Here are ICv2's Top Five Toy/Model/Statue Stories of 2001. These rankings are based on the business impact of these events on pop culture retailers. 1.Funimation and Irwin team up for DBZ Toys.

DC has announced that it is going back to press on DKSA #1, the first issue of its Dark Knight sequel series, which was released three weeks ago.

Despite three very strong graphic novel/trade paperback quarters and one very strong comic quarter, combined comic and graphic novel orders from North American pop culture stores declined 3% in 2001 vs. 2000.

Blue Line Pro, the company that manufactures blue line pages for comic artists and also publishes Sketch, a 'how-to' magazine for comic artists, is set to publish Comics Continuum , a 64-page quarterly magazine based on the comic news website maintained by veteran comics journalist Rob Allstetter.

Green Ronin Publishing is set to launch its first d20 superhero role-playing game in 2002.

Dan DeCarlo, who worked at Archie Comics for over 40 years before he was fired as a result of a dispute over the ownership of the rights to Josie & the Pussycats, died at the age of 82.

Today's Variety reports that Fox is going full steam ahead with a film adaptation of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen .

Video Business reports that Senators Joe Leiberman and Herb Kohl have sent a strongly worded letter to 34 retail chains, which comprise the bulk of the videogame sales and rental business.

Wargames West CEO Wayne Godfrey announced that the company would be shutting down after more than twenty years of serving retailers with a full line of strategy, role-playing, and collectible card games.

Strange Stories for Strange Kids , the second Little Lit comics anthology, was featured twice on the Today Show recently.