The documentary is produced by Shadowsnake Films, and can be purchased in a much cleaner looking DVD edition with 5.1 surround sound here. We're not saying it'll help you understand how Moore's brain works, but it's definitely fascinating and well worth watching.

Free Online Alan Moore Documentary [Comic Mix]

He crushed the dreams of the Island Def Jam Music Group's marketing department by saying, "Uh, no. I just listened to it while I wrote the thing." Still, maybe the songs worked their way into his subconscious. Here's a list of top five things Fall Out Boy may have given to Cloverfield, and as you'd expect it's chock full of emo spoilers.

• "The Take Over, The Breaks Over":

  Baby, seasons change but people don't. And I'll always be waiting in the back room. I'm boring but overcompensate with Headlines and flash, flash, flash photography.

  Clearly this is all about the monster, who has apparently been around for years, waiting underwater in a deep slumber. When he arises, it's all flash, flash, flash... and shakycam photography.
• "Hum Hallelujah":

  We mix up your guts Your insides x-rayed And one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster

  J.J. Abrams and crew were nostalgic for a disaster when this thing was born from Godzilla toys. Plus, the monster clearly does some gut-mixing, and Marlena really could have done with an x-ray.
• "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs"

  Thanks for the memories Even though they weren't so great He tastes like you only sweeter

  Hey, even a monster can wax poetic about the folks he's eating. Plus the only real memories he's going to have from this whole ordeal are a rude awakening, lots of people screaming, and bombs bursting on his back. Not so great.
• "The Carpal Tunnel Of Love":

  Stomp out this disaster town You'll put your eyes to the sun and say, "I know you're only blinding to keep back What the clouds are hiding."

  Come on, anyone knows this is clearly a reference to the Tagruato Corporation's lost satellite that falls into the ocean near Coney Island in the film's final scene. Duh.
• "Bang The Doldrums":

  Best friends Ex-friends till the end Better off as lovers And not other way around Racing through the city

  OMG! It's like Rob and Lilly's anthem. So touching, so emotional, so vapid. Clearly this is the kind of song Abercrombie & Fitch models want to be hearing on their iPods while giant monsters chase them through urban catacombs.
• "I've Got All This Ringing In My Ears and None On My Fingers"

  And I'm so sorry But not really Tell the boys where to find my body New York eyes

  The monster laments about the destruction he's caused, although not really. Don't be fooled by those crocodile tears. He really just want you to point him towards the next city he can smash up, which according to the song seems to be Chicago. So, watch out Windy City. The music has spoken.

There's a lot more to see — just click on an image to get to the full gallery.

While the gallery was packed tighter than Emma Frost's pants, next door at Golden Apple artists were signing pieces and doing original sketches for fans, with all proceeds going to The Hero Initiative, a non-profit organization that helps comic book artists and writers in hard times. Stan Lee came in, flashed his grin around the gallery, flitted over to the comic book shop to sign some items for the charity, and then vanished into the night.

We spoke briefly to artist Sarah Coleman who painted a huge Scarlet Witch piece for the show. Admittedly not a "comic book person" to begin with, Coleman struck out on her own and did a lot of research on Marvel characters before settling on Wanda Maximoff and her magical powers. Although she was quick to point out to us that Wanda's powers "were initially math-based, giving her the ability to affect probability." Rewrites over the past few years have changed her ability from "hex magic" to "chaos magic," and she's now one of the most powerful mutants in the Marvel universe.

So, you do learn something new every day, true believer. We feel like we should have known this and retreated into the night ourselves, but not before shouting "Excelsior!" at several random passers by.

