It’s another light week for home entertainment releases with the exception of the latest season of Netflix’s most popular original series, Orange Is the New Black , a superb old school period horror film, and a couple of edgy anime series, the sci-fi fantasy Assassination Classroom and the Toonami-airing action-packed dark fantasy Akame ga Kill!.

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

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during December 2015.

2015 was an eventful year in comics news, with lots of stories capturing our attention.

After declines in Q3 and October, sales of comics and graphic novels via Diamond Comic Distributors moved strongly upward in November, with a nearly 14% jump vs. November 2014.

After a 2.98% decline in the market for comics and graphic novels in comic stores in Q3, the decline continued in October with a 9.55% decline.

Brian Michael Bendis will write a second Iron Man title, International Iron Man.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during August 2015.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during July 2015.

Comic-Con News: In spite of his limited vocabulary, a hirsute 8-foot tall warrior from the planet Kashyyyk known to one and all as “Chewbacca” will get his own comic book series from Marvel.