CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from June 2 to June 8, 2012:

1. Four men were convicted in Denmark and sentenced to a dozen years in jail each for charges related to planning a Mumbai-style terrorist attack centered on the Jyllands-Posten newspaper offices, from where the Danish Cartoons Controversy was spawned.

2. The lawsuit between new-era Archie co-CEOs ends with not a lot being released as to what this means and a potential second lawsuit on the horizon based on misuse of funds. If there were any possible way to write a clever sentence on the cliched idea of there being more drama at Archie than in the halls of Riverdale High, this would be the place that sentence would go.

3. DC launches its Before Watchmen titles to significant if not overwhelming customer anticipation and at best a very, very minor questioning of these comics' propriety. The prequel's debut comes as DC is in the midst of a surge in DM trade orders for the first books coming out of their New 52 initiative, a launch that may be far more important than any event series when the year-end results are tallied.

Winner Of The Week
DC Comics

Loser Of The Week
Alan Moore

Quote Of The Week
"They should adapt this storyline into a movie starring Shaq and Tom Cruise." -- Commenter on a message board thread about a Hulk/Punisher storyline that mirrors the movie Crank. It may be super-weird and funny to think of such a movie; it's also something that's not inconceivable.

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today's cover is from the small-press and independent comics scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s

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