We ask about key decisions made at the end of March: to shut down most functions at Diamond and Alliance, and to delay payments to vendors.

We talk about the surprising impact on Diamond's relationship with DC Comics, its second largest supplier.

We talk about how GFE companies will handle the product caught in the pipeline between order and shipment during the shutdown, and Diamond's new competitive landscape.

We talk about what will happen if there's rolling chaos, with regional shutdowns and openings across the country, and plans for Free Comic Book Day.

We talk about the reorganization of Steve Geppi's companies into Geppi Family Enterprises, his plans for the future of his companies, and for his ownership of them.

Here's a preview of Devil's Highway #1, published by Artists Writers & Artisans.

Funko, Inc. unveiled Marvel Battleworld: Mystery of the Thanostones, a micro collectible, tabletop gaming system, for broad release after a first-to-market release in Target.

Renegade Game Studios announced Gudetama: The Tricky Egg Card Game, a trick-taking card game, for release in August 2020.

Renegade Game Studios revealed that it has hired Chris Whitpan as their new Event and Conventions Manager.

The schedule Marvel Comics just released for the last three weeks of July mixes titles originally scheduled to release in four different months in those three weeks.

BOOM! Studios will launch a new comic series based on the Mega Man: Fully Charged animated series in August.

In this column, Rob Salkowitz interviews key players and surveys the convention business in the COVID-19 era.