We talked to IDW Media Holdings CEO Ted Adams at San Diego Comic-Con recently to get his view of the market and talk about IDW’s latest initiatives and plans. In Part 2 of our two-part interview, we talk about games, the entertainment division, running a holding company, and upcoming releases.

In Part 1 of our three-part interview, we talk about the overall state of the market, the graphic novel business, international sales, comic stores, and variants.

In Part 2 of our three-part interview, we talk about a new test in a large mass retailer, the digital market, changing the characters, and the kids market.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include the second season of the dark and compelling comic book noir Gotham , the first season of Toei Animation’s new more faithful adaptation of Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon , a new anime from the creator of Trigun , the Angry Birds Movie , and a powerful thriller from Pakistan directed by a woman about a mother and daughter’s flight across a country beset with internal strife.

Suicide Squad , fresh off setting all sorts of August box office records last weekend, followed the lead of Batman v. Superman (-69%), tumbling 67.3% in its sophomore session, though at $43.8 million it still had more than enough box office muscle to hold off all the new entries in this late summer movie season.

Michael Chernus has joined the cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming as Phineas Mason (aka The Tinkerer), the armorer of the underworld, who made his first appearance in Spider-Man #2 in April of 1963.

Michael Breakfield of Lone Star Comics in Arlington, TX read Rob Salkowitz’s latest column and had this to say.

Columnist Rob Salkowitz looks at why some superhero movies aren’t very good, and what it means.

The flow of TV series is starting to pick up in advance of the new season with two offerings with great geek appeal, the first season of the Supergirl TV series, and the excellent miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s novel 11/22/63 , plus for serious moviegoers, Tom Tkywer’s excellent adaptation of David Eggers’ A Hologram for the King.

In an executive session at the Television Critics Association meeting ABC Television President Channing Dungey admitted that the network had been having discussions with sister company Lucasfilm about a live-action Star Wars television series.