The Cross Hatch Dispatch 7.17.09

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[Above, a typical day at Roger Langridge's Muppet Show. Below, it's time to meet the Dispatch.]

  • Romantic comedies and zombies were sooo last month. Expand your alternate universe of Jane Austen classics with Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. There’s also a funny trailer.
  • IDW is partnering with Archie Comics to reprint some of the most iconic stories from Riverdale High and re-releasing them in shiny hardcover form.T
  • he Muppet Show’s Roger Langridge has decided last minute to attend Comic Con. He’s set to do a panel on July 26th.
  • Popular sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has gone sequential. The first issue has just been released on July 15th courtesy of BOOM comics.
  • Timothy Caltahan from Comic Book Resource has stumbled across a Webcomic that may not blow your mind, but will surprise.
  • Universal Studios intends on joining the comic to movie bandwagon by opening writing assignments for the alcoholic Texas spaceman series, Fear Agent.
  • In further Archie news you—yes you—can win a chance to be featured in an Archie Comic. Names for the drawing will be taken during the “Archie Comics: Archie Marries Veronica Panel” on July 23rd between 11:30-12:30.
  • There’s no doubt that zombies are in this season. Vertigo’s blog has announced the release of I, Zombie—a new on-going series with writer Chris Roberson and artist Mike Allred—about a zombie detective.

–Natalie Shoemaker