Updated: Assorted comic news...

Here's a rundown of some of the recent Lovecraftian comic releases and announcements...

Released on July 1st, the second volume of the Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft series, Dagon and Other Tales, is out now in trade paperback from Transfuzion...

The TP contains adaptations of Dagon, The Statement of Randolph Carter, Arthur Jermyn, The Music of Erich Zann and The Picture in the House. Writer Steve Jones also provides background info on HPL...

Dagon and Other Tales is 160 pages and is illustrated by Aldin Baroza, Sergio Cariello, Rob Davis, Chris Jones and Wayne Reid. Retail is $18.99...

Locke and Key: Head Games #6 was released July 1st through IDW. Written by Joe Hill, with art/cover by Gabriel Rodriguez, the comic retails for $3.99...

About the comic: Ellie Whedon is many things: loyal mother, tough coach, embittered daughter, lost soul, Dodge's prisoner and unwilling accomplice. But above all she's a threat to Dodge's safety, the one person who knows the truth about him, and it's time for him to do something about it. Step into Ellie Whedon's tormented memories, and find out how Dodge wound up in that well, in the shattering final issue of the Head Games arc!


Update: Released on July 8th by WildStorm Productions, North 40 was written by Aaron Williams with artwork and cover by Fiona Staples and retails $2.99...

About the comic: Somewhere in Midwestern America was a place called Conover County. When the old book was opened, and the runes therein used in haste and ignorance, a place of farms, simple folk, and small-town dreams became a den of monsters and nightmare. NORTH 40 is the story of those who survived and came to confront an even greater evil on the horizon – one that wouldn't just consume their flesh, but their souls as well. Heroes arise with power to bring against the dark: Wyatt, an unwilling protector of his former tormentors; Amanda, an apprentice to forgotten arts; and Sheriff Morgan, whose bonds with Conover County go back farther than even he can remember. See where it started, and watch where it's all going in NORTH 40 #1...

Coming in August from Dynamite Entertainment, Army of Darkness: Ash Saves Obama, follows Ashley J. William to a comic book convention, a convention featuring a special appearance by Barak Obama, the president of the United States! Also making an appearance at the convention is the dread necronomicon, and it's turning ordinary humans into the demon possessed undead, and it's up to Ash to set things right...


Last but definitely not least, Jason Thompson has announced via a recent Lovecraft Lives article/interview that he will self-publish a graphic novel collecting all 5 issues of his out-of-print classic, H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath! Scheduled for the end of 2009, the 160 page graphic novel will also contain adaptations of The White Ship, Celephais and The Strange High House in the Mist (which is currently being serialized at mockman.com). Retail is TBD, but pre-orders will be available soon...

Watch mockman.com for details...

(Thanks to savagecritic.com, www.bloody-disgusting.com, lovecraftismissing.com and www.dccomics.com/wildstorm/)