X-Files Action Figures on Tap
May 14, 2001
Moore Action Collectibles announced that it has acquired a license from Twentieth Century Fox licensing to create a line of X-Files action figures.
Heads to UPN, Angel May Follow
April 23, 2001
Buffy the Vampire Slayer , the most critically acclaimed show on the WB network, will be heading to archrival UPN next fall. Buffy is important to specialty retailers since the show represents one of the strongest TV licenses of the past five years
Buffy Dominates TV Side
April 5, 2001
Fox's X-Men grabbed the most nominations for the 27th annual Saturn Awards presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films. The first motion picture featuring Marvel's mutant supergroup earned over $150 million at the box office and a whopping ten Saturn nominations.
Also Evolution
March 29, 2001
The Fox Kids Network is adding eight new series for next year including animated versions of the WB television series Buffy, The Vampire Slayer and the Dreamworks outer space comedy Evolution
Follow-up to DBZ
March 24, 2001
Score will follow up Dragonball Z , its strong initial entry into the Collectible Card Games arena with a CCG based on another very hot property, the popular Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series.
DBZ Tops MTV
March 20, 2001
The Cartoon Network's Toonami Block, which is largely composed of imported anime titles such as Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, Outlaw Star , and Ronin Warriors , has posted impressive gains in viewership over the past year.
And Los Bros, Humanoids, and APE
March 14, 2001
The increasing importance of graphic novels in traditional bookstores can be gauged by the increasing amount of coverage that they are receiving in the trade journal Publisher's Weekly .
Comics, GN Labeled '13 and Up'
March 11, 2001
Viz has announced that starting this month their Dragon Ball comics will no longer be edited for content and will carry a '13 and Up' label.
Reactions to 'Top Comics Below 100,000'
March 6, 2001
Our article last week on comic orders for March ('Top Comics Below 100,000') provoked a lot of reactions -- in fact, the most reactions of any article we've published since we launched a month ago.
Games Workshop Grants Exclusive on Major License
February 25, 2001
Alliance Game Distributors and Diamond Comic Distributors have announced that they will jointly have the exclusive right to distribute Game Workshop's new table-top war game based on the film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Ri ngs trilogy.
