How to Promote Shadowrun?, A few ideas. . . Options

[Moonstone Spider]

Recent threads have mentioned that Dumpshock amounts to an iron lung keeping the dying Shadowrun genre alive. This leads to an obvious question, what can we do about it?

Obviously promoting Shadowrun is a good thing but probably not enough. The books are hard to find but are on the shelves, but what Shadowrun really needs is something to draw in new blood. I know the legalese to Shadowrun is all screwed up so for the moment I'm ignoring them, more on that later. Here's my notions:

A Shadowrun Movie:
Obviously this would draw a huge number of people to Shadowrun. Few things would be better for the Game than to have a (good) Shadowrun movie made. Unfortunately the odds of a good one are slim, more than likely it would be another Wing Commander, a movie that had only the vaugest relationship with it's parent game and turned people away from it, due to budget constraints or simply not attracting a skilled enough director.

A Shadowrun TV Show/Cartoon:
The same issues as above apply, however it might benefit Shadowrun even more than a movie to have a TV show running year after year attracting new gamers. And if a bad director is messing things up he could be canned and a new better one found.

A Shadowrun Comic Book:
This has a little more potential in my mind. Less initial startup cash than a movie means it can probably have a prayer of happening, and like a TV show it might run for years and attract new gamers. Also a bad writer could be canned and replaced with a new one who would boost the ratings.

A Shadowrun Online Comic:
This strikes me as the most likely option and the one I'd like to try. It has most of the advantages of the comic book option, with an even lower startup cost, and there are probably enough skilled artists and writers here on Dumpshock to make it happen. A Team of an artist or two, a good writer, and a webmaster with the skills to make an attractive and functional website could easily build an online comic that would attract attention and draw readers. And comics do sell merchandise, a link from the comic to dumpshock, another to Amazon.com's Shadowrun books, and the comic could easily boost sales of books while attracting new members to the Shadowrun universe, and possibly pumping new life into the Genre.

So the question becomes, where do the legal threads lie on such ideas and how could they be implemented?