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Is it just us, or is it unspeakably flimsy speculation on the part of the Italian prosecutor in the Amanda Knox trial to make "specific references in court to rocker Marilyn Manson and the violent, sexually charged Japanese manga comics Sollecito was fond of"? Giuliano Mignini is trying to draw a link between the fact that murdered student Kercher dressed as a vampire for Halloween and one of Raffaele Sollicito's graphic novels has to do with someone killing vampires on Halloween. Whereas Mignini has set himself the task of describing how an apparently crazy-ass threesome slaughtered Kercher without leaving anything besides circumstantial evidence behind, Knox's lawyers argue it was just one attacker. We have the uncomfortable feeling we're learning more about Mignini's psyche than we really wanted to.

"When the world is invaded by robots in 2067 this will still sound ahead of its time" -NME

Suicide Girls is five years old, which makes these young starlets some of the grande dames of alt-porn. You can celebrate with them tonight, when they bring their controversial burlesque show to Neumo's.

Asia Argento has got her father's knack for horror. Sure, there are no limbs being severed as someone falls through broken glass, but the domestic horrors depicted in "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things" are on par with the finest of her father's work. The film tells the story of Jeremiah. Raised by foster parents until the age of 7. Reclaimed by his abusive, alcoholic mother. Raped by her boyfriend. Abandoned by his mother. Claimed by his abusive, Christian grandparents.

The scofflaw gun-fetishists behind local funny book factory Fantagraphics Books pushed the avant-garde comics publishing envelope even further on Sunday, August 14th when they blew up a lawn mower (photo credit Eric Reynolds) in the Sultan river basin during their semi-annual summer shoot-out event, a tradition that goes back more than a decade and has even included the blowing up of cars with dynamite in years past, not to mention the senseless shooting of a perfectly functional fire extinguisher.