* As reported here yesterday, Marvel and DC are both planning to roll prices back on some titles from $3.99 to $2.99. In an early analysis at The Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon says this is likely good news.

* Johanna Draper Carlson describes Top Cow’s plan to give readers a digital download code if they buy a physical issue of Witchblade. I guess it would make some kind of sense if the download was for some other title or issue, but no, you get to download the same issue you just bought. Which is so beside the whole point of digitally downloading comics that it’s astonishing to think anyone will find this “service” attractive, desirable or even worth trying out once for a laugh. Meeting the challenge of publishing comics in an era when almost everything published is available for free download within hours of release: Try again, Top Cow.

* At The Comics Journal, Rob Clough reviews Mome Vol. 19: “Vol. 19…seems to be the issue that best reflects [Eric] Reynolds’ taste as an editor.”

* Hey, it’s Warren Ellis week at MTV.com. Unrelated: Ellis’s recent Supergod and Ignition City are both very good reads. End of endorsement.

* Uncomics: Christopher Allen continues his recent spate of insightful and entertaining music reviews with Duran Duran’s Rio and Blondie’s debut album. On the subject of Rio, d. emerson eddy begs to differ.