CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from June 30 to July 6, 2012:

1. The launch of Monkeybrain throws the spotlight on any number of recent efforts from publishers to find a way to make material for on-line serial publication and profit from it. It's not just that launch but the group of them, seemingly all at one; a conversational game-change for this year's SDCC and beyond.

2. Marvel announces a line-wide relaunch of various titles, believed to be their "response" to DC's New 52 initiative but probably just as reasonably characterized as a response to their own anemic recent sales outside of the Avengers Vs. X-Men event.

3. Comic-Con International swells as an organization and cultural event to the point that PR and publishing announcements and general chatter begins more than a week away from its arrival, a sign of just how important comics shows have become to the general culture surrounding the art form.

Winners Of The Week
Your 2012 Harvey Awards Nominees

Loser Of The Week
The major comic book industry awards for not seeing to it that Jaime Hernandez was nominated for something in the year his stories in Love & Rockets: New Edition Vol. 4 was widely acclaimed as perhaps the best work in a long career. That's a strange disconnect there, and not the kind you see as frequently as you used to.

Quote Of The Week
"[Alan Moore] makes two basic arguments, both convincing. The first is that fully realizing the power and value of the Watchmen brand and characters requires leaving them alone. The story is powerful because it is complete, loved because it has integrity, and by now exhausted. Best to leave it all alone: This is an old comic, launched the year Lena Dunham was born, and any energy spent humping its corpse would be better spent on something that might be relevant to someone somewhere." -- Tim Marchman on Before Watchmen

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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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