Kodansha Comics will bring several of its digital-first series to print, including the cult favorite Saint Young Men.

After Fox's X-Men sequel, Dark Phoenix bombed and a Men in Black sequel disappointed, some might have worried that the superhero/comic book genre might be slipping, but Spider-Man: Far From Home, the second Spider-Man film made under the auspices of Marvel Studios and set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, forged a strong $185 million dollar six-day debut.

The mobile unit housed eight state-of-the-art gaming consoles in a setting right out of the latest Hollywood techno-action thriller.

The 64-page trade paperback features comic pages by various Marvel artists with the word balloons and captions left blank.

This week, Steve Bennett looks at views of the future in comics, and introduces us to hopepunk.

Last week it was suggested here that the debut of Pixar's Toy Story 4 would be something of a defining moment in diagnosing the virulence of the case of "sequelitis" that is affecting the 2019 box office, but the Pixar film's $118 million opening, though well below expectations, didn't really prove to be definitive.

WizKids will expand its Deep Cuts line of unpainted miniatures into X-Men characters from HeroClix this November.

Two spin-offs, a reconstituted Men in Black International and a multi-generational Shaft stumbled as the summer box office took a turn for the worse with total revenues down nearly 53% from the same weekend a year ago when The Incredibles 2 debuted with a stellar $182.7 million.

This week, Steve Bennett looks at Marvel EIC CB Cebulski's comments to a Swedish interviewer, thoughts on a movie or TV show based on Ms. Marvel, with a side trip to look at The Phantom.

Here's a preview of Red Sonja: Birth of the She-Devil #1, published by Dynamite Entertainment.