In Part Three, Levitz talks about the status of DC’s relationship with Flex, the Zuda Webcomic site, film plans and Hollywood ’s current interest in comics and superheroes.

In Part 2, Levitz talks about economic effects on the distribution channels, DC’s relationship with mass, its approach to event titles and its MMORG under development.

In Part One, Levitz talks about the current state of the market and its prospects, and the potential for Watchmen to bring new consumers to comics and graphic novels.

The dollar total for comics purchased by comic stores dropped again in July, by 3%, the sixth consecutive month of year over year declines.

Comic stores bought over 175,000 copies of the July issue of Secret Invasion, #4, only a few hundred copies down from their purchases of #3 in June.

Federal Judge Gary Allen Feess ruled against Warner Bros. on Monday in a lawsuit brought by Fox to stop the release of Warner’s Watchmen film, due out next March.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during July 2008.

DC Comics has ordered 900,000 additional copies of Watchmen since the movie trailer debuted.

Sony is doing everything it can to get its adaptation of Flash Gordon to the big screen as quickly as possible.

Things changed dramatically in bookstores in July, according to the BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novels chart for the month, with a 20 year old title, Watchmen , taking over the #1 slot and American titles taking a majority of the top 20 positions.