This week’s home entertainment offerings include Jon Favreau’s hugely successful version of Kipling’s The Jungle Book , the fourth season of the DC-based CW series Arrow , the second season of the Disney-produced Star Wars Rebels , and excellent film about baseball that mostly takes place away from the diamond.

This week, Thorne talks about an internet video hyping the value of old Pokemon cards.

As the late summer doldrums ebb, home entertainment releases are ratcheting up, especially in the TV category with this week’s complement of five comic book-based TV series including the initial seasons of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow , Lucifer , and Ash vs. the Evil Dead , plus on the theatrical side, one of the best films of 2016 so far, Shane ( Iron Man 3 ) Black’s highly enjoyable The Nice Guys.

There has been action on several geek-related movie properties, and we round those announcements up here.

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.

Having already produced a six-episode animated series, Vixen , based on DC Comics’ first female African-American superhero, the Internet-based CW Seed has order another animated series, Freedom Fighters: The Ray , which will introduce the first gay superhero to star in his own TV series.

In Part 2 of our two-part interview, we talk about what’s happening at Vertigo, why The Killing Joke is blowing up sales records, comic pricing strategy, and the top DC releases between now and the end of the year.

Here's a review of Space Dandy Vol. 1 TP , published by Yen Press.

Comic-Con News: At its eponymous panel at San Diego, Warner Bros. unveiled some footage from Zack Snyder’s Justice League film, which hit theaters in 2017.