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Saturday Runaround – The Forgotten Grant Morrison

Published Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:11:20 -0600

Last updated Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:17:46 -0600

ConWatch: The Amazing Arizona Comic Con with an all star cast is kicking off now. Keep a visual eye on it here…

LarsenWatch: The cover to Supreme 63 by Erik Larsen, drawn from a script by Alan Moore.

ProphetWatch: Brandon Graham of King City and the new Prophet, blogs for Warren Ellis.

I feel like one of the big fights for anyone making a living off of art is the fight to be able to make the coolest work you can make.

I feel like comic books should be the front lines in this fight.

GoblinKingWatch: Entertainment Weekly looks at the Dark Labyrinth prequel comic from Archaia, and how iut will reveal the identity of the Goblin King – with the look of a younger David Bowie.

Over the course of the next 12 months, Archaia editor-in-chief Stephen Christy will have his hands full overseeing a long-rumored graphic novel based on Jim Henson's classic fantasy film Labyrinth. "We can say it's a prequel," he says with understandable excitement. "It's the story of how Jareth is brought into the Labyrinth for the first time. So, it doesn't deal with Sarah, it doesn't deal with Toby or anything like that."

KatrinaWatch: An American Apocalypse, a zombie graphic novel in the aftermath of Katrina written by an ex-state senatorenator? All these things are true.

"The comic has a little different angle on zombies. These are what have been dubbed "hoodoo zombies," not to be confused with "voodoo zombies." Normally, in all of the zombie fiction, the zombies are part of the background, part of the environment," Hagedorn said. "This takes a different angle, in the fact that the zombies are a part of the story itself."

LetterWatch: From Grant Morrison and Paul Grist, creators of St Swithin's Day, comes this one, forgotten page from a Royal Mail project called Letterbox courtesy of Deep Space Transmissions. Juliet4Romeo.

This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.

They say I am a work in progress. The fools.
Richard Alf, 59, one of Comic-Con's founders | UTSanDiego.com

But if Dorf was the main man, Richard Alf was the indispensable teen. The 17-year-old senior at Kearny High School possessed two things Dorf did not: a car and cash.

Concept Art of The Avengers' Quinjet | Superhero Hype