Marvel has announced that it is changing the terminology for two of its in-house c om ic ratings effective with products on sale August 6, 2003 .

In addition to the seven acquisitions of Japanese manga properties that Tokyopop announced at Anime Expo, the company also announced three new domestically produced manga series for release this October.

A Paid Advertisement. Beckett Comics takes fans into the bleak future thus far only glimpsed in the movies, courtesy of a new officially licensed comic book series, Terminator 3: Before the Rise .

Buddy Saunders of the Lone Star Comics chain, based in Arlington, Texas, saw Will (RW Comics) Masterson's question to retailers and offered this optimistic advice.

CrossGen Comics has announced the winners of recent drawings associated with its ICv2 promotions.

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has announced that its board of directors has awarded the 2003 Defender of Liberty award to Mile High Comics owner Chuck Rozanski.

Don Alsafi of G-Mart Comics in Batavia, Illinois saw the comment from Chris Lynch of Serious Comics and feels Marvel's intentions in reducing the amount of info in Previews were more benign than Lynch described them.

Michael Tierney of The Comic Book Store in Little Rock, Arkansas was concerned enough about Arkansas House Bill 1525, which would regulate display of publications deemed 'harmful to minors', to pen this Open Letter to the Arkansas House of Representatives.

Will Masterson, who hopes to open a store soon as RW Comics in Danbury, Connecticut, wonders whether the Talk Back comments are blowing off steam, or a sign of real trouble.

Mike Boze of HawgHead Comics was moved by a recent ad in Wizard and the History Channel comics program to send us this comment.