This week, Thorne previews some striking offerings for Free RPG Day.

Monte Cook Games will launch Cypher Play , a new organized play program aimed at brick-and-mortar retail stores for players of Numenera, The Strange and the Cypher System roleplaying games.

Dynamite Entertainment has announced several summer releases.

Pantheon will release Charles Burns’ trilogy of Doug’s long strange trip in the collected volume Last Look .

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during April 2016.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during April 2016.

It’s another light week for home entertainment releases with the exception of the latest season of Netflix’s most popular original series, Orange Is the New Black , a superb old school period horror film, and a couple of edgy anime series, the sci-fi fantasy Assassination Classroom and the Toonami-airing action-packed dark fantasy Akame ga Kill!.

Here is a preview of the Death of X variant covers from Marvel Comics.

Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has directly addressed the controversy over changing the race and ethnicity of the character of The Ancient One.

The controversial decision to cast Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One in Doctor Strange may have been about preserving access to the Chinese market,