Terry Staats of Eastside Comics in Houston, Texas is excited about the potential for Sin City to drive sales in his store, but was told by a promotion agency comic stores weren't a fit.

An article in Publishers Weekly by Calvin Reid about cutbacks in ADV's publishing division has led some doomsayers on the Net to prophesize the 'end of the manga boom' -- a prediction that is not borne out by sales results from either bookstores or the direct market.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon will write and direct a live action motion picture based on the DC Comics character Wonder Woman .

Dynamite Entertainment's Red Sonja #0 has garnered orders of more than 200,000 copies, the best performance by a non-Marvel or DC title in over a decade.

Former Marvel Marketing Manager and Tekno Comics staffer John Taddeo has had the terms and conditions of his initial offer accepted by the trustee of the Acclaim estate to purchase the rights to the characters of the Valiant Universe.

Blue Sky Studios' new CGI feature Robots easily topped the weekend box office chart.

Archie plans to give Josie & the Pussycats a manga makeover.

Titan Books has announced an agreement with IPC Media to rescue and restore the classic British comic strips, The Spider and The Steel Claw.

Image Comics has announced that Joe Casey and Tom Scioli are collaborating on Godland , a new cosmic adventure series debuting in June.

Joe Krolik of C om ics America in Winnipeg, Manitoba saw the news that Marvel c om ics will be sold in 7-11 stores and the c om ment on the plan fr om Jim Brocius of Cosmic C om ics, and sent us his thoughts on content for the c-store channel.