July 21, 2007. That’s the date. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, the last Harry Potter novel, will be released on July 21, 2007.

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I’m a fan of the series. The books are amazing and the movies are a load of fun. I’m excited to see how the books end, but I’m also a little down about the end of the stories in the marvelous world of Harry Potter and pals. The perfect solution for me would be a comic book series set in the Potter universe.

One thing that those of us with an appreciation for graphic literature regularly contemplate is how to get more people to enjoy the comic book medium. The first thing to do is to get more people into the shops. A Harry Potter comic book would do that.

J.K. Rowling has developed such a rich, wonderful world that there are no shortages of story opportunities. I’d love to read stories taking place in different times and different schools. There can be stories all around the wizarding world.

(I’m trying to resist the opportunity to make a cheap joke about a story line called “Welcome Back, Potter” where Harry returns to Hogwarts as a teacher and head of Gryffindor House, which has become overrun with delinquents calling themselves the sweathogwarts.)

Now that Stephen King has sort of entered comics with “Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Reborn” being published by Marvel, I thought it just might be possible that the world of Harry Potter might come to comics. So, I decided to check with my literary world inside sources to bring you, faithful reader, the inside scoop. Unfortunately I don’t have any inside sources in the literary world so I’ve got nothing. But when it is announced that the wizarding world will live on in comics you can rest assured that I’ll probably get around to writing something about it. Eventually.