* Kevin Huizenga is calling it quits with his series Or Else, which is a bummer (even if I haven’t liked recent issues as much as I’ve liked older issues). It’s not clear if the decision is a personal/artistic one or a business/logistical one, but fortunately he says he’ll continue to put out comics (though he doesn’t reveal the details as to where exactly material intended for OE will wind up, if anyplace).
* This week’s House Next Door Battlestar Galactica review by Todd VanDerWerff really gets at everything I liked so much about the episode, from Ron Moore’s occasionally almost abstract shot choices to the emphasis on societal and psychological breakdown rather than plot movement.
* Meet Santiago Meza “The Stewmaker” Lopez, a Mexican man arrested for dissolving the bodies of 300 victims of a Tijuana druglord in acid.
* Fantagraphics’ Mike Baehr lists some of his favorite comics of 2008.
* Curt Purcell tips his hat to fellow horrorbloggers John Cozzoli and CRwM for their contributions to the horror blogosphere.
* Jog examines Let the Right One In and Synecdoche, New York.
* David Allison plunges deep into Gilbert Hernandez’s hardcore-porn Love & Rockets spinoff Birdland.
* Bill Sherman gives some thought to the morality of The Dark Knight.
* Wow, look how pretty old-school Adam Hughes art used to be!
* Here’s a lovely photo gallery of David Bowie from 1973 to 1976, during the tail end of which he was the best-looking man I’ve ever seen. (Via Sean B.)
