This week, Bennett talks about some similarities between comic sales in the U.S. and Japan .

The Sci Fi Channel has renewed its original series Stargate Atlantis for a fifth season.

The twenty-first Lucca Comics and Game Festival will be held in the beautiful Tuscan city of Lucca from November 1st to November 4th.

In Part III Top Cow's Matt Hawkins talks about Wanted and the difficulties of working with Hollywood.

ICv2 talked with Top Cow President Matt Hawkins to see how the company deal with its multi-media opportunities.

Director Steven C. Miller will helm Jack Phillips' adaptation of the Area 52 comic book series.

Sharpening the Sword is a regular column by retailer John Riley of Grasshopper's Comics, a 1300 square foot comic and games store in Williston Park , New York . This week, Riley talks about the trend of superheroes cast as villains in many of today's comics.

Marvel has confirmed to ICv2 that the 'Brand New Day' event will start in January of 2008 rather than in December.

A near mint copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 has sold for $227,000, the highest price ever paid for a Silver Age comic book.

Emblazoned across Yoichiro Ono's striking cover for the November issue of Wired is 'Manga Conquers America. '