Death becomes him: Variety.com (same deal) also reports that production-management company Circle of Confusion and video-game developer Backbone Entertainment are working on film and comic book versions of the Death Junior video game.

The comic, about the teen-age son of the Grim Reaper, will be illustrated by Courtney Crumrin creator Ted Naifeh. In an April 22 entry on his Live Journal, Naifeh says the three-issue, full-color series will be written by screenwriter Gary Whitta, and published through Image Comics.