* not comics: Black Panthercrosses $1B at worldwide box office. This should surprise no one. One hopes this will keep a very appealing set of characters in a position of some sort of prominence within the company's publishing efforts, but that doesn't always work out just because it should.
* finally, Jeffrey Brown digs into Steve Breen's work on homelessness in the San Diego area through the humanization of those that fall under this category.