Year over year sales were down despite strong sales at the top of each chart.

All this and more in Shop Talk, our roundup of comic and game store news.

In an unusual step for a new comics venture, Ghost Machine has added a colorist and a letterer as equity partners, exclusive to the company for future work.

Mad Cave forecasts a diverse array of Flash Gordon products aimed at every reader and every generation - mind-blowing comics, archival hardcovers, graphic novels for kids, and nostalgic 80s revivals!

Catwoman, Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy will skip an issue in August.

Check out new variant covers for Saladin Ahmed and Martín Cóccolo's Wolverine #1, on sale this September.

Popverse and The Comics Journal also have new editors.

Amazon will cut prices on thousands of books during the Amazon Book sale, a new six-day sales event.

A brand-new tale, extending the lore created in the original DC vs. Vampires and DC vs. Vampires: All-Out War.

The independent production company has added four new staffers.