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

Typically having five release dates in a month means meager offerings in the final week, but it’s now the fourth quarter, so we have one of the summer’s more interesting failures, a moderately-budgeted adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower , plus the first season of the Robert Kirkman-created horror series Outcast , and a full house of holiday-targeting “complete series” releases from the BBC that includes the geek favorite series Orphan Black and Sherlock .

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

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 .

In Part 1, we talk about the down market in comic stores and what's happening in bookstores, the mass channel, and game stores.

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

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

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

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

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.