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Published Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:48:08 -0500

Last updated Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:48:40 -0500

WonderCon: So what's been going down at Wondercon? Well Image announced they are to collect Steven Seagle and Kelly Jones' The Crusades Vertigo series from 2001 as two hardcovers. Officer Downe, as previewed on Bleeding Cool, gets Image-announced as coming from Joe Casey and Chris Burnham. Richard Starking's Elephantmen has been movie-optioned. Oh and here's the season finale trailer for Clone Wars.

iPadWatch: As Hachette books return to the Kindle, the comnpany has its focus elsewhere.

On Saturday morning Ms. Thomas was busy using her new iPad. "It's gorgeous," she said. "The apps we created for the iPhone work great on the iPad. I'm looking at a James Patterson graphic novel and it's even better than I'd hoped."

ObitWatch: The New York Times eulogise Dick Giordano, citing cause of death as complications of a treatment for leukemia.

IndiaWatch: Architecture as political satire in Lie: A Traditional Tale of Modern India by Gautam Bhatia.

By using subjects to which everyone could relate, the idea was to explore the moral and social dilemmas that dominate Indian life – corruption, dowry, dysfunctional families, gender inequality, caste prejudice, communalism and other areas of conflict. Real and fictitious characters – ministers, movie stars, bureaucrats, underworld dons, migrant workers, child labourers, government teachers, cricket players, business executives and a range of other personalities – moved in and out of the story

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