Today only a surprisingly small percentage of pop culture retailers make much of an effort to sell apparel in their stores, but those that do often enjoy remarkable success. Here's the first in a series of examinations of the methods of retailers who have had great success in selling apparel items.

AnotherUniverse.com is up and running as one part of the Fandom inventory liquidation being run by CMI Holdings, parent of Comics and Comix and Thecomicstore.com. AU sent out an e-mail notice to its former customers on Friday, June 29th.

The Fox TV network has ordered a two-hour pilot based on the classic television series Battlestar Galactica, which was originally broadcast by ABC from 1978 through 1980.

A recent article in USA.Today highlighted the publishing phenomenon of the summer -- a huge increase in sales of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books.

In a open letter excerpted on the Anime News Service website, C.B. Cebulski, the founder and prime mover behind Fanboy Entertainment, announced that Fanboy is scaling back its publishing operations.

Fantasy Flight Games plans to announce the acquisition of the Lord of the Rings board game license (formerly held by Wizards of the Coast), with distribution to be handled exclusively by Alliance Game Distributors and Diamond Comic Distributors.

Ghost World , the film directed by Terry Zwigoff ( Crumb) and based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, has already garnered some rave reviews from key industry publications like Variety and the Hollywood Reporter .

The British website Empire On Line is reporting that Oscar-winning actor Nicholas Cage will star as Johnny Blaze in a movie version of the Ghost Rider comic. The film will be directed by Steven Norrington, who brought Marvel's Blade to the big screen.

D.P. 'Vern' Vernazzarro, one of the organizers of a drive to create a new organization that would further the interests of both comic and games retailers, told ICv2 that he is pleased with early reactions to his efforts.

Orson Welles' audacious first film, Citizen Kane , has often been voted the greatest film of all time, a deserved, though highly arguable distinction -- but there is no arguing the crucial importance of Welles' film on the history of American comic books.

Company profile for Intergalactic Trading Company, a distributor specializing in science fiction TV/movie related merchandise.

North American comic shop orders increased in the aggregate again for July, with the total dollars up around 10% from June.