This week, Steve Bennett asks the question, "Did Avi Arad keep his receipt when he acquired the rights to Popeye ?"

This week, Steve Bennett talks about retooling classic characters.

Jonathan Mostow is working with Virgin Comics to develop a film based on his comic The Megas.

Peter Berg, director of The Kingdom , is set to helm a new adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune .

Fantasy Flight Games announced at GenCon a partnership with Future Pastimes and Eon Products to revive and update Cosmic Encounter and Borderlands.

First Second Books plans to publish Paul Pope's full color, 4-volume Martian epic Total THB in 2009.

Mike Banks of Samurai Comics in Phoenix, Arizona reports that he had the best Free Comic Book Day yet.

According to Nausicaa.net, the new English language dubbed version of Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind will get a limited theatrical release in the U.S. this summer.

SOTA had its 2005 toy line on display at To Fair, allowing for a look at more of the figures that were announced over the last couple of months.

The SCI FI Channel has ordered a two-hour pilot based on the Event Comics character Painkiller Jane.