* Frank Santoro is the best comics-related travel blogger right now by maybe a wide margin, and he should be encouraged in these endeavors as much as is humanly possible. Speaking of TCJ, I like how all over the place the Michael DeForge diary entries were. Here and here are the final two.
* a first look at the May Direct Market numbers indicates that DC Comics lost market share in a month they debuted their summer crossover event.
* a few Marvel folks talk about the X-Men storyline "Schism." I always thought Wolverine was a tough-sell as a leader-figure in the comics because he'd occasionally strip down naked and run with the wolves or something, coming home covered in blood and Dr. Pepper and sentinel oil, activities that are rarely inspiring in someone from whom you're taking orders.
* this live presentation from Geoff Johns and Jim Lee ostensibly about the Superman part of the DC comics re-launch featured a modest number of media/branding buzzwords but not a lot of content on which it would occur to me to make commentary, I'm afraid.
* I'm not sure I know exactly the point of 
