* Jeet Heer offers some thoughts on Daniel Clowes’s Wilson. I particularly like the idea that Wilson represents a synthesis between Clowes’s earlier, shorter, more outwardly funny rant-comics about sports and art school and things like that and his subsequent turn to longer narratives.
* Rob Liefeld says he’s writing a screenplay about Image Comics in the ’90s. Who am I to say he isn’t? Too bad he didn’t finish it before Sorkin wrote his Facebook thing.
* Evil Christopher Hitchens from Speed Racer is now in Game of Thrones. Looking forward to it!
* Kiel Phegley writes more than anyone needed to about the ’90s West Coast Avengers’ x-treme revamp Force Works…and yet it turns out to be exactly the amount of writing about Force Works you needed. It’s also a backdoor analysis of superhero story structures circa today, so give it a shot.
* Somehow I missed the trailer for Marilyn Manson’s long-mooted directorial debut Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, so it was with some surprise that I read today that fan backlash against the trailer may have led to the shuttering of the entire project. So I watched the thing and, well, it’s pretty much what you’d expect a Marilyn Manson movie about Lewis Carroll to look like–perhaps with more exposed labia, but still. Did people think it was gonna look like The Grand Illusion?
* Scott Tobias’s New Cult Canon at the Onion A.V. Club covers Demonlover. I know nothing about this film except that my then-therapist recommended it to me because Connie Nielsen takes her top off in it or something. That’s how my therapist rolled.
Tags: A Song of Ice and Fire, fantasy, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin