* Kim O'Connor addresses all the ills that Marvel's hiring of Ta-Nehisi Coates doesn't and couldn't ever begin to address. I suspect part of what happens is that we start to see real-world issues as abstract arguments on the Internet pretty early on, and that this distorts the issue in that winning an argument or scoring rhetorical points become more important than substantive improvement or change.
* Heidi MacDonald reports from the Diamond Summit. There's growth, but not enough growth, and Image Comics is going to be the first to back away entirely from the industry's slow suicide by variant.
* Andy Oliver on 
