Lauren Cohan, of The Walking Dead, will be at Denver Comic Con.

Denver Comic Con is pulling out all of the stops this year with many impressive guest speakers, including the just-announced appearances of three of the stars of AMC's The Walking Dead. Lauren Cohan, Steven Yeun and Chandler Riggs -- who play Maggie Green, Glenn and Carl Grimes respectively -- will all be attending.

This is the first year that San Diego-based Comic Con (not to be confused with the long-running Mile Hi Con, which has been around for more than forty years) has put on a show in Denver and the response has already been so large that the organizers have had to find a new venue.

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A runner and zombie volunteer post-race in Atlanta.

Luckily, they aren't the running zombies.

The "Run for your Lives" zombie 5K obstacle course is coming to Colorado this summer, where fitness freaks bored by the running routine will have to dodge "zombies" -- volunteers complete with fake blood and lumbering steps -- as part of the race.

It's like The Walking Dead, but at a faster pace (although that's not hard to do.)

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The Devil Inside Me

With the release of The Devil Inside, out Friday, the cinema gods are taking a moment to remind all of us that religion is scary -- It's all higher powers and judgments and abductions by beings of light and women turning into salt and beings of pure good offset by beings of pure evil, and all of that has one thing in common: scary.

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Products! Proooooooduuuucts!

It's been close to a decade since the gore-spattered snowball of the zombie fad started rolling -- check, for example, George Romero's filmography, which boasts zero Whatever of the Dead flicks between 1990 and 2004 and five in the time since -- and as this Halloween approaches, it's once again reaching a critical mass. There were no less than two zombie events over this last weekend alone -- Denver's Zombie Crawl (with a pre-party and after-party) and a (no shit) Zombie Mixed Martial Arts cage-match, and more to come. So popular are zombie costumes right now that they're a viable rival to Halloween costumes that begin with the word "slutty." It's enough to make you think some kind of virus infected everybody with a need to slavishly buy the shit (insert point about irony of zombies being a metaphor for consumerism here). And considering the array of unbelievably stupid zombie products out there, that's not a huge stretch.

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Tim Tebow: Dead or Undead?

At tomorrow's pre-Zombie Crawl Afraid of the Dark reception for the Bogeyman Art Show at MacSpa, you can commission comic artist Stan Yan to create an on-the-spot zombie makeover for you on paper, which you can then hang on your wall and remember that important day forever, dead or undead. The price, discounted from his usual comic convention fee, is $40 per rotting head; following is a sampling of his haunting oeuvre.

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Brain-dead ballerinas on the 2010 Zombie Crawl.

This weekend is all about spooky running and walking, apparently -- with both Scream Scram and the Zombie Crawl lighting up the 16th Street Mall with masked, athletic nuts. If that's not really your thing, don't worry, because we've also got some good old fashioned comedy, shopping, art shows and more.

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Stephanie DeCamp

Colorado Springs has a hard reputation to wrestle with, what with the Air Force base and Focus on the Family so near. And for a bunch of punk-rock and zombie enthusiasts, it seems like a hard kind of place to throw a good party, let alone one with enough cred to pull anyone else into it. But when even death can't stop you, chances are you have enough motivation to make it happen, and Colorado Springs' Zombie Fest has made it happen five times now.

Held at the Missile Mountain Roller Derby Rink 20 minutes outside of the downtown Springs, the fest braved even the rain -- something about fake blood always puts people in a good mood. Add that to the roster of seven local, standard-issue punk bands, ten kegs and one blood-and-guts wrestling pit (ladies only!) and clearly, you'll get to see many a happy zombie.

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Aaron Thackeray

See the full slideshow from Frozen Dead Guy Days.

In beautiful Nederland lies the dry-iced body of the deceased Bredo Morstøl, a Norwegian man who believed science would one day allow for his reanimation. As such, the town for the past decade, has hosted "Frozen Dead Guy Days," complete with a parade of hearses, a coffin race, and tours of the -100 degree Tuff Shed, where Morstøl's body lies. Nederland native and photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos from the festival on March 5, 2011.

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Aaron Thackeray

Now that Denver's hallowed annual 16th Street Mall Zombie Crawl has gotten the nod from the Guinness Book of World Records and we've surely become the Zombie Capital of the World, doesn't it seem like a shame to just pack up your Zombie gear until next year? The Halloween streets are calling out to all urban ghouls, and the Art District on Santa Fe is answering that call tonight with an Art District Zombie Crawl and Halloween Party that mixes up art-walking with seasonal high-jinks. To quote district board member and enthusiast Dana Cain, "Where else can you look at great art, get candy from everyone and watch zombie hordes shambling by?" Right-o. What she said.

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Photo: Aaron Thackeray

See our full zombie walk photo slideshow.

Danny Newman is pretty confident Denver will become zombie capital of the world.

No, he's not predicting an outbreak of a government-created virus that turns the populous into shambling (or running, whichever you prefer), flesh-craving monsters, but he does think that this past weekend's "Zombie Walk" on the 16th Street Mall drew enough zombie wannabes to put Denver in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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