* Recently on Robot 6: Ming Doyle sure can draw;

* the astonishing cartoons of Abner Dean;

* and Hickman and Bendis bust Guggenheim’s chops, sorta.

* Here’s a fine Tucker Stone piece on Taiyo Matsumoto’s Blue Spring, with really excellently selected art. You should be able to “get” the comic just by looking at this review, let alone reading it.

* Sylvester Stallone says Rambo V isn’t happening, but a bunch of other things indicate otherwise, including a producer who gives a summary of the story in its “Rambo kills his way through Juarez” iteration.

* Kristin Thompson talks about Paul Wegener and Karl Boese’s Der Golem, one of the few German Expressionist horror classics I haven’t seen.

* Kevin Guhl’s list of The Top 10 Cryptozoological Creatures That Have Yet to Be Exploited in Film and Television for Topless Robot does a great job of capturing the mix of plausibility and absurdity, familiarity and terrifying unfamiliarity, that makes cryptids so fascinating to me. 50-foot alligators swimming around the Congo basin, you know?

* Real Life Horror: Glenn Greenwald provides a round-up of the ways American citizens’ rights are being eroded should they be accused of terrorism. The John Walker Lindh example he quotes from Digby is really instructive, I think. It’s very scary and strange that this is happening even as, or even though, the wars in whose name this stuff is being done slip further off the radar and the attempted attacks on us get more and more amateurish. What would happen if things really flared up again?

* I think this Alan Sepinwall interview with Lost honchos Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse (spoilers for this week’s episode abound, so if you haven’t seen it yet, don’t read this) marks the precise moment at which “fan backlash over the final episodes of our series” went from being something the pair anticipated and studied and prepared for via other shows like The Sopranos and Seinfeld and Battlestar Galactica to something they’re currently experiencing and have realized they will continue to experience for the rest of their lives. Even though you’re bound to find some of their answers frustrating, and there are a couple of turns of phrase I’m sure they wish they could take back, I actually think they’re handling themselves much better than the characteristically uncharitable representatives of Lost fandom who show up in the comments are giving them credit for. Of course, I don’t share their complaints about the show right now, either. (Via Todd VanDerWerff.)

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