John Jelley of Pyrimid Comics & Games in Sierra Vista, Arizona saw the news about a McCain spokesperson's disparaging comments about D&D players and says it’s "disturbing that Mr. Goldfarb would assume that all people who play such games would be stupid liberal hippies.”

This week, Steve Bennett talks about news from the retail front lines, Arabian comics, and Mr. Freedom .

In Part Three, Levitz talks about the status of DC’s relationship with Flex, the Zuda Webcomic site, film plans and Hollywood ’s current interest in comics and superheroes.

In Part 2, Levitz talks about economic effects on the distribution channels, DC’s relationship with mass, its approach to event titles and its MMORG under development.

In Part One, Levitz talks about the current state of the market and its prospects, and the potential for Watchmen to bring new consumers to comics and graphic novels.

The dollar total for comics purchased by comic stores dropped again in July, by 3%, the sixth consecutive month of year over year declines.

Comic stores bought over 175,000 copies of the July issue of Secret Invasion, #4, only a few hundred copies down from their purchases of #3 in June.

These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during July 2008.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during July 2008.

Jesse Leon McCann of Comics Unlimited in Westminster , California saw the news about Paul Dini working with Top Cow and says Dini is the “consummate All Ages creator!”