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

Zack Snyder’s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice easily took the box office crown for the second week in a row, but the film’s $52.4 million 3-day total represented one of the biggest plunges in the history of superhero tentpole movies.

A nod to its roots in the comics arm of Martin Goodman’s publishing empire beginning in the late 1930s,

Chaosium Inc. continues its restructuring under new owners Moon Design Publications.

It’s been a fairly slow summer for home entertainment releases, but this is a great week for geek viewers thanks to X -Men: Days of Future Past , the inventive AI sci-fi film Ex Machina , the superior horror film It Follows , the first season of the Powers superhero/police procedural, plus the 5th season of the D&D influenced Adventure Time animated series.

Dynamite announced Warren Ellis as writer for its James Bond 007 comic, a licensing deal with Atari, Garth Ennis’s new creator-owned series A Train Called Love, a retrospective art book of artist Jose “Pepe” Gonzalez, and the art team on Aliens/Vampirella.

Comic-Con International has announced the nominees for this year’s Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award.

Marvel has announced a new miniseries starring Star Wars scoundrel Lando Calrissian, launching in July.

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

In Part 1, we talk about the market, Marvel's place in it, its packaging, and its graphic novel strategy.