CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from October 1 to October 7, 2011:

1. The Michael George Re-Trial ends and is in the hands of its jury. George, five years ago a popular Western Pennsylvania retailer and convention organizer, was being tried once again for the 1990 murder of his then-wife in their Michigan comics shop. A set of 2008 convictions on crimes related to the action was set aside by the judge due to malfeasance by the prosecutor in sharing information.

2. Barnes & Noble pushes back against DC's exclusive deal with the next Kindle device. While the most common reaction seen in comics seems to be making fun of B&N for pulling books and driving their customers even further into Amazon or towards Direct Market stores, I have to think this isn't about DC at all but about other publishers signing exclusives with Amazon.com. While DC is basically giving that new Kindle popular back-stock items, and therefore being pulled from the B&N stores isn't all that big a deal (although nothing you'd choose were there an option), publishers that may be thinking about signing deals with Amazon with new books would likely feel a more significant sting at losing that bookshelf space during an initial launch.

3. Chicago-area small press and backstock specialist distribution company Haven Distributors is shutting down. They came into existence in 2008 after basically buying the popular Cold Cut and its accounts. In many ways, this can be seen as the final event in the 1990s Distributor Wars, where Marvel insanely deciding to distribute itself through Heroes World led to a number of industry-changing and I'd argue short-sighted decisions that made Diamond the Direct Market's dominant distributor by a wide, wide margin.

Winner Of The Week
Katie Longua

Loser Of The Week
An Artistic And Art Entrepreneur Middle Class

Quote Of The Week
"We are disappointed that Barnes & Noble has made the decision to remove these books off their shelves and make them unavailable to their customers." -- Unnamed DC spokesperson.

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

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