* A pair of heavy-hitters in the Strange Tales Spotlight today, in honor of the third and final issue’s release: Paul Hornschemeier and Jeffrey Brown.

* Josh Simmons has changed my mind: Now I want someone to pay him six figures to adapt Stephen King’s It. (Sorry, Al–you snooze, you lose!)

* Wow, this Steven Grant essay about how we’ve entered the Disco Age of comics (meant pejoratively) is just super-duper wrong about both disco then and comics now. And frustratingly, he tosses in a bit about how people who weren’t around in the late ’70s don’t understand disco, so now I can’t explain why it’s wrong because I wasn’t around then and therefore don’t understand. Curses, foiled again!

* Tom Spurgeon really sinks his teeth into Darwyn Cooke’s Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter. It is so good to have Tom reviewing again!

* I’m a few days late on this, but Matt Zoller Seitz’s video essay “Unreal Estate,” a compilation of establishing shots of various buildings where bad things end up happening in horror movies and other films, is his best video essay yet. I even did pretty good at ID’ing the films. Barton Fink was a very welcome inclusion.

* Speaking of both Seitz and scares, he’s a contributor to IFC’s fine list of the 25 Scariest Moments in Non-Horror Movies. Chances are that if it just sprung into your mind, it’s on the list. Seitz’s highest-ranking write-up happens to be the only act of violence in a film that made me cry.

* Jim Woodring updates us on his next two (!) Frank projects.

* The Weinsteins are really, seriously, they-mean-it gonna remake Hellraiser. They don’t know with whom, other than executive producer Clive Barker, but they’re gonna do it by god.

* Finally, rest in peace, San Diego Comic-Con founder Shel Dorf.

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