* Chaykin said he's working on a six-party sequel to Bite Club with artist David Hahn, but it isn't scheduled yet.

"I've got the outline of the first issue in the computer this weekend, and I'm starting on the script on Monday," he said. "Dave will start drawing in mid-March, and it will probably come out toward the end of the year."

Chaykin prasied Hahn's art, calling it "weird and quirky."

* In 100 Bullets #62, out in June, the deadly-but-beautiful Megan Dietrich runs afoul of Cole Burns and Benito Medici for a love triangle that can only end badly.

* Wayne said The Losers trade paperbacks are "doing partcularly well."

* According to Wayne, if sales merit, there will be a sequel to the Vertigo: First Taste one-shot.

* In Trigger #7, out in June, features the introduction of Leonard, an average guy stuck in a dead-end job -- until he's activated as a deadly Trigger.

* Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky teams with painter Kent Williams for August's original graphic novel The Fountain, based on the film directed by Aronofsky currently in production. Crisscrossing through three time eras, The Fountain follows a passionate young manšs attempts to beat death and prolong the life of the woman he loves.

"The book is completed. The paintings are all done," Wayne said. "It's stunning."

Wayne said there will likely be a preview of The Fountain -- both the film and the graphic novel -- at Comic-Con International in San Diego this summer. The film stars Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz.

* The nine-issue adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere starts in June. Adapted by writer Mike Carey and artist Glenn Fabry, the series follows Richard Mayhew as he enters a strange, subterranean world.

"Mike's scripts for this are brilliant," Vankin said. "Neil loves them; he's read all six that have been written so far.

"If you like Neil Gaiman, you're going to like this," Vankin said. "And a lot of people seem to like Neil Gaiman."

* The Quitter, the graphic novel by Harvey Pekar and Dean Haspiel, will be released in October. In an autobiographical tale, Pekar for the first time tells the surprising story of his troubled adolescence, when he learned that the only way he could win acceptance from his peers was by beating other kids up in street fights.

"He said it many times, that it's the best work he's done," Vankin said of Pekar. "It's a sad story, and it's a funny story.

"It moves better, it has more fluid story-telling, than the previous Harvey Pekar books."

* Look for a Swamp Thing trade paperback and a collection of Mike Carey's first run on Hellblazer later this year.

* City Lights, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, remains in the works but is not on the schedule yet. "It's a major work for both of them," Vankin said.

* Jill Thompson's second manga tale, Dead Boy Detectives, will be released this summer. Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland, the dead British teenagers who run a makeshift detective agency, travel stateside in an original manga mystery guest-starring Death.

* In the five-part Fables story "Return to the Homelands," by writer Bill Willingham, artists Mark Buckingham and Steve Leialoha and cover artist James Jean, Boy Blue must fight his way to the Imperial City to confront The Adversary. Can he possibly defeat The Adversary and rescue his lost love?

The Fables hardcover is being targeted for a 2006 release.

* A new story arc, "Girl on Girl," begins in Y: The Last Man #32. Show above is the cover to #33.