Comic Book Week in Review for 10/14/07 - 10/20/07

Another week over and there's a lot you might have missed here at the Weekly Crisis - Comic Book Review Blog and around the comic book world. Check out this Comic Book Week in Review for all the happenings of the past week.

New Site Layout for The Weekly Crisis

First on the agenda, how do you like the new site layout? I spent a fair bit of time on my test blog working on the dimensions and creating the rounded edges for all the borders as well as making sure all the old articles still looked correct with the new layout. If you're having any issues with the new site - whether loading problems or dead links or what have you - feel free to let me know through email or drop a comment in any of the various postings. And if you feel like sharing any compliments or critiques on things I can do to improve the site, those are welcome as well.

GLC Mongul Preview

In other news, I'd like to point you to the newest Green Lantern Corps #20 cover that I saw over at The Comic Rack, featuring Mongul. You can see the crappy, unfinished Newsarama version by clicking here. However, I want to show you the finished version, which you can see above, from artist Patrick Gleason's personal blog, The Straight Poop.

Tigra vs The Hood & "Women in Fridges"

Next up, I suppose the big overreaction to the Tigra beatdown by The Hood from over 2 weeks ago needs addressing. Apparently, Brian Bendis had to be interviewed by Newsarama to straighten this whole fiasco out, which you can read all about here.

I expressed my opinion on it in this week's Weekly Crisis reviews during the JLA #14 review. JLAer, Geo-Force, suffered through a similar string of events, including a filming of his beatdown for later viewing, and was nearly killed and eaten by Gorilla Grodd. Almost no reaction from readers led to my discussion with Weekly Crisis reader Pete in the comments of my review. You can read those and join in on the debate by clicking here.

While I agree with most of the "Women in Fridges" debates, this Tigra crusade they've all raised the war banners over has gotten blown way out of proportion and I think people need to step back and view it as the superhero fight to put over the villain that it was. There was no gender assassination here, no rape, no pointless death. The complete lack of outcry over Geo-Force's similar situation just goes to show that it is a small, vocal minority that has stirred up this hornet's nest of false proclaimation.

30 Days of Night

Finally, a new comic book movie debuted this week with 30 Days of Night. I'm sure everyone's heard all about it already and knows the basic "vampires head to the artic town of Barrows where there's 30 days of night due to how far north it is" premise. It's odd, since the arctic area they describe typically sees upwards of 60 days, but it's a movie / comic book and the title and premise wouldn't have been as thrilling with "50-60+ Days of Night". You can read several reviews of the movie around the net. Here's a few quick links for any who missed out.

• Newsarama
• Yahoo! News Entertainment
• IGN Movies

Personally, I thought it was a decent adaption of the comic book, which was an adaption of Niles' failed screenplay which, ironically, lead to the current movie. I guess it's true that you fail upwards in Hollywood. If you like vampires or "scary" movies, there are far worse films you could see than 30 Days of Night. I didn't care for the actual comic book series when it came out, but the movie did manage to entertain. I'd typically wait for a DVD release with a horror film, but seeing as it was a comic book movie, I felt the need to go see it in theatre.

Now, let's get on with what happened here at the Weekly Crisis.

Next up, this week saw the return of the Comic Book Crisis of Faith Reviews with an article featuring Warren Ellis' Thunderbolts, "Faith in Monsters". If you've been here for a while, you'll remember the older Grant Morrison's Batman, Blue Beetle or Immortal Iron Fist Crisis of Faith articles. However, I'd like to point out that I've overhauled the CoF format so that it is more streamlined and focused along with even more scans and images from the actual comic!

While I just posted it today, I want to make sure you don't miss this week's Comic Book Character Spotlight featuring Jaime Reyes, the Blue Beetle! He's one of my favourite new characters and his book is easily one of the best coming out of DC today. With a new membership with the Teen Titans and cameos in Booster Gold, Blue Beetle is a book you should be reading and this character spotlight hopes to give you a little primer and insight into the character.

As always, if you missed this week's reviews, make sure to check them out in the Weekly Crisis Comic Book Reviews. I also introduced a new bullet point-style set of reviews for all the comics I didn't have time to do full reviews on in this week's debut Weekly Crisis Quick Shot Comic Book Reviews. I couldn't think of a decent name to describe the new, shorter and concise reviews, so if you can think of something better, feel free to comment below.

And finally, how could I possibly forget to remind you to check out this week's Comic Book Moments of the Week? One of my most popular features, this week's edition featured some great moments, such as Hank Pym's Commodore 64 line in Mighty Avengers or Bluebeard's untimely demise at the claws and fangs of Shere Khan in Fables.

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