This week, Bennett looks at a new sales tool for stores, crossovers, and some new comics worth reading.

Dark Horse Deluxe has announced a high-end product line based on The Witcher, debuting this fall.

CKRTLAB Toys and Captain Action Enterprises have partnered to release two new Captain Action vinyl figures.

Comic Fest was nostalgic for a purer form of nostalgia. And that fact ironically places it at the center of one possible future of comics culture.

This week’s entertainment offerings have a decided biographical slant, starting with the gangster film Black Mass , which features an extraordinary performance by Johnny Depp, the underrated biopic Steve Jobs, which is driven by Michael Fassbender’s portrayal of the Apple founder, and Trumbo in which Bryan Cranston plays the blacklisted screenwriter, but there are other delights too including the latest season of Lena Dunham’s Girls , the most faithful adaptation ever of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , plus the complete live-action Sabrina the Teenage Witch .

Tim Miller’s Deadpool , which stars Ryan Reynolds as the snarky “Merc with a Mouth,” obliterated February President’s Day weekend records with a stunning $150 million debut that was double the $70-75 million estimates of many box office analysts.

The Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comic Beasts of Burden created by Evan Dorkin, Jill Thompson, and Sarah Dyer, is returning in a one-shot comic, Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In , from Dark Horse.

Dynamite has hired Patrick O’Connell as its new Sales Manager.

WizKids has announced the Marvel Universe Pin Assortment.

The Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics Selection committee has announced the five finalists for the 2nd Annual award that honors the contributions made by McDuffie, the co-founder of Milestone Media.