It's a reference to a deleted scene, where Russo tracks down a bad guy hideout; she realizes that it's a bad guy hideout because it's supposed to be a lingerie shop, but it doesn't have a front window to show off the goods.

If you check the Wikipedia entry for the book, it notes that it's probable that an asteroid or a comet hit the Earth, causing an extinction-level event.

"Purple lightning, that's always a good sign."

Den…fall…police?

I'm guessing that the alien is able to eat, and metabolize, metal - which basically means that the Nostromo is essentially a gigantic buffet to it.

Bite your tongue. Nobody can out-hot Julie Sawahla.

As I'm to understand it, the whole Samara thing ties into Japanese folklore/mythology - apparently she's possessed by a water goblin, or something along those lines. It's a perfectly recognizable allusion to a Japanese audience, comes across as totally opaque to an American one.

Cockroach caviar, I believe, and the guy is Trevor Goodchilde.

I always appreciate Jesus more when he's rammed up my ass with a chimney sweep's brush.

My Kindle version - for my iPhone - has full-page illustrations for the images that Grant describes. Like Rowan says, mostly splash pages and covers.

I gotta concur. I finally /ragequit The Boys after the last issue, when I realized that Ennis only had one point to make - superheroes are awful - and was going to be making it as obnoxiously as he could over as many issues as he could get away with. Pat Mills made the same point in Marshal Law in six issues.

I like Rabin's work.

Uh…
What the fuck is this shit?

Or a section of electronic music from "Logan's Run".

The song for "Naked Lunch" is a portion of "Gravity's Rainbow", by Laurie Anderson, in case anybody's wondering.

"Add rider" has a number of meanings - Veidt's mention of the calvary riding in when he's talking about the overall fate of humanity, the two riders - Rorscach and Nite Owl - approaching Ozymandias' fortress, and I think that Adrian Veidt _might_ mention a fifth horseman being nuclear apocalypse, but don't have the…

I just spend the last half-hour trying to find the name of the music that they used for the trailer, because yeah, it is that good. It's either the main soundtrack 0r a selection from Isao Tomita's keyboard/synth version of "The Planets".

Just go buy another box full of books and you're set for another five years. And I agree - this has been a remarkable column, and I've enjoyed it.

It's not that humanity couldn't win against the Covenant. On the ground, we did fine against them, but their spaceships were vastly superior to ours; we would win the ground battle, then the Covenant would glass the place from orbit.

Nobody else is going to do it?
Fine, I'll do it: