Valiant Entertainment announced its new “The Future of Valiant” initiative which includes ongoing series, miniseries, and standalone events encompassing seven series.

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

Greg Leeds has resigned as CEO of Hasbro division Wizards of the Coast, the company announced today, and will be replaced by former Microsoft executive Chris Cocks.

Cinemax has put The Boys , based on the comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, into development.

The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman’s LLC has filed for summary judgment to block an attempt to open a Walking Dead health food restaurant in New Jersey.

In Part 2 of our two part interview, we talk about piracy, the impact of streaming, the growing Hollywood pipeline, and Dark Horse’s 2016 releases.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include one of the best boxing movies in years, Oscar contenders, The Danish Girl and Room , plus the excellent Cold War drama The Americans , the underrated crime drama Legend , as well as the long-awaited Blu-ray debut of the Death Note anime and the return of the long out-of-print Zeta Gundam series.

Battle for Zendikar “had the strongest start to a set in the brand’s history,”

2016 is off to a pretty good start in the home entertainment realm with the release of the powerful drug war saga Sicario , Robert Zemeckis’ underrated The Walk , the second season of HBO’s groundbreaking True Detective , and the 1995 UPN science fiction/western saga Legend , which is one of the most requested series that has heretofore never appeared on disc.

This week Bennett skips the column, and just does the digressions, on Jughead , Bazooka Joe, and Lucifer.