The hobby games business marked an astounding eighth consecutive year of growth in 2016, with the hobby channel growing around 10%, according to retailers, distributors, and publishers interviewed by ICv2 as sources for this report.

One of the oldest collectible games and the newest were the big movers in the category in the September to December Fall season, according to reports from retailers, distributors, and publishers we interviewed. The Pokemon TCG was on fire for its full 20th Anniversary year, and finished strong.

There has been a lot of movement on upcoming geek film productions in the last week, and we round up the news here.

Megastar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is set to get a standalone film for Shazam’s arch-nemesis Black Adam.

The Walking Dead and March graphic novels continued to dominate the Top 20 BookScan.

Although ratings this season are down, The Walking Dead graphic novels were in higher positions in November vs. a year ago.

Archie Comics announced a comic book tie-in for the upcoming Riverdale TV series from the CW.

Marvel has been teasing ‘MU’ for the past week, accompanied by the names of writer Cullen Bunn and various artists.

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.

The nominees for the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced.