See 2000AD got a mention over on Aint it Cool about the Shaun of the dead story appearing. Not sure if that's news or not, though.
Yep, heard Simon Pegg and Nick Frost go on about it when they were standing in on XFM last week. Simon Pegg was saying how much of a huge fan of the Prog he was!
'I was with you when Johnny Alpha got killed by the weird flying thing' - or something like that.