Neil Young Turning Greendale Into A Graphic Novel

Neil Young's 2003 Greendale project was a narrative adventure (cops getting shot on duty, young women becoming environmental warriors, etc.) that twisted and turned around the life stories of that namesake town.

Young ended up turning the sprawling story into an album, a heavily theatrical live show complete with actors and a "Hair/Let The Sun Shine" dance-off climax, a pseudo-movie telling the same story and an art book designed by Young and James Mazzeo.

Apparently the veteran Canadian singer/songwriter forgot something in his multimedia assault: a comic book. Greendale will now be turned into a graphic novel by writer Joshua Dysart. He's the same fellow responsible for the Avril Lavigne graphic novel, Make Five Wishes.

The novel is apparently at least a year away from completion and will feature a new Greendale storyline that focuses on the turmoil in the town the day before the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003. It's supposed to revolve heavily around Sun Green, the aforementioned enviro-warrior who was charged for pot possession and chained herself to the statue of an eagle in the lobby of a fictional company called Powerco while megaphoning slogans like "there's corruption on the highest floor" and "they're all dirty."

The novel will come out through DC Comics subsidiary Vertigo, which published Stardust, a graphic novel-turned-Hollywood movie featuring Claire Danes.