Men in Black II thoroughly trounced the competition and pulled in an estimated $90 million over the long 5-day holiday weekend.

Dark Horse Comics announced its comic series based on the rock band Kiss at last year's San Diego Comicon without a lot of fanfare. After all, Image's Kiss: The Psycho Circus comic had sort of just faded away and expectations for Dark Horse's book were not very high. Well a year later, Gene Simmons, the tongue-wielding bassist and driving force behind Kiss licensing, will be back at San Diego, and he will be touting Dark Horse's number one comic for July.

Inkworks has acquired the rights to produce a set of trading cards based on The Osbournes .

Initial piece orders from comic stores on the top comic titles in July were buoyed by the addition of two first issues that both sold well over 100,000 copies, Transformers Armada #1 and Battle of the Planets #1, at the number one and number three positions respectively.

Estimated quantities for initial orders on comics shipping in July 2002 from pop culture stores ordering from Diamond US.

Robert Scott of Comickaze in San Diego, California had a strong reaction to last week's Marvel press conference on The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood #1 and related topics. He feels that Marvel's policies hurt its own sales.

Variety reported that Dreamworks has purchased a screenplay by comic book scribe Grant Morrison.

Although Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada mentioned that he was 'perturbed that the The Brotherhood #1 was so under-ordered by retailers,' Jemas thanked retailers for taking a chance and investing in a new and different kind of comic.

Mike Boze of HawgHead Comics in Fort Smith, Arkansas would like a collection of the first three issues of Origin to make it easier to sell the later issues, which he still has in stock...

Initial piece orders from comic stores on the top comic titles were weaker in June, with orders dropping on seventeen of the top 25 titles.