Ilan Strasser of Fat Moose Comics in Whippany, New Jersey saw Rich (Dreamland) Biedrzycki's recent comments on reorder strategy and wanted to clarify the way he does things.

Warner Brothers has added Wednesday screenings in over 2,000 movie theaters as the studio pulls out all the stops in its efforts to set new box office records with the R-Rated, two-hour and seventeen minute The Matrix Reloaded .

Twentieth Century Fox has planned the largest global opening ever for X2: X-Men United , which will flash across screens in no fewer than 93 different markets across the globe on May 2, 2003.

With manga collections topping bookstore graphic novel sales in the U.S., it is interesting to note that this phenomenon is hardly confined to the U.S.

Noah Broessel of Pop Culture Paradise in Tempe, Arizona has obviously been viewing comments on Marvel from retailers that oppose its no overprint policy and had this to say.

Lots of projects of interest to pop culture retailers were bandied about in Hollywood this week with some projected as feature films and others as TV series.

P. Margolin of Compleat Comics on Maui, Hawaii, was prompted by Marvell COO Bill Jemas' recent open letter to retailers and Marvel's handling of its next Must Haves to send us this comment.

Dark Horse Comics announced its comic series based on the rock band Kiss at last year's San Diego Comicon without a lot of fanfare. After all, Image's Kiss: The Psycho Circus comic had sort of just faded away and expectations for Dark Horse's book were not very high. Well a year later, Gene Simmons, the tongue-wielding bassist and driving force behind Kiss licensing, will be back at San Diego, and he will be touting Dark Horse's number one comic for July.

Chris Pollichemi of Altered States Game and Hobby in Syracuse, New York has a different slant on the Yu-Gi-Oh shortage in hobby stores. He feels Upper Deck is making the right moves, but doesn't think much of the game, or some of its purchasers.

Yu-Gi-Oh is a hot topic with retailers because they can see that this CCG could be a top seller in the hobby if only enough product were available. Gail Burt of Metropolis Comics contrasts M:TG with Pokemon and has some advice for Upper Deck if they want to make Yu-Gi-Oh a perennial seller.