Comic-Con News: Reports from San Diego indicate that Ben Affleck is working with DC’s Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns on the script for a standalone Batman movie, which Affleck would also star in and direct.

Comic-Con News: At the San Diego Comic-Con DC Comics revealed that Andy Kubert and Klaus Janson will provide the interior art for Dark Knight III: The Master Race.

Comic-Con News: Universal Cable Productions announced two new comic book related television development deals today: an adaptation by Warren Ellis of Daniel Munoz’s 1970s Mexican comic El Pantera , and an option for Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery’s Kill Shakespeare.

Randy Martin of Comics Plus comments on Comic-Con International agreeing to stay in San Diego for two more years.

Saying that “I’m at a point financially where I can do whatever I want… and this is what I want to do,” Jim Starlin announced that he was writing and drawing a new Dreadstar miniseries.

Comic-Con News: On the eve of the San Diego Comic-Con, Dynamite Entertainment has announced a number of initiatives including a Sheena, Queen of the Jungle/Tarzan crossover.

Marvel Comics’ expansive Secret Wars crossover event, which debuted with a bang in May, continued to overwhelm the charts in June with Secret Wars titles taking the first two spots and 11 of the top 25.

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during June 2015.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during June 2015.

This week Bennett looks at Marvel and DC's relaunch character reinventions, and considers how the current incarnations and their stories stack up against previous iterations.