* Bruce Baugh serves up a one-two punch of superhero blogging, reviewing Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel’s House of M and last year’s Iron Man and Incredible Hulk films. It’s interesting to read such reviews from a guy who’s plugged into the genre and its fandom and yet is coming at the specific material in question from a remove of months or years, given how much superhero commentary is aimed at the here and now.

* Tom Spurgeon reviews The Walking Dead Compendium Vol. 1. I really just love reading Tom on The Walking Dead. I don’t think very many writers who take the book seriously have ever approached it outside the usual zombie-movie framework, myself included, while I don’t think very many of the great writers-on-comics take the book seriously to begin with, making Tom’s reviews a double treat.

* The movie version of Clive Barker’s Book of Blood may get a theatrical release of some kind after all.

* Here’s a synopsis of Gamer, the upcoming 21st-century Running Man-style action flick starring Gerard Butler and directed by Crank impresarios Neveldine & Taylor. Yes please!

* I really need to watch Bram Stoker’s Dracula again.

* Torture Link of the Day: Former Vice President Dick Cheney publicly touted bogus links between Iraq and al-Qaeda “revealed” by detainees whose torture he appears to have authorized specifically to produce such linkage.

* Have you ever heard a more awful sentence than “Daddy ate my eyes”? (Hat tip: Kennyb.)

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