Jog reviews Josh Simmons’s very dark graphic novel House. I didn’t see this one coming at all; it’s kind of like Teratoid Heights with people instead of weird little critters that look like teeth.
Jon Hastings compares Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes to Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects, focusing on the divergent ways the two films portray “normal” people. Money quote:
…despite the horrible things [the killers] do, they’re obviously the movie’s heroes: we’re meant to root for them to escape the forces of law and order, who are presented as bigger monsters than the outlaws. They’re also presented as hypocrites, which, by the movie’s values is a lot worse than being a monster.
Kristin Thompson tracks the rise of fantasy and the fall of sci-fi in the cinema. Coincidence? She thinks not.
Finally, some guy named Sean T. Collins reviews the latest issues of Incredible Hulk, 52, Hellboy: Darkness Calls, Astonishing X-Men, Detective Comics, Dominion, The Exterminators, Green Lantern, Midnighter, and Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil in the latest Thursday Morning Quarterback at Wizard.