This week's home entertainment releases include the #1 film of 2018, plus the first live-action Pokemon movie, an Aretha Franklin documentary saved from the scrapheap with a computer restoration, a brilliant martial arts film from the auteur of The House of Flying Daggers, the latest seasons of the Archie Comics-inspired Riverdale and the Stephen King-based Mr. Mercedes, as well as new episodes of the white hot anime science fiction series Attack on Titan.

This week, Scott Thorne shares the secrets of ancient marketing tactics that still work centuries later on today's customer base.

David Leitch's Fast and Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw dropped 58%, but still had enough firepower to top the weekend box office.

This week, Steve Bennett talks about the decline of Mad Magazine and the rise of Tyra Banks' new graphic novel Modelland.

This week, Rob Salkowitz talks to Mark Waid about what's going on at Humanoids and the role of continuity-based comics in today’s evolving direct market.

Hobbs & Shaw , the Fast and Furious spin-off directed by David Leitch, took the weekend box office crown as expected.

This week, Scott Thorne discusses the new trend of publishers timing their distribution releases with Gen Con releases.

This week, Steve Bennett reveals his thoughts on the pure volume of content hitting streaming services versus the amount of time available to watch all of it.

Another month with five release dates yields few items of interest in its final week, though the thriller The Intruder and the rom com Long Shot both have their moments, and Bojack Horseman remains one of the more interesting American adult animated shows, and for those interested in 1960s animation can check out the 1967 sci-fi cartoon Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero, which was animated in Japan.

This week, Scott Thorne points out some highlights of the Fall issue of Internal Correspondence, focusing on the hobby game sales numbers.

Jon Favreau's photo realistic "reimagining" of The Lion King dropped over 60% in its second weekend, but still easily topped the box office, while Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood earned over $40 million.

This week, Steve Bennett looks back at San Diego Comic-Con, and wonders What If...? about the Russo brothers.