CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from July 27 to August 2, 2013:

1. Sedition charges were dropped against Singaporean cartoonist Leslie Chew. Chew is still under criminal prosecution threat for a bunch of also-dumb lesser charges, but the sedition stuff being dropped is apparently a big deal.

2. Group of family-values concerned South Carolinians make untenable charges against the literary value of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. Luckily, most people on the ground there seem to be seeing their protest as the wholly idiotic sham that it is, although some will be worried that groups like this will be working against books whenever they do so.

3. DC mentions casually that they still officially plan to publish the Orson Scott Card story for Superman that drove people to manic irritation due to Card's vehement, extreme opinions against gays being married.

Winner Of The Week
Kelly Sue DeConnick, helping in the effort to send young women to summer camp.

Loser Of The Week
The Palmetto Family Council, for the very specific brand of nasty politics it plays. I don't mind values-based argumentation, but taking an extreme view under the protection of "well, that's my opinion" and grinding against a college being a place where ideas get shared even if they're not the ideas you like, these are horrible things.

Quote Of The Week
"There is only getting up and doing it all over again, smarter and harder, until something ups and fucking kills you, because that’s the only thing big enough to stop you. This is The Great Work, and all you have to do is choose it, not look back and never fucking stop until you’re in your box, under the dirt and flowers are growing between your teeth." -- Warren Ellis, who would be the greatest high school guidance counselor in the history of the world.

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today's cover is from the all-time series Classics Illustrated

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