Vertigo announced two new projects by writer Joshua Dysart (Swamp Thing, Violent Messiahs): a graphic novel adaptation of Neil Young's activist-minded concept album, Greendale; and Unknown Soldier, a new comics series transposing the Unknown Soldier to war torn Eastern Africa.

 

Greendale, which has also been presented as a movie by Young, features his characters and concepts and full color art by Sean Murphy (Outer Orbit, Off Road).  The plot follows teenager Sun Green through life-changing events set against a backdrop of the U.S. preparing for war in 2003.

 

Alberto Ponticelli (Egon, Sam and Twitch) provides the art for Unknown Soldier, which is set in northern Uganda, where corruption, violence, poverty and AIDS are widespread.  The series follows Moses Lwanga, a pacifist doctor whose experiences paradoxically bring out a latent and uncanny ability to kill.