Rich Waldbiesser of Six Feet Under Games in New Holland, Pennsylvania saw the second comment by Steven Olsen of A Little Shop of Comics on CCG pre-releases, in which he looked at Magic events in his area, and takes a look at national numbers for Magic events.

Edward Bolme, Brand Manager for TCGs at Press Pass , saw comments about CCG pre-release events and wanted to point out that pre-release events aren't bad, but should be offered to all stores.

Dave Salisbury of Fan Boy Three in Manchester, England, saw Steven Olsen's additional comments about CCG pre-releases and says the UK recently adopted the pre-releases for all stores approach and recommends it to U.S. retailers.

In Part 3 of our interview with Tokyopop's Mike Kiley, we talk about Tokyopop's fiction program, the differences between Japanese light fiction and the U.S. market, and what's next after Fruits Basket .

This week, Bennett talks about the joy of comic strip collections.

Steven Olsen of A Little Shop of Comics in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, who kicked off our discussion of CCG pre-release events responds to Dave Salisbury of Fan Boy Three with some numbers, and says, 'numbers don't lie.'

Paul Stock of Librairie Astro in Montreal , Quebec saw the comments on the location of the Diamond seminars and recalls that there used to be seminars at various locations.

Virgin Comics' one-shot comic Virulents will be made into a movie produced by Virgin and New Regency.

DC Comics has ended its relationship with Hachette for bookstore graphic novel distribution, and will be moving to Random House early next year.

A film based on the Humanoids series Lucha Libre , written by Jerry Frissen with art by Bill and Gobi, will start shooting early next year.