Creator Matt Furie has killed off Pepe the Frog, the character appropriated by racist fringe groups in the heat of the pre-election season last year.

While the summer box office season kicks into high gear this week, there’s relatively little happening on the home entertainment front save for the release of the latest seasons of Orange Is the New Black , and Inside Amy Schumer , plus a new Blu-ray of the 2012 Simon Pegg horror/comedy A Fantastic Fear of Everything , as well as the first anime feature film ever, a Disney-influenced 74 minute exercise in anthropomorphic propaganda.

This week’s top home entertainment offerings are both animated feature films, Disney’s Pacific Ocean adventure Moana , and the anime feature Miss Hokusai.

For his end-of-the-year column, Bennett looks at the many incarnations of Harley Quinn from around the world.

This week, Bennett talks about trends in animated television, and reviews Justice League Action .

Here's a preview of The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story TP (Expanded Edition ), published by Dark Horse Comics.

This week’s home entertainment releases include one of this past summer’s biggest comedy hits ( Central Intelligence ), a superior shark-attack thriller, a $160-million adaptation of World of Warcraft , and a masterful film by the man who has been chosen to direct the next Thor movie for Marvel Studios.

Comic-Con News: One the eve of the San Diego Comic-Con Dynamite Entertainment announced an agreement with Simon & Schuster to bring the classic teen detectives Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys to comics in an all-new series of illustrated adventures.

This week, Bennett looks at some classic cartoon properties that have been reinvented in new forms.

The first of 2016’s billion dollar movies to come out on disc, a biting Hollywood satire that deserves a better fate than it enjoyed at the box office, another savage and surreal example of grandparenting gone bad, the first collection of The Shannara Chronicles , a high-def edition of the original Roots miniseries, and a superb slate of anime releases.