Bows in Japan in December
March 8, 2001
Shusuke Kaneko, who directed the well-received modern Gamera trilogy, will direct the next Japanese Godzilla film. The film will be set in 2004, exactly 50 years after Godzilla 's first appearance.
Pulp Fiction RPG Due This Summer
March 8, 2001
White Wolf has announced that Warren Ellis, the writer of The Authority, Planetary , and Transmetropolitan for DC's Vertigo line has signed on to write for White Wolf's pulp fiction role-playing game, Adventure , which will debut this summer.
Art Asylum, Image Collaborate
March 8, 2001
Art Asylum will produce four or five action figures based on characters from the film and create a comic adaptation of the story in conjunction with Image, which will publish the graphic novel version.
Las Vegas, March 19-22, 2001
March 8, 2001
Here's the final list of exhibitors for the 2001 GAMA Trade Show, coming soon.
Pro, Con, In Between
March 7, 2001
Marvel President Bill Jemas' defense of his no overprint policy has fed the continuing discussion over the future of the comics business.
Fast-growing Segment Targets Collectors
March 6, 2001
While the toy industry, and in particular the action figure category had a terrible year in the mass market in 2000, the segment that targets the adult collector market continued to grow.
UGO Gets $$, Stan Lee Media Co-Founder Leaves Country, More
March 25, 2001
Pop culture content sites are in the news as we write this, so we're taking the opportunity to do an update on the category.
Busiek and Perez to Create
March 6, 2001
The big news from the Orlando, Florida Megacon last weekend was the announcement from Marvel and DC that the long-awaited JLA/Avengers crossover will become a reality.
Key Items 'Underproduced'
March 5, 2001
To keep interest and demand high, Mattel is determined to limit production on certain key items like a transparent plastic Harry Potter figure (w/invisibility cloak), and Harry's Levitating Challenge playset.
Due in July
March 19, 2001
Guardians of Order, the Canadian game publisher responsible for Sailor Moon , Tenchi Muyo! , Dominion Tank Police , and several other anime-based role-playing games, has announced that it will produce a new roleplaying game based on the El-Hazard anime.
Issue on Sale Now
March 6, 2001
Joe Sacco, whose Safe Area Gorazde has received excellent press recently drew four new pages of his special brand of comic reportage for the issue of Time Magazine that is out today -- March 5, 2001. The pages depict Sacco's return to the Middle East for the first time since the 1990s.
Reactions to 'Top Comics Below 100,000'
March 6, 2001
Our article last week on comic orders for March ('Top Comics Below 100,000') provoked a lot of reactions -- in fact, the most reactions of any article we've published since we launched a month ago.
