In Part 1, we discuss recent market trends in comic stores and the book market, and the nature of those changes.

Fantasy Flight Games will release Nightcrawler Hero Pack, for Marvel Champions: The Card Game, into retail.

Webtoon properties that have big audiences can bring those audiences to print collections in a powerful way.

Keenspot will launch Mark Spears Monsters, a new bi-monthly comic series based on the trading card intellectual property by Spears.

This week, columnist Rob Salkowitz examines the recent controversy over apparently AI-generated (or assisted) DC covers, and what it means.

Exotic Cancer revealed Nightshift, a new exotic dancer board game.

All this and more in Shop Talk, our roundup of comic and game store news.

Marvel Studios' juggernaut, Avengers: Endgame, topped the charts for a third straight weekend, but it scored only a narrow victory over Warner Bros.' live-action hybrid Detective Pikachu, which set a new domestic record for a video game adaptation with a $58 million opening weekend.

Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame obliterated all opening weekend box office records with an astounding $350 million debut in North America, which was just part of an equally impressive global bow totaling $1.2 billion .

The James Cameron-produced, Robert Rodriguez directed Alita: Battle Angel won the Presidents’ Day Weekend box office with ease, surpassing modest expectations with a $27.8 million 3-day total. But the 2019 box office slide continued.