Market conditions were good in hobby game stores in the Spring season (January through April), with increasing sales reported by almost everyone we interviewed.

This week's home entertainment releases include the #1 film of 2018, plus the first live-action Pokemon movie, an Aretha Franklin documentary saved from the scrapheap with a computer restoration, a brilliant martial arts film from the auteur of The House of Flying Daggers, the latest seasons of the Archie Comics-inspired Riverdale and the Stephen King-based Mr. Mercedes, as well as new episodes of the white hot anime science fiction series Attack on Titan.

This week, Scott Thorne discusses the new trend of publishers timing their distribution releases with Gen Con releases.

These charts of the Top 10 Hobby Channel Collectible Games, Top 3 Mass Market Channel Collectible Games and ​Top 5 Collectible Games Over-all reflect sales in Spring 2019.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during June 2019.

The Pokemon Company will release the Pokemon TCG: Hidden Fates expansion, featuring the 94-card "Shiny Vault" subset.

VIZ Media also revealed new series by the creators of Goodnight Punpun and Strobe Edge, more.

Eight new GX Tag Teams highlight a 230-plus-card set.

Diamond Comic Distributors has announced it final lineup of comic book titles that will be available at this year’s Halloween ComicFest, which will take place at participating comic shops on Saturday, October 26.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during May 2019.