• 
  
• Tiger Man from Buck Rogers: Princess Ardala may have been bitchy and vampy, but she didn't have a lot of muscle. So, she had this sword-wielding, shield-bearing muscly bald dude do her bidding for her. Buck couldn't hit a girl (although Wilma sure could), so he frequently went toe to toe with this guy.
• 
  
• Omega Man from... Omega Man: This Charlton Heston starrer was the second adaptation of the I Am Legend novel, leaving him as the last person on Earth. No idea why they didn't just call this thing I Am Legend, but maybe Omega sounded a lot more sci fi high tech to good old chuck.
• 
  
• Hawk from Buck Rogers: Okay, I've been referring to this guy as Hawk Man for years now. Turns out I was wrong, and he's just called Hawk. Which still seems a bit too simple. Doesn't he look more like an Owl?
• 
  
• Mega Man from the countless Mega Man video games: This little guy might be tiny in size, but his heroic actions were "mega," and he's become one of the most recognizable characters in the video game universe. After all, you fight Dr. Wily and his robot minions all day, and you you're going to end up with some recognition.
• 
  
• David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth: Bowie became "the man" in this 1976 film who came to Earth looking for water. Although he may have been Thomas Jerome Newton, he'll always be "The Man" to us.
• 
  
• Demolition Man: Sylvester Stallone plays a retardo cop from the past who destroys everything in his path in order to get the job done. The proof? Right here:
  T.V. Reporter: [to John Spartan] "How can you justify destroying a $7 million dollar mini mall to rescue a girl whose ransom was only $25,000 dollars?"
  Little Girl: "FUCK YOU, LADY!"
  John Spartan: "Ha! Good answer"
• 
  
• The Invisible Man: Claude Rains sucks down a secret formula that turns both him, and his name, invisible. He's forever known by his invisible moniker afterwards, and the name Claude Rains just doesn't have that spark anymore. Sadly, this also gave birth to Kevin Bacon in Hollow Man. Egads.
• 
  
• Ultraman: This Japanese supercop was part of the Science Patrol, and activated when the normal Hayata uses the Beta Capsule, and becomes the giant, ass-kicking monster fighting Ultraman. I guess they wanted to be sure you still knew he was a man.
• 
  
• The entire slew of comic book "mans": For decades there have been a slew of "man" (and "woman) characters spewing forth from the pages of comic books. They gave us Superman, Batman, Ant-Man, Wonder Man, Giant Man, Spider-Man, and pretty much everything-you-can-think-of man.

Ellison wrote the classic Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" along with many other classic works of speculative fiction. He was also an early booster of Doctor Who in the United States, and wrote a classic introduction to the 1970s Who novels when they came stateside.

Dreams with Sharp Teeth screened in May of last year in Los Angeles, although apparently that print was a "work in progress" and they'll be showing the full version in Austin at SXSW. We'll be there — will you?

Dreams With Sharp Teeth, a documentary about Harlan Ellison [Quiet Earth]

Poe penned the dark future tale Mellonta Tauta which is set in the year 2848 as a series of letters written during a balloon voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. These letters satirically comment on the what has happened to the United States during the past thousand years. He'd also written, fourteen years earlier, a story about a man taking a balloon journey to the moon. Seems like Poe really liked hot air for some reason.

Author Thomas Disch posits in his book The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of who claims that Mellonta Tauta firmly roots Edgar Allan Poe as the originator of modern science fiction, since Poe loved exploring different realities, many of them dark and brooding. He re-explored futures similar to that one in Mellonta Tauta in both The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Sceherazade and A Descent into the Maelstrom.

Sylvester Stallone directing a biopic about Edgar Allan Poe? Welcome to your different reality. Hunky Mortensen, star of Lord of the Rings trilogy and the recent Eastern Promises, is reportedly considering taking the role as long as some changes are made to the script. First up will be cutting the scene of Poe toting an M-60 into battle. Quoth the Rambo: "Nevermore."

Mortensen Up For Poe Biopic [Dark Horizons]
An Introduction To Edgar Allan Poe's Hans Pfaal [Infinity Plus]

Apparently he's been fairly busy, having served as a writer and performer on Sabrina, The Teeange Witch and the brilliant but canceled Invader Zim on Nickelodeon. But fear not, because he'll be rejoining MST3K cast members Joel Hogsdon, Trace "Crow " Beaulieu, J. Elvis "Tom Servo" Weinstein, and Mary Jo Pehl for "Cinematic Titanic," which sounds like a lot like MST3K Version 2.0, minus the robots and the mads.