"Central" booking: Newsarama brings us "Up to Date" with the comic more people should be reading, "Gotham Central."

Series co-writer Ed Brubaker talks about the current "Soft Targets" storyline, and dashes the hopes of hackish would-be writers everywhere:

"Let me just level with you for the record. No one at DC will ever kill the Joker. The only place he dies is in 'Dark Knight.' If someone tells you the Joker is going to die in a comic, it's just hype."

He also gives some hints about upcoming arcs:

"After this arc, we've got three issues focusing on some of the other partner teams, real character stuff to highlight the fallout from this arc, and to get to know some of the other cast members a little better, which is something that fans have been asking for for a while now.

"And after those, I'm doing my next big solo arc that will deal with a bunch of different aspects, one of them being Harvey Bullock and what he's been doing since retirement. He's a long term character that fans have been screaming to see again, so who knows, maybe I'll kill him?"