An updated photo gallery, a Jeffrey Brown panel report, a Kim Deitch panel report, and a rundown of the best books of the show by a gaggle of Wizard staffers (including yours truly) continue the day job’s MoCCA coverage.

“Unfortunately, that’s part of Florida,” course general manager Rod Parry said. “There’s wildlife in these ponds.”

—“One-eyed gator pulls golfer into pond,” AP, CNN.com

Or something like that? That’s the gist of this article, in which Kill Bill Vols. 1 & 2 executive producer Bennet Walsh says that Volume 3 would focus on the revenge of the characters maimed by the Bride in the first two, while a subsequent Volume 4 would continue the cycle with the daughters of the women involved (presumably the girls of Vernita Green and the Bride herself). Very interesting. (Via Bloody Disgusting.)

Charles Burns (with his free minicomic) and Anders Nilsen.

For more MoCCA pix, plus reports from panels hosted by Alison Bechdel and Nilsen & Gabrielle Bell, check out the day job’s site.

This week’s Horror Roundtable goes meta, asking the participants to name their favorite Horror Roundtable moment. Mine’s got nards.

I mean, don’t they?

It’s that whole beefy, bourbon-drinking uncle vibe.

Find out what I thought of this week’s issues of Captain America, The Flash: Fastest Man Alive, The Incredible Hulk, Ex Machina, Heroes for Hire, Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Justice League of America, and Repo at this week’s Thursday Morning Quarterback at Wizard.

At the 2007 MoCCA Art Festival, the best alternative comics convention going. If you’re in New York City, swing by and say hello to me at the Wizard table. And horror fans, be advised that Bill “Stray Toasters” Sienkiewicz and Charles “Black Hole” Burns will be there too!

Via Jason Adams. Damn you for scooping me on a Dark Is Rising image, Adams. Damn you to Hell!

(I’m actually not so wild about this one, to be honest. Who are those other kids? Am I forgetting something?)

The inaugural installment of the biweekly alternative comics interview column I’ll be doing for WizardUniverse.com, I Can Has Comix?, is up. This week’s guests: Los Bros Hernandez (aka Gilbert and Jaime), creators of Love and Rockets. Enjoy!

Here’s a new pic from Frank Darabont’s upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Mist,” which accompanies an interview with King on his upcoming film and TV projects at USA Today.

Can. Not. WAIT.

(Via Bloody Disgusting.)

This comment at this post about this post led me to this site and this thread where this post brought me to these images:

They’re fan-made alternate covers for the upcoming Twin Peaks complete definitive gold box edition whatever DVD boxed set, the cover of which is, shall we say, aesthetically challenged. And there’s a lot more where those came from.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. November 6th. Rated NC-17. (Via Cinematical.)

According to health and law enforcement officials, there are several warning signs of the onset of Wayne Ray Thomas, including intense anxiety, shortness of breath, sweating, and a sudden loss of power to the victim’s house.

Physical symptoms of a full-scale attack include involuntary constriction of the airway and sharp, stabbing pains in the left arm, right arm, throat, and back. In the advanced stages, afflicted persons suffer external bleeding, loss of motor function, organ failure, and intracranial hemorrhaging.

So far, those stricken by Wayne Ray Thomas have exhibited a 100 percent mortality rate.

—“Florida Man Beats Out Heart Disease as Nation’s No. 1 Killer,” The Onion

Panels like this are why I read Brian Ralph’s first-person zombie-apocalypse indie comic Daybreak, and why you should too. Buy it here.

A somewhat, shall we say, ambivalent relationship with food in general and meat in particular is expressed in this rather wonderful clip for “Sick Sick Sick” by Queens of the Stone Age, one of the best songs the band has yet produced.

Conspicuous consumption indeed.

Simply reading or hearing the words “transcend the genre” is enough to make me turn away in disgust, so goddess bless Jon Hastings: He’s devised a wonderful five-part taxonomy of “transcending the genre”, in an attempt to figure out the what critics who use this phrase to describe horror or other déclassé genres actually mean. It’s tempting to believe that TTG automatically equates to “I don’t like horror movies but I like this horror movie so therefore it is not a horror movie” (Jon’s TTG classification #1)–all the more so because that usually is what it equates to–but Jon elucidates some definitions that are actually useful and non-condescending. For example, a genre film that appeals to a wider audience than genre die-hards can be said, accurately and without pejorative connotations, to transcend the genre. Again, I don’t tend to find that that’s what mainstream critics who break out TTG are getting at, but still, Jon’s post was a tremendous eye-opener for me.

I also want to use this opportunity to point out Dave Intermittent’s shots across the bow of the “‘safe’ critical consensus” about the lo-fi, politically aware horror films of the ’70s. Dave asserts that budgetary concerns are not an inherent strength (or flaw) and that the impact of those movies upon their release was not predominantly (if at all) political in nature. Given recent developments in this area, they’re points worth considering.

A complete, definitive Twin Peaks DVD set called “The Gold Box Edition”–including Season One, Season Two, and the pilot–is supposedly headed for shelves this October 30th. Rumor-riffic details can be found at TVShowsOnDVD.com (still no word on extras).

So excited.

This week’s Horror Roundtable question: Name your favorite horror sequel. It’s a toss-up!

A propos of nothing, I want to point out this post by James Smith responding to my post on the artificiality of Alan Moore’s writing; I’ve had the thing bookmarked for ages. James takes things in a number of directions, from pointing out that comparing Watchmen to a group-written enterprise like The Sopranos is an apples/oranges deal to suggesting that Moore’s imposition of patterns on patternless life is what people do all the livelong day.