CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from July 30 to August 5, 2011:

1. Reaction to Marvel's win in court over the Kirby heirs late last week leads to calls for a boycott.

2. DC's new corporate infrastructure locking into place. This includes a final, get-together lunch for the WildStorm imprint, which was started as an independent company in 1992 and sold to DC Comics in 1999.

3. Simon Bond, whose 101 Uses For A Dead Cat was perhaps the most popular of a wave of similarly-formatted comic book that paved the way for comics in bookstores today, passed away. Dead Cat spawned sequels, imitators and reformatted versions of the original; it spent several weeks on the bestseller lists and was profiled in People and in Time.

Winner Of The Week
Peanuts

Loser Of The Week
The Renton Police Department

Quote Of The Week
"That is a moral issue here, and Marvel's pattern of decades of effectively slandering, maligning, and dismissing Kirby and his legacy is, too." -- Steve Bissette

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

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