* Laura Hudson interviews Geoff Johns on Blackest Night for a good long while. Johns waxes philosophical about the Emotional Spectrum, the metaphorical import of the various Lantern Corps, the difference between Marvel and DC–basically a lot more than the usual promo-heavy interviews guys like Johns end up doing.

* Eric Heisserer wrote a multi-site web-fiction horror story called The Dionaea House that scared the shit out of me a few years back. Now I guess he’s a big-shot screenwriter who penned the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street and is rewriting Battlestar Galactica helmer Ronald D. Moore’s screenplay for the prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing. Heisserer talks about his Thing to Bloody Disgusting.

* Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente talk to CBR about their Tolkien-spoofing next arc of ADDTF fave Incredible Hercules.

* I’m several days late and dollars short on this, but it sounds like Robert Rodriguez really is making a movie out of his Grindhouse faux-trailer Machete. Unlike John Carter of Mars and Red Sonja and Barbarella, this one actually has more people in its officially announced cast than Rose McGowan, so I think it might actually happen. And seriously, the cast is ridonkulous: Robert DeNiro, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Jeff Fahey, Don Johnson, Steven Seagal, and Danny Trejo. This is giving Stallone’s Expendables a run for its money.

* Colin: A Zombie’s Tale is an independent horror film from the zombie’s perspective. Sure, I’ll eat it. (Pun not intended, per se, but it’s not like I scrapped it and wrote something else, is it.)

* A hearty congratulations to FourFour’s Rich Juzwiak on his forth blogiversary. It’s been a long, long time since I went in for blogger triumphalism, but I think the emergence of a writer who could speak equally eloquently on America’s Next Top Model, the state of contemporary R&B, adorable cat videos, and Cannibal Holocaust was exceedingly unlikely prior to the emergence of blogs, so thank goodness they gave us Rich Juzwiak.

* Tonight, at Portland’s Grass Hut Gallery, you can see a whole bunch of Tom Neely paintings like this one:

And a whole bunch of Hellen Jo paintings like this one:

And why wouldn’t you want to?

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