In Part 3, we talk about the reasons to re-use Marvel Now!, comic price resistance, Champions , and big graphic novels for the coming seasons.

DC's dominated the top sales ranks in August, with a very healthy sixteen titles selling over 100,000 copies to North American comic stores.

Marvel has authorized an additional, eighth issue for Civil War II , according to a post by writer Brian Michael Bendis.

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

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

Suicide Squad , fresh off setting all sorts of August box office records last weekend, followed the lead of Batman v. Superman (-69%), tumbling 67.3% in its sophomore session, though at $43.8 million it still had more than enough box office muscle to hold off all the new entries in this late summer movie season.

After a year in which DC’s comic store market share fell well below its Big Two competitor, DC scored a big win in July.

Columnist Rob Salkowitz looks at why some superhero movies aren’t very good, and what it means.

David Ayer’s Suicide Squad easily topped the weekend box office with a potent $135.1 million debut, a new August record, the third time this year that a superhero film has set a new monthly box office mark.

Live entertainment merchandising firm Araca Group will set up more than 50 “pop-up” stores in theaters this weekend.