Courting Disaster

Courting Disaster, my weekly comic about sex, love, and relationships updates every Friday. You'll laugh your pants off. This week's question:

My wife and I have a great relationship, but we keep fighting about the same thing balancing our budget. She wants to spend in areas I think uneccessary, like on a cleaning lady and laundry services. I think we should do this stuff ourselves and save the money, but she says that means she just gets stuck with the work. We both contribute equally to the household budget. What should we do?

The New Schlock Storefront

Howard has set up a new storefront for Schlock books.

Before they can open pre-orders for Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between they need to run several more transactions through it — not just to test the basic store functionality and merchant account stuff (they know that works), but to test and refine processes on their end. You know, taking the receipts handed to them by the store and turning out shipping labels.

So… here’s the deal. For a limited time (call it “from now until sometime Monday�) they will be selling signed copies of Schlock Mercenary: Under New Management (the FIRST book, not the new one) for just $10 + shipping. They would love for you to help them test the store by buying a book (or two!). Maybe you could even apply some of your savings towards a more expensive shipping method, in order to further help them.

Assuming things go well, pre-orders for Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between will open on Tuesday, October 10th. Sketch editions will be pre-orderable as well, from 10am Eastern Time on the 10th until 10am Eastern Time on the 11th.

If things DON’T go well with our testing, they’ll postpone pre-orders for a week or so while they iron out the wrinkles, straighten the kinks, flatten the speed-bumps, and un-hitch the hitches. Watch his site for details.

Watchmen movie update

Zack Snyder has announced news of another step towards a Watchmen movie:

[EMPIRE ONLINE] "We're getting ready to turn a script that we like into this studio," says Snyder. "They're pretty excited about it…I think the script that Alex [Tse] has done for us is the closest to the graphic novel it's been [since development started], for better or for worse. I feel like Alex has done an awesome job. It's keeping all the things that are cool about the comic".

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