Steve Bates of Bookery Fantasy in Fairborn, Ohio saw the news that Marvel comics will soon be available in 7-11 stores and offers his thoughts on the increased availability of Marvels.

The steady drumbeat of exclusive signings by the Big Two continued this week as Marvel inked artist Paolo Rivera and writer Dan Slott to exclusive contracts.

Hollywood writer/director Zak Penn has told Sci-Fi Wire that he has been engaged to write the screenplay for the third X-Men film.

Marvel's Peter Cuneo announced that the publisher had reached a distribution agreement with the 7-Eleven convenience store chain that would more than double the number of current outlets for Marvel comics.

The top 13 best-selling comics were all Marvels in January, with the top title from any other publisher selling less than 70,000 copies.

Wizard Entertainment will release a special extra issue of Wizard: The Comics Magazine on Wednesday March 9th.

Columbia Pictures is ready to finance Tonight, He Comes , a dark superhero tale written by Vincent Ngo, as a vehicle for Will Smith.

Robert Scott of Comickaze in San Diego, California saw the comment from Sara Grey on the Spider-Man 2 movie going out free with the first million of Sony's new portable game platform and feels there are better ways to capitalize on media tie-ins to drive traffic to comic stores.

Sara Grey of Mira Mesa Comic Gallery in San Diego, California saw our story on the inclusion of free copies of Spider-Man 2 with the first million of the new PlayStation Portable and wants such promotions to include a connection to the products that spawned the property.

The Spider-Man 2 movie will be a free premium with the first million units of the PlayStation Portable, which is shipping on March 24th.