CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from February 21 to February 27, 2015:

1. Despite the explosion of conventions all over the world and the convention's seemingly unique ability to draw criticism for things that never get applied to other shows, Comic-Con International's show in San Diego is still the E-Ticket ride to end all rides, with near immediate sell-outs and people spending three or so days a year not at the show trying to negotiate the registration and reservations processes.

2. What do you do when a convention loses its hotel? Re-schedule at a different venue, and run a one-day event on the old weekend for anyone that's already made travel plans.

3. The alleged thief behind the robbery of Jim Wheelock's stellar-sounding Silver Age-focused comics collection is arraigned without any further clue as to where the comics might have ended up. I think what might fascinate me as this moves forward is if a thief could have converted a bunch of comics like that into cash in a way that's both completely quiet but also yields enough money for it to be worthwhile.

Winner Of The Week
Whoever thought up this pro-NYC campaign at Marvel just as DC heads out to Burbank. Intentional or not. Not a lot of ways to spin against the energy of a longtime rival starting a new life someplace, but this one of them.

Losers Of The Week
Readers of Paul Constant in The Stranger.

Quote Of The Week
"Even when some people pointed to that article as 'proof' that Image Comics wasn't all it was cracked up to be, Image stuck with me, kept publishing Skullkickers, and continued to make incredible strides in expanding the market for creator-owned comics. I've always been thrilled to have my creator-owned books published by Image because I knew why the company was formed and how it's always worked: Creators are in complete control of their comics and they're compensated based on its success." -- Jim Zub, in his update for how his creator-owned numbers are working out. I might disagree a bit on the characterization of Image's history, but the enthusiasm for his publisher is something a lot of Image's creators have right now and is a big factor in terms of who wants to work where on what kind of project.

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the comic image selected is from the brief but notable 1970s run of Seaboard/Atlas

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