Fresh off his success in Civil War II , the House of Ideas’ workhorse scribe, Brian Michael Bendis, will be writing two major new ongoing comic book series for Marvel this fall.

Thanos will be returning to the Marvel Universe in a big way with the launch of Thanos #1, a new ongoing series written by Jeff Lemire with art by Mike Deodato and a cover by Jeff Dekal.

An ICv2 Release. North American digital comic sales declined roughly10% to $90 million in 2015, down from $100 million in 2014.

When asked about the status of Fox’s long-gestating Gambit X-Men spin-off film, producer/writer Simon Kinberg stated that the studio now had “a great script on that,” and was planning to begin shooting the film in the spring of 2017.

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

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

After a slumping five-month period at the beginning of 2016 in which comics and graphic novel sales to comic stores went down over 5%.

It was 2007 when Genndy Tartakovsky announced his take on Luke Cage, now the four-issue miniseries will finally see print.

Exciting new graphic novels are driving sales in the book channel, the publisher dynamics are changing, and TV brought a long-running series back into the public eye in June, according to the Top 20 Adult Fiction Graphic Novel chart provided exclusively to ICv2 by Nielsen BookScan.

Marvel will finally address all the unanswered questions surrounding the fate of the Mutants and the Inhumans in the wake of Secret Wars in the upcoming miniseries Death of X.