* Cold Heat has a blog? And Frank Santoro and BJ are doing something in Mome? Hot cha!
* So, looks like They might have approached the Wachowski Brothers about directing a Superman reboot trilogy. I can’t imagine that Warner Bros. is in a “let’s put a franchise in the hands of the Wachwoskis” mood after Speed Racer and The Matrix Revolutions, so in general I echo Rob Bricken’s call for calm, but for now I’ll play along because there’s a possibility this could end up being really cool. Speed Racer would be a terrific direction for a more science-fiction/fighting with Brainiac, Bizarro, and Darkseid Superman movie to go in visually, while the aerial battle between Neo and Smith at the end of the third Matrix flick was already the best Superman fight scene ever filmed.
* David Cronenberg directing Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington in a Robert Ludlum adaptation? Sure, I’ll eat it.
* The Descent 2 trailer was up but is no longer. Oh well.
* I liked Dash Shaw’s Best Comics of 2008 list.
* Speaking of Dash, he’s finished Body World, which gives me a decent excuse to read it from start to finish.
* Something about this sentence cracked me up: “Like so many bloggers, I was a big fan of Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca’s 2004 series Street Angel.” Like so many bloggers and so few readers, alas. But it was a great comic and the short live-action film version of it looks pretty great.
* Eve Tushnet waxes enthusiastic about the Brian Michael Bendis/Michael Gaydos Alias reunion.
* Bruce Campbell says no to Evil Dead IV. This comes several years after I said no to Evil Dead IV.
* Finally, like everyone else on the comics Internet, I bow before the almighty majesty of Alvin Buenaventura’s star-studded Angouleme Festival flickr set.
Seeing R. Crumb, Chris Ware, and Dan Clowes in the same picture makes my Bowie sketchbook ache. (Can you imagine how Crumb would react if I asked him for a drawing of Ziggy Stardust?)