Part magic (their god is very active in their lives) and part huge pile of natural resources.

I thought their foreign policy was limited to sending lots of spies and parking spaceships off the coast?

I'd quit too! Of course, I have several months of savings in the bank, a husband with a decent paying job who could support us while I'm out of work, and I work in an industry that is not notoriously insular and difficult to break into…

Good news! You only have to read the first 50 issues or so before it gets kind of crummy.

Dehumanizing is a good word for it. As you said, it's meant to invoke the idea that women are a separate species.

I also like Gillen, so I just mentally inserted Sam Humphries' name into the comment.

I read Farel Dalrymple's The Wrenchies which is a weird, convoluted mess of a book. At one point, it features 30+ pages of meandering plot exposition, in the form of a giant grey mechanical man monologuing while the other characters (including a time and space displaced nerd, and actual comic book characters brought…

No sarcasm, I really do enjoy how focused you are on women's' footwear.

#8 is now scheduled for the end of November.

Yup, that's one of the articles I've read. The Outhousers have written about it, too.

Nathan Edmondson is another Marvel writer, though no one will actually come out and say what he's alleged to have done.

Wilkin seems more Anglo-Saxon than Welsh as well. Shouldn't it be Wylllllyn?

Well, I hope he enjoyed my brief grimace, and the fact that I now associate Devo with total assholes, in addition to weird hats.

The terrorists used box cutters to take over the planes, and supposedly murdered some of the flight crew with them. It's really fucking distasteful.

I read volumes 1 and 2 of Brubaker and Epting's Velvet. I enjoyed it, but for some reason I thought it was a limited series, so I was a little thrown when story started spiraling outward instead of wrapping up. I'm probably going to forget everything by the time vol 3 get released.

I really like this theory too, and I'm going to keep both of them in mind when I never watch Signs again.

Signs makes way more sense if you assume the aliens are actually demons from hell. The ending still kind of blows, but at least there's slightly fewer plot holes.

I'm suddenly reminded of an old news story, where an officer was booted out of the military for failing a drug test, and she claimed it was because her husband rubbed cocaine into his penis before having sex.

Oh, me too. I was glad someone else in this thread took the time to go to Wikipedia so I didn't have to.

Also, it was released two years ago, so spoilers are readily available on the internet.