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That kid would have been deadly at Stalingrad.

There's no standard format, though you can see how other people do it here:
http://www.comicbookscriptarchive.com/archive/?page_id=3

Believe it or not I actually kept rambling on for a good 20 minutes after he stopped recording there.

We recently established on Twitter that PJ is the best PJ that is not fictional (Maybe) or PJ Harvey (Harvey).

Argh! The hideous composite creature of pale necrotic flesh! The slack jawed, drooling mouths! The unseeing gaze of dead eyes! Worst of all the unsightly bulge of stomach suggesting the ingestion of unclean meats!

I think Steve Yeowell's picture of a zombie above that photo is pretty good though.

Kevin O'Neill is not your bitch.

Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/lovecraft_fear_of_the_unknown/

90 minute documentary on HP Lovecraft featuring Neil Gaiman, Guillermo Del Toro, John Carpenter and  Stuart Gordon.

Oh, and if you are not already following it the HP Lovecraft Literary podcast just started up again with The Dunwich Horror (and guets star RObert M. Price, whose name will be familiar if you've read any of the Lovecraftian short story collections he;s edited):

http://hppodcraft.com/

They're going through all of Lovecrafts stories in order, so it's well worth checking out their archives.

It'd be really neat to see Chris doing something in the Prog or Meg sometime.

Snowcrash is good, but a very different thing. TBH I actually prefer The Diamond Age as far as Neal Stephenson post-cyberpunk goes.

There's a series of posts on him here:
http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2009/04/george-alec-effinger.html
http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2009/05/george-alec-effinger-part-two_12.html
http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2009/06/george-alec-effinger-part-three.html

The story of his final years is pretty damn depressing - he died broke, basically, after a lot of illness.

http://www.sfwa.org/archive/news/effinger.htm

I'd highly recommend When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger as a great Cyberpunk book from the same vintage as Neuromancer. It's decidedly less high-tech, being set in a crime riddled walled city in a future Islamic state, and the big cyberpunk element is brain implants allowing people to adopt artificial personalities, which somehow all makes it seem much more up to date than it's peers. It's also bloody great.

Tasty.

Link: http://blastr.com/2010/12/stargate-universe-not-bei.php

Great interview.

Pat Mills should never ever write superman though.

FWIW I don't think I've ever seen them look the same way twice, so I wouldn't sweat it too much.