* Michael May takes a look at Vertigo's general sales performance according to the rough measures available, in response to inferred criticism of the imprint in recent media coverage.
* not comics: Alyssa Rosenberg writes about one way to break into professional writing: write a lot of material for free until (hopefully) your talent developments and you start getting paid gigs. I think that's a useful set of ideas -- CR went a full year before it sought advertisers, which if nothing else let potential ad-buyers know what they were in for content-wise -- although if it's presented as a prescriptive even by people just linking into the piece there are likely to be some objections, even super-snarky ones.
* RM Rhodes writes about where a comics fan might guy if they find themselves in Brussels.
* Matt Kubinski talks to Jim Terry. Some nice person named "Needles" profiles Tom Sutton.
* so I guess something horrible happened to Catwoman in one of the DC comic book, forcing fans to scramble in two directions: that it's awful if it happened, and it's awful if it's a fake-out. Grame McMillan takes a peek at some of the ideas being floated about when death is sold as a plot point.
* Joe Gordon on 
