* IGN’s Dan Philips speaks at length with Grant Morrison about Batman and Robin. And so help me god, Morrison cites Crank: High Voltage as an influence:
I went to see Crank: High Voltage when we were in Los Angeles. I had just watched that, and I thought everything else just looks like slow motion, really. I wanted to get that effect into the comics as well. To me that was just a great action film, and every action film after is going to have to try and move at that speed. I really wanted to get that into Batman and Robin.
The only way a “Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely on Batman using Crank and Twin Peaks as influences” could be purer Collins Crack is if it came with a collaborative soundtrack by David Bowie and Underworld.
* Jason Adams gets about one plot-hole into a review of Terminator Salvation before giving up and washing his hands of the whole mess. I’m sympathetic.
* Turns out it’s hella hard to blow up a planet.
On blowing up a planet: Greg Bear’s The Forge of God is the best fictional description I’ve seen of how to do that, how long it would take, and what it would be like to be on the planet.
Always good to see Wil getting press; he’s always been fun when he gets to expounding on such. (I knew him back in the ’90s, when he was just getting started as a novelist.)
His novels are all worth reading, by the way.