This week’s home entertainment offerings include the latest season of Fear the Walking Dead , the first season of the Superman prequel Krypton , Oscar winners Free Solo and The Favourite , plus the solid sports movie sequel Creed II and the better-than-you-might expect comedy drama Instant Family .

In yet another Tinseltown battle of sequels, How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World took the box office crown for the second weekend in a row, nosing out the over-performing Tyler Perry's A Medea Family Funeral, the ninth film in Perry's series of raucous family comedies.

Brian Hibbs is a longtime comic retailer, owner of Comix Experience in San Francisco, writer, and occasional direct market firebrand. He gave the State of the Industry address at the ComicsPRO Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina and gave us permission to reprint his remarks here.

This week, Steve Bennett looks at the role of comic book movies at the 2019 Academy Awards.

This week, Scott Thorne looks at the flurry of industry-changing announcements from Wizards of the Coast.

This week’s home entertainment releases include a Disney animated feature that earned half a billion dollars, a well-mounted historical drama that features great performances, plus new editions of the out-of-print Andromeda science fiction series created by Gene Roddenberry, and the eco-fantasy Beastmaster, a TV series loosely based on a novel by Andre Norton.

The "final" film in the How to Train Your Dragon Trilogy scored a franchise-best opening of $55.5 million, the best debut of 2019 so far, providing a glimmer of hope in what has been so far a grim year at the box office.

This week, Steve Bennett looks at the three new comics or comics-adjacent productions: Doom Patrol, The Umbrella Academy, and Kim Possible.

Rob Salkowitz looks at a possible way to manage the risks for comic (and game) stores.

This week, Scott Thorne looks back at what's changed and what's the most rewarding on the 29th anniversary of opening his store.

This week's home entertainment offerings include two films with multiple Oscar nominations, Bradley Cooper's remake of A Star Is Born, and Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me? plus a better-than-you-might-expect Nazi zombie movie, the latest Doctor Who holiday special, and a 45th Anniversary anime movie based on Go Nagai's Mazinger Z.

The James Cameron-produced, Robert Rodriguez directed Alita: Battle Angel won the Presidents’ Day Weekend box office with ease, surpassing modest expectations with a $27.8 million 3-day total. But the 2019 box office slide continued.