As the late summer doldrums ebb, home entertainment releases are ratcheting up, especially in the TV category with this week’s complement of five comic book-based TV series including the initial seasons of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow , Lucifer , and Ash vs. the Evil Dead , plus on the theatrical side, one of the best films of 2016 so far, Shane ( Iron Man 3 ) Black’s highly enjoyable The Nice Guys.

Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad moderated its box office free fall, dropping just 52% in its third weekend as it topped the box office with an estimated $20.7 million.

Amit Desai, formerly DC Entertainment Senior Vice President has been promoted to Executive Vice President, adding DC Collectibles, finance, and other functions to his responsibilities.

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.

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during July 2016.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during July 2016.

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.

Although there have been no recent hints of a second stand-alone Superman film in the expanded Warner Bros. DC Cinematic Universe, back in 2014 a Man of Steel sequel was slated for 2018.

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.