Comics and graphic novel comic store sales comps turned positive in May for the first time in six months.

The action’s been fast and furious in the world of geek movies over the past few days, and we round up the news here.

A 1982 work by famed horror artist Bernie Wrightson, who passed away in March, is back in print and at #7 on the May Top 20 Adult Fiction Graphic Novel chart provided exclusively to ICv2 by NPD BookScan.

Salkowitz looks at the state of Hollywood movie franchises as the summer tentpole season kicks off.

This week’s home entertainment releases are slim,but there are a few items of real interest including the latest season of the best police procedural on American TV, a gritty medieval historical drama that should appeal to fans of Game of Thrones , new editions of two anime classics that have been selling for big bucks online, plus a reduced price edition of the complete Beauty and Beast live-action TV series.

Rosario Dawson may soon be pulling double duty in the Marvel Universe -- the actress is in talks to join the cast of Twentieth Century Fox’s New Mutants.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include Fox’s best X-Men film to date, Jordan Peele’s slyly subversive, horror film Get Out , an animated film Vixen , and the second season of the cartoon series Static Shock.

Yesterday’s Preakness was a close race with Cloud Computing winning at the wire by just a head, but this weekend’s box office derby could be even closer.

Fantasy projects, casting updates, and scheduling shifts are the order of the day in the latest geek TV update.

Here's a preview of Robotech #1, published by Titan Comics.