With the Hughes Brothers directing. Premise seems to have shades of Costner’s The Postman, and the Hughes Bros. have been on my list ever since bastardizing From Hell. And Denzel doesn’t do sci-fi all that well. I remain dubious until I hear more.

Tom Spurgeon profiles a new comic store outside Chicago and talks to one of the co-owners.

Don’t forget that new releases come out Thursday because of the holiday…

Buffy TVS #18. Cover by Georges Jeanty.

Spawn #182

High Rollers #2 (of 4). Written by Gary Phillips.

Life Sucks Collected Edition HC. Co-written by Gabe Soria.

Also notable:

Fringe #1 (of 6). The mini based on JJ Abrams’ new TV series.

Savage Dragon #137. The Obama cover is a variant, don’t forget.

Love & Rockets: New Stories #1. The Hernandez Brothers’ long-running title returns as a series of annual GNs.

Ron King announces that UVC will cease print publication and go strictly online - for the moment.

Here’s a nice piece about the old comic strip Quincy.

Info about the Hancock DVD.

I didn’t even know he was in this movie - and wouldn’t have cared, except for this.

Black Panther #40. Secret Invasion tie-in.

Immortal Iron Fist #18. Pencils by Foreman.

New Warriors #15, New Warriors: Thrashed TP. Written by Grevioux. The former is a Secret Invasion tie-in.

Also notable:

Family Dynamic #1 (of 3). J. Torres and Tim Levins, the duo behind The Copybook Tales, reunite for this new mini about a superhero family.

Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1 (of 2). Grant Morrison writes this FC spin-off which includes a 3D section!

Mighty Avengers #17, New Avengers #44. SI tie-ins.

Echo: Moon Lake TP. The first trade paperback of Terry Moore’s new series.

Vin Diesel talks about Babylon AD here and about future Riddick movies here.

Jonas Moore creator Howard Webster talks about his plans for the character.

Zoe Saldana talks Star Trek.

“There he was, standing in all of his 81-Points-in-one-game glory, wearing his blue and red NBA-approved sweat suit. The dimes fell from my hand onto the counter like copper and tin rain as I gasped out a meager, ‘Kobe!’

“Kobe, his one-man entourage and bodyguard all snickered unsurprised at my reaction as I fumbled around the counter to open the door. As I took out my keys I heard Kobe’s friend say, ‘That’s one way to get them to open up.’

“I opened the door and shook the hands of the three men as they entered the store and said, ‘Welcome to Lee’s Comics, how can I help you?’ I must have been working on some sort of autonomous shock setting as I spoke with Kobe, stunned that he was in San Mateo and in Lee’s Comics asking him, ‘So what kind of stuff are you into?’”

Also: A Kyle Baker audio interview.

“…I don’t know how one might go about writing an historical piece on blues musicians without dealing directly with the issue of race in America at the time. You can give ten intelligent, rational people access to the same one hundred books on a given topic and every one of them will develop a different picture of what that thing is. I took a hard, long look at the lives of blues musicians and the audiences they serviced from the period and this is what I saw. I make no claims to its veracity. It’s fiction.”

Bluesman

Plus: Cairo writer G. Willow Wilson talks about her forthcoming Vixen mini.

He could pick a worse running mate, I suppose.

A featurette that will no doubt appear on the DVD.

I think I may have written about this webcomic before, but this is the first I’ve read about it being developed for television.