VIZ Media will add two new Pokemon manga series and an activity book to its 2018 publishing schedule.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include the first Marvel Studios-produced Spider-Man movie, a fitting final tribute to Adam West’s Batman , the most successful R-rated comedy of the summer, the strong first season of the TV series based on Neil Gaiman’s American Gods , and a rare chance to see one of TV’s first great comedians in action.

There was a heavy manga presence at New York Comic Con, where manga publishers announced a number of new titles.

The Death Note movie started streaming on Netflix and just like clockwork, two Death Note titles turned up in the September 2017 Top 20 Adult Fiction Graphic Novel chart provided exclusively to ICv2 by NPD BookScan.

VIZ Media announced it will begin releasing My Hero Academia manga volumes at an increased pace in 2018.

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during September 2017.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during September 2017.

The decline in sales of comics and graphic novels to comic stores somewhat in September.

This week’s home entertainment releases include the fifth film in the popular Pirates of the Caribbean series, a moody indie “ghost” story, the latest seasons of iZombie and American Horror Story , a new edition of another science fiction series created by Gene Roddenberry, plus a new stylish gothic anime fantasy from the creators of Hellsing .

The end of September brings a pile of movie news.