Again
February 5, 2003
Smallville continues to churn out topflight ratings, when it counts, during the key sweeps period. On Tuesday night the series garnered the highest ratings ever achieved by any show on the WB network in the key 18-34 demographic.
Ships in April
February 4, 2003
Bandai Entertainment has announced that it will release regular and limited editioin DVDs of the first volume of Please Teacher (sometimes known as Onegai Teacher ) on April 25.
Serving His Customers
February 4, 2003
Daniel McAbee of The Tangled Web in Spartanburg, South Carolina saw our article on the Barnes & Noble exclusive on trade paperback editions of Marvel Masterworks and the Marvel response, and went about dealing with it.
As a Teenager
February 3, 2003
Fox Broadcasting has signed a deal with First Move Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, and Classic Media to produce a pilot for a TV series featuring Richie Rich.
Ultimate Venom
February 3, 2003
Marvel has announced that its next quickie reprint, Marvel Must-Have: Ultimate Venom , will reprint four consecutive issues of Ultimate Spider-Man , #33-#36.
Ted Turner Steps Down
January 29, 2003
Media giant AOL/Time Warner took a fourth quarter writedown of $45 billion, producing a loss of around $100 billion for 2002, the largest full-year loss in U.S. history.
For Comic Inserts
January 29, 2003
CrossGen Entertainment announced today that it has signed a deal to provide a 32-page comic supplement to Cinescape Magazine .
Based On Original Characters
January 29, 2003
Dark Horse Comics has signed an agreement with film director Tim Burton to create a program of toys and other merchandise based on original characters created by Burton.
'How Many Times?'
January 28, 2003
Gail Burt of Metropolis Comics in Downey, California saw our article on ordering Namor and had this to say.
In Libraries
January 28, 2003
Hafeez Amin of the Genesis Foundation for Literacy (which operates a comic store) in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad saw a recent retailer comment on working with schools for Free Comic Book Day and sent us this comment on working with libraries.
