CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from February 5 to February 11, 2011:

1. Diamond announces a partnership with iVerse for a digital initiative including comics shops that will involve a month-long exclusive to comics shops for digital material by the participating publishers and will require customers wishing to buy that material to go into the comics shop where they will receive a code from the retailer.

2. Stan Lee Media loses bid for Stan Lee's stake in the Marvel Universe. The resuscitated remains of the Internet Era One company had sued Lee saying he had assigned any rights to any characters to the company, so that when Marvel later settled with the writer that this indicated rights to the Marvel character had been Lee's and thus Stan Lee Media's after the assignation. Or something.

3. Several publishers scramble for new Canadian distribution as HB Fenn and Company bankruptcy hits several key North American publishers; a combination of increasing orders to warehouses and initiating discussions with Raincoast believed to be occurring.

Winner Of The Week
This Guy

Loser Of The Week
Stan Lee Media

Quote Of The Week
"Unlike our primitive government, the French legislature actually supports and funds the arts including, evidently, this comic's museum and the festival itself. They dump money at culture the way the United States government supports and funds the spawning of corn and weapons of mass destruction. Although the French have a couple of hundred years on us, there is still time to catch up... but first we must all start smoking again." -- Paul Karasik

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today's cover is from the great comic book series Four-Color

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