Estimated Quantities Based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data
March 3, 2002
Estimated quantities for initial orders on graphic novels shipping in March 2002 from pop culture stores ordering from Diamond US.
Quantity Estimates Based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data
March 3, 2002
Estimated quantities for initial orders on comics shipping in March 2002 from pop culture stores ordering from Diamond US.
In June
March 3, 2002
Dynamic Forces has announced that it will release trading cards based on Battle of the Planets in June. Alex Ross will be doing art for nine cards...
Beginning in July
March 3, 2002
Marvel Comics announced today that it will be reducing its retail prices on new trade paperbacks by $2 to $3, depending on page count, beginning in July 2002.
Which Will Introduce New Character
March 2, 2002
Steve Jackson Games has announced that its upcoming Hellboy RPG will include a new comic with script by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, Jai Nitz, and Steve Jackson Games' Philip Reed, pencils by Zach Howard, and inks by Peter Bergting.
Tezuka's Phoenix from Viz Comics
March 2, 2002
Tezuka began to publish his Phoenix manga stories to demonstrate that the medium he helped define had the potential to be as thought-provoking as any other branch of art or literature.
Osamu Tezuka and Astro Boy
March 2, 2002
Fred Schodt is the translator of the Astro Boy series from Dark Horse (and the co-translator of Phoenix , from Viz), but he is much more than a translator, he is an important conduit of Japanese culture to the English-speaking world.
Sorry About That, Folks
February 28, 2002
Due to an entry error, SimpsonMania Trading Cards was not entered as the #1 movie TV product for January. This has now been corrected.
Effect on US Macross Products Unknown
February 27, 2002
Anime News Network is reporting that a Japanese court has ruled that Harmony Gold, which has had US rights to Macross since 1984, cannot sell or license any further Macross merchandise.
He Doesn't Like It
February 27, 2002
Ilan Strasser of Fat Moose Comics and Games wrote in to say that he doesn't like Marvel's recently announced plan to bump prices on three of its lower-selling titles.
Plus Birdman, Dynomutt, Herculoids, Lain
February 27, 2002
Toynami displayed a wide variety of Robotech merchandise at the latest New York Toy Fair.
Odyssey Sequence on MTG Sites
February 26, 2002
A flurry of posts to at least two Magic: the Gathering Websites has raised the question of whether the sequence of rare cards in boxes of Magic the Gathering: Odyssey Booster Packs is truly random.
