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Now that the second season of THE WALKING DEAD is a smash hit , just in case you missed 'em here are six AMC=produced webisodes showing how various zombies got to be cut in half and so on. WARNING: high squeam factor.

BY JEN VAUGHN - This Friday, 'Marvel' will face the ghost of Jack Kirby when professor and attorney Oliver Goodenough squares off against creator rights advocate and cartoonist Steve Bissette.

Bluewater and their comics bios get the most press of any comics, but not many sales that show up on Diamond's charts. However, all the press has enabled a team-up with Simon and Schuster for Killing GERONIMO: THE HUNT FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN, a comics-styled take on how the Al Qaeda leader was hunted down by US troops. A previous comics version was published by IDW, CODEWORD GERONIMO. Bluewater's version will be written by Jerome Maida and Darren G. Davis with art by James Boulton.

It's going to take a while to get the images and sounds — and smells — of New York Comic Con out of our head, and images such as the above — a bevy of gender-swapped Doctor Whos composed of cosplay superstars — will show you why. There were SO many costumed people at the the show this year. The ratio of costumes to lookieloos was incredibly high. So yeah, if it was spectacle you wanted, you got it, including the topless woman with the fake mustache who was hanging outside the Javits on Sunday. "Yeah, they were talking about her all the way back to Macy's," a photographer told me. Since Macy's is five blocks crosstown from the Javits, this is the equivalent of light speed communication in New York terms.

This is a little premature, but we might be looking at Sesame Street comics in the not-too-distant future.  APE Entertainment, which does have some...

Special Ops Beat Correspondent Torsten has already been on the floor for NYCC set-up and filed the following report:

GeekChicDaily, the daily nerd news email, is launching an edition for New York, and also teaming with the Tokyopop brand for a special edition spotlighting Japanese culture trends and news. The New York edition will cover the Big Apple's lively offerings in geek culture, following localized versions for LA and a national edition. GeekChicDaily also added Microsoft's Mich Mathews to its board of directors.

In a better world, I would not have learned of Joe Simon's 98th birthday today via Facebook at 8 PM.

This iFanboy interview with a comics pirate who recently quit indicated that even among the scanning community, the good old days were awesome. Now, not so much.

This weekend's GeekGirl Con in Seattle sounds like it was a big success; both Saturday and Sunday sold out, and while the above news report doesn't make it look like it was sardine-land, maybe selling out before you get to that point is not a bad idea. Gail Simone has a lengthy write-up that deserves to be read in full; the idea of a female-run and female-centric convention seems to be fairly emblematic of the time and place we find ourselves in, and it sounds like the programming, in particular, was noteworthy:

Via The Horror of it All Blog, comes this Atlas story drawn by Everett Raymond Kinstler from the September 1953 issue of MYSTERY TALES #15. Crime does not pay!

The "Red Circle" line of superheroes—The Fly, the Shield and so on—has been bouncing around the industry for a while now -- first at Archie, then recently licensed to DC where they basically kicked back on the veranda with an iced tea. They're one of those little bits of IP that isn't always out in front but just seems too valuable to let go of entirely. Now Archie Comics is continuing its forward looking ways by bringing back their superheroes as a series of digital comics.