This has been a weird week in comic book news–mostly slow (but with the occasional really big story in the wasteland), following on the heels of a full week of controversy and consternation last week–and then a slow weekend, which has given us time to collect up some of the big stories of the week and share them with our readers as a kid of recap of the week that’s been.Check ’em out below.This week, we spoke with a couple of our favorite creators about their comics that were released on Wednesday; Fred Van Lente talked to us about the end of the “Far Faraway” storyline in Valiant’s Archer & Armstrong, while Terry Moore discussed the latest issue of Rachel Rising.We also spoke with BOOM! Studios CEO Ross Richie about the state of comics; he told us that not only is BOOM! stronger than ever following the acquisition of Archaia but that one of the biggest challenges they face is actually one that fans should be happy with: “There has never been a time in comic book history when there’s been so many good comics and they’re coming from everyone. It’s incredible. I love it as a consumer because I have a big reading stack and it’s a lot of fun,” Richie told us. “But at a core, competitive level, what we have to do is we have to execute better because everybody’s pull list is strained and everybody is looking to drop a title….”
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