Hollywood studios tend to avoid competing with their own TV spectacular on Oscar weekend, and this year was no exception with only one new release with any serious box office hopes, Jordan Peele’s Get Out , a clever bit of social commentary wrapped up in the trappings of a horror film.

This week, Bennett looks at comics in a politicized time.

Twentieth Century Fox released a prologue video for Ridley Scott’s new Alien: Covenant movie, which confirms James Franco’s casting.

Casper the Friendly Ghost, Richie Rich, Baby Huey, and the rest of the Harvey gang will be off on new adventures.

Comic writer Gail Simone is urging her 90,000+ Twitter followers to support their local comic stores by picking up their pull box purchases.

Principal photography on the Han Solo-centered Star Wars Anthology film officially began this week.

Dynamite has added two more releases to its spring lineup: Atari Poster Book and Pathfinder: Runescars .

Titan Comics made a number of announcements about their 2017 comics releases, which include The Death of Stalin, Blood Bowl, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Tekken, Robotech, and more.

Dynamite will release the first Atari comic in decades, a new James Bond book, and a comic book prequel to the hit Red Rising novel trilogy in May.

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