* Comics news of the week: Josh Simmons’s Cockbone is now online. This was my #3 comic of the year, if you recall. For context, click here. I really want to warn you that this comic is very, very disturbing, so please use your discretion.
* Here’s a pair of photo galleries from the Highwater art exhibit that opened last Friday: Emily Arkin’s gallery on Facebook and Greg Cook’s gallery at the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research. Lined up below are all the comics Highwater ever published. (Via Tom Spurgeon and Peggy Burns.)
* Superman movie update: Zack Snyder directing, David S. Goyer writing, Christopher Nolan producing. Okay, sure.
* Chris Arrant continues his gangbusters guest stint at Robot 6 with an interview with the scary-talented Rafael Grampa. How often do you hear sentences like “Today I’m just a comic book creator, and I think it is an amazing upgrade in my career”?
* Renee French’s H-Day is coming!
* Yesterday’s installment of Brian Chippendale’s Puke Force hit pretty close to home.
* Look, it’s a glimpse of what Zak Smith/Sabbath’s upcoming art show will look like.
* Pascal Girard is doing a graphic novel called Bigfoot. I thought Girard’s debut Nicolas had some real power, so I’m curious to see what he’ll do with one of my beloved cryptozoological creatures.
* Peggy Burns is right–those are some great endpapers by Vanessa Davis. Click the link for more.
* Bloody Disgusting has posted a preview gallery for Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s Ron Moore/Eric Heisserer-scripted prequel to The Thing. The movie’s about the ill-fated Norwegian expedition that MacReady and company stumbled across in John Carpenter’s original/remake; that’s noted non-Norwegian Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on the left, with equally non-Norwegian lead Joel Edgerton. (Via Jason Adams.)
* Speaking of whom, I’m filing this away for later: Jason Adams reviews Let Me In, the Let the Right One In remake from the Cloverfield guy.
* Quote of the day: “Suck it, Knowyourmeme.com. If it’s good enough for Austria, it should be good enough for you.” Rob Bricken is what they call the best of the best.
* A first-person horror mockumentary about trolls roaming around in Norway? Sure, why not. (Via Giant Monsters Attack.)