Confessions of a Comic Book Guy is a weekly column by retailer Steve Bennett of Super-Fly Comics and Games in Yellow Springs , Ohio . This week, Bennett discusses changing values in society and popular culture.

Part Two of an interview with Gonzalo Ferreyra, Viz Media Vice President of Sales and Product Marketing.

In addition to its extensive release schedule for December Fantasy Flight Games has several new products on tap for the first month of 2009 as well.

Review of Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Speigelman, coming from Pantheon in October.

Mark Dudley, Illustrator, saw Steve Bennett’s most recent column about comics content and says comics reflect society.

McFarlane Toys will release a series of action figures from Halo Wars , the upcoming real-time strategy game based on the best-selling Halo videogame series.

This chart of the ICv2 Top 25 Anime Properties reflects sales in all channels in May, June, and the first half of July 2008.

This chart of the ICv2 Top 50 Manga Properties reflects sales in all channels in May, June, and the first half of July 2008.

In Part Three, we continue discussing First Second's 2009 publishing plans (including its first manhwa title), plus the company's efforts to target the education and library markets.

Brad Meltzer’s new novel, The Book of Lies , due out next week, was the impetus for a USA Today story this week on the origin of Superman, which Meltzer ties to the death of Mitchell Siegel, Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel’s father, in a Cleveland robbery in 1932.