Comedy continued to rule the weekend box office charts with the majority of moviegoers sucking on The Pacifier starring Vin Diesel, which took the top spot with an estimated total of $30.2 million.

Steve Bates of Bookery Fantasy in Fairborn, Ohio saw the news that Marvel comics will soon be available in 7-11 stores and offers his thoughts on the increased availability of Marvels.

The big news on the manga fan sites last week was CMX's bowdlerizing of the edgy Tenjho Tenge manga.

Alias Comics has announced a pocket size, full color reprint of the first four issues of Legacy , an original fantasy series created by Les and Ernst Dabel.

The Star Wars saga is getting the Cine-Manga treatment from Tokyopop.

Fred Gallagher's Megatokyo Vol. #3 reached the third spot in bookstores, the best showing ever for an American-created manga title.

Marvel's Peter Cuneo announced that the publisher had reached a distribution agreement with the 7-Eleven convenience store chain that would more than double the number of current outlets for Marvel comics.

Paramount Pictures has obtained the film rights to Robert Kirkman's Invincible , a comic book series about the coming of age of the son of the world's most powerful superhero.

Retailer Gordon Lee of Legends, in Rome, Georgia was recently arrested for distributing a mature readers comic to a minor, but that wasn't the first case involving Lee and comics.

Hyperion Books for Children will publish 'graphic biographics,' biographics as comic stories in book format, in cooperation with the Vermont-based Center for Cartoon Studies.