* Today on Robot 666: Matt Maxwell on John Coulthart’s art for Call of Cthulhu;

* a preview of David B.’s The Littlest Pirate King;

* a trailer for the pre-Code horror and crime comics anthology The Horror! The Horror! (about which more, pro and con, in this Comics Comics post and very lively comment thread);

* and my chum Justin Aclin and his brother Jesse present an illustrated prose story of his atheist super-team S.H.O.O.T. First, “The House That Ate Halloween.”

* Today on Robot 6, a couple of “maybe you missed it”s: Tim Callahan takes a look at Powr Mastrs 3 and If ‘n Oof;

* and Frank Santoro on the Watchmen grid.

* Lookit, Fantagraphics previews the Strange Tales II contributions of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez! LOVE AND ROCKTOBER marches on! And hey, Jon Vermilyea too! I’m happy to be involved with this series, and some of the folks who made it in were my suggestions, I’m proud to say.

* Wow, that’s a metric ton of behind-the-scenes sketches and character designs and script pages and rejected covers and whatnot from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim saga.

* I hear nothing but good things about Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee’s Thor the Mighty Avenger.

* Curt Pucell on Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s The Walking Dead Vols. 9-12. It’s interesting to see how this stuff reads for someone who first read a collection that contained issues #1-58 between one set of covers.

* Now this is a first, for writers of my acquaintance: Sean Belcher liked the Friday the 13th remake. I remember being really impressed by how quickly and unstoppably Jason was moving in that first trailer, and then never hearing anything good about the movie ever again.

* This is just really fine writing: Tom Ewing on Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U.” The way he unpacks her vocal delivery? That’s what music criticism should be all the time, basically.

* Here’s a nice thoughtful piece by Amypoodle of the Mindless Ones on Batman the Dark Knight vs. Batman the Caped Crusader. Even as a kid I thought that one of the greatest things about Batman was that he fit so convincingly in all sorts of differently flavored stories–straight-up superheroes, science fiction, horror, gritty crime/noir stuff, mysteries, whatever. Keep in mind, The Dark Knight Returns totally featured flying talking robot dolls.

* Bryan Ferry does “Song to the Siren” as only he can. (Via Tom Ewing.)

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