* My guest in the Strange Tales Spotlight today is Jim Rugg.

* For those of you keeping score at home, I think I’ll be ponying up three more SPX posts: A Carnival of SPX link post (hurry the fuck up Jog, I’m on a deadline here), a “here’s what I got” post (which, honestly, are the most important posts, because they’re about comics!), and probably, because I’m a glutton for punishment, a transcription of the Critics’ Roundtable panel.

* This seems like news a lot of you can use: Sammy Harkham is facilitating the sale of original art from Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror. Make him an offer, Simpnerds!

* “Is this a musical table?”: They can nominate him for all the Oscars in the world, but to me, Richard Jenkins will always be Agent Paul Harmon, Bureau of Tobacco, Tobacco, and Tobacco, from David O. Russell’s Flirting with Disaster–one of my all-time favorite comedies, and one of my all-time favorite comedic performances. Lebowski-level shit, dude. Anyway he’s going to be in Cloverfield director Matt Reeves’s egregiously titled remake of Let the Right One In, Let Me In. So I’m interested.

* Yeah, you’re gonna wanna peruse Curt Purcell’s gorgeously sleazy Flickr gallery of vintage paperback covers. Trash! Go pick it up!

* Holy shit, Nine Inch Nails’ Broken movie is on YouTube? Um, how is that possible? Trent Reznor was torture porning when torture porning wasn’t cool.

* Paul Pope adapts Dune, Wednesday Comics-style. Lovern Kindzierski’s colors kill.

* You should check Renee French’s blog every day, because every day she posts things like this:

* My friends at The Cool Kids Table celebrate their one-year blogiversary once again with a cover gallery of comics they loved over the past 365 days.

* Ceri B. kicks off a month of daily horrorblogging with a post on a killer paragraph from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death.”

* Real-Life Horror: Meet Fouad al-Rabiah, the innocent man we knowingly tortured for the express purpose of extracting false confessions. (Via Andrew Sullivan.)

* Do I ever just stop and say what an amazing, consistent blogger Aeron Alfrey of Monster Brains is? Eye-popping images day after day after day. Today’s gallery is the latest in a series of posts on monstrous video game art. God how I loved Karnov and Rygar! You really, really need to stick Monster Brains in your RSS reader.

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