CR Week In Review

Top Stories
The week's most important comics-related news stories, December 4 to December 10, 2004:

1. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund announces it's challenging the U.S. Customs Department holding comics from the collective Stripburger based on their being piratical in nature, a charge the Fund, publishers, and at least one of the creators strongly protests, stating these are clear parodies.

2. News hits the comics industry and comic book fan communities about the passing of writer Bob Haney on Thanksgiving.

3. County commissioners speak out against a political cartoon, another small sign of the increasing public impatience with political expression via the comics medium.

Winner of the Week
Claude Cyr, who gained worldwide feature article saturation by tying his notion that growth-hormone deficiency is linked to hypogonadotropic hypogonadism to the ever-youthful Tintin and his constant head traumas. If medicine doesn't work out, he might try the publicity field.

Losers of the Week
The U.S. Customs department for their shamefully broad and idiotic use of the notion of piratical materials in holding the aforementioned publications.

Quote of the Week
"That's my favorite part of buying comics, the long division." -- Abhay Khosla in the comments section in a Fanboy Rampage post about an article where a writer tries to justify the price of his forthcoming line on a price per page basis.
 
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