobbit and its sequel. Two great tastes that taste weird together if you ask me. (Via Jason Adams.)

* National security blogger Spencer Ackerman doesn’t much care for Brian Michael Bendis and Leinil Francis Yu’s Marvel event comic Secret Invasion. There’s a lot of that going around, but what’s particularly interesting about Ackerman’s take is that he rightly points out just how much squandered potential there was in the basic concept. As Americans we’ve learned an awful lot about militant religious zealotry, terrorist infiltration, and foreign invasion and occupation over the past few years, but you wouldn’t know it from reading Secret Invasion, a book ostensibly about militant religious zealotry, terrorist infiltration, and foreign invasion and occupation. Ackerman also points out that even if Bendis had really delved into these issues–which I think we can agree make for more interesting plot mechanics than seven issues of inconclusive mob scenes in New York and the Savage Land–the story would pretty much just be Battlestar Galactica.

* Speaking of BSG, the show returns on January 16th, prologue webisodes launch on scifi.com on December 12th, and the latter will contain hot man-on-man action. Finally! Seriously, dropped ball on the potential Michelle Forbes/Tricia Helfer and Lucy Lawless/Tricia Helfer same sex shenanigans we could potentially have already seen, BSG writers.

* My pal Josiah Leighton on Mark Rothko, C.F., the sublime, and the Yale University art department.

* Big mistake, Jean-Claude Van Damme. BIG mistake.

* Speaking of big mistakes, Heroes creator Tim Kring apologizes for his, and no, I don’t mean “creating Heroes.” (Via Matheson again.)

* Tor.com’s Kate Nepveu is going to be blogging a re-read of The Lord of the Rings. I tried that once and may again someday.

* Finally, I’m impatiently waiting for that Spike Jonze adaptation to finally arise arrive…

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