We also got the early word that the third volume of Black Heaven was on the way in early 2001.
In 2000, news was light but had a couple of things happening as it was Thanksgiving that day.
In terms of reviews, we were working on Queen Emeraldas at the time while Japanese release reviews included Gokoudu, Power Stone, and Ruroni Kenshin: Tsuki-oku-hen.
We had a couple of columns land back then from both Ladycat and a new Philosophy in a Teacup piece.