Wizard's Stewart Morales gave his Tony Robbins impression at the Diamond/Alliance Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, roaming the crowd with his headset mike touting upcoming and current Image releases.

We just returned from Las Vegas, where we attended the Diamond/Alliance Retailer Summit over the last two days.

In Part III of this far-ranging interview, the person in charge of DC's business operation talks about its option to buy Diamond, the public dialogue with Marvel, circulation estimates, media tie-ins, the prospect for radical change at DC, and DC's growing toy and statue business.

In Part II of this far-ranging interview, the person in charge of DC's business operation talks about the future of direct market retailing, the growing importance of the bookstore channel, the original graphic novel format, overprinting, the future of newsstand distribution and the periodical format of comics, and the potential impact of Japanese pop culture on American.

In Part I of this far-ranging interview, the person in charge of DC's business operation talks about how his background in the business, the organization of DC's top management, the comic market size and trends, the state of DC, and the comics code.

Retailers have been debating the proposed change with some vigor.

Mochizuki published 48 trade paperback volumes of this series in the decade following the debut of Wild 7 in 1969.

John Danovich, Director of Special Projects at ACD Distribution, will become Vice-President of Sales for Fast Forward Entertainment, a Wisconsin-based publishing company.

As it becomes increasingly clear that the U.S. (and perhaps the rest of the world) is slipping into a recession, we decided to take a look at the potential impact on sales of the product categories carried in pop culture stores -- anime, comics, toys, games, and movie/TV merchandise.

We wanted to let you hear what some of the retailers that won the Grow with Shojo display contest had to say about it.