Today sees the first part of a new six-part Lookouts story over at Penny Arcade.

You can check out the original treatment here, though the rest of that particular story didn’t quite do it for me so I’m quite excited about the new one.

Fables Issue #1 available as a free download from DC Comics.

This interview was posted on Boing Boing last week but I’ve only just got around to reading it. Jake Adelstein is an American journalist who for the past twelve years has been a crime reporter for Japan’s largest newspaper.

Reading the introduction to the interview I wonder if describing his exploits as “crazy adventures” gives them a misleadingly whimsical air.

And as I turned my back to leave, he jumped on me. He started hitting me really hard and kicking me. So I ran to the corner of his room and got a golf club, and kept hitting his knee until his knee broke. I was just running around in circles aiming at his knee. Even after his knee broke, he was still crawling at me. I was like, god! Why don’t you just give up?

Tokyo Vice is out in the UK in July (and it probably makes my ‘had a bath with a heavily-irezumi-ed man’ story look pretty shit)

A collection of over 650 Phillip K Dick book covers – some pretty trippy covers for some pretty trippy books…

Some of the more eagle-eyed among you (the geeks) may notice that the bottom left hand Palmer Eldritch cover is actually the cover to Frank Herbert’s Dune (at least it is to the copy I own) that they just nicked and reused.

(via Design Observer)

PS: Yes I was tempted to title this post ‘Dick Covers’

Did you know: No matter how dire the circumstances, Professor Robert Langdon prefers not to look at a piece of art on the internet if the original is in a gallery nearby.

More facts about Dan Brown’s favourite protagonist.

See also:

• Editing Dan Brown
• Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences – Ah, that familiar tang of deionised essence…