"Haunted" by Comics

Just in time for Halloween, Sci Fi Wire recently ran a pair of stories that bring together comics and ghosts, with a little Disney magic and the Jeffersons thrown in for good measure.

The first detailed a new TV show coming your way courtesy of NBC, based on the Platinum Studios graphic novel Meet the Haunteds:

The single-camera project will center on an upper-middle-class white family who moves into a restored house in a gentrified neighborhood that's haunted by a black family from the early 1970s, the trade paper reported.

The next is a story on Slave Labor's new Haunted Mansion comic, based on the WDW/Disneyland ride:

The first issue of the black-and-white Haunted Mansion is an anthology written by Roman Dirge and Serena Valentino. It sets the stage for an ongoing backstory of the mansion and its owner with intertwining stories of such Haunted Mansion residents as "The Ghost Host," "Madame Leota" and "The Bride," Vado said. "Basically the stories will deal with three basic elements of the Haunted Mansion story," he said. "It will deal with how the ghosts interact with each other, how they got to be where they are and how the Haunted Mansion got to be what it is. The mansion contains 999 ghosts, so that's 999 stories. We could be at this for a while."

I understand those 999 happy haunts have room for a thousand ...