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Not hate, but some interrogations of your argument:

Take God out of the picture and as far as I'm concerned you're no longer even talking about marriage.

Which God? Does that preclude non-Christians from getting married? Hindus? Muslims? Atheists?

research has shown that a two-parent household typically is better for the development of the children.

How many parents do you think there are in a household where two gay people have been married?

So it seems to me that the issue of gay marriage is not only about equal civil rights, but perhaps they want something more than equality...?

Are you implying here that gay people are fighting this fight for tax breaks? Are you married yourself? Because I am, and I'll tell you that on my wedding day, tax breaks were not anywhere near what I was thinking about.

My impression is that many conservatives are simply not seriously aware of the various and numerous problems faced by committed gay couples who're not allowed to marry.

My issue with this would be that he knows enough about it to acknowledge that the situation is a talking point and concern, but chooses not to learn or hear more about these serious problems because then they'd not be so easily dismissible. That's willful ignorance in my estimation.

I have missed your kind words until now, Sunny Penguin! We didn't find out about the band until production was well, well under way on the comic, which was unfortunate for us when it came time to choose a domain name!

We worked really hard to make our campaign as transparent as possible, at least at the start. Things have blown up legitimately more than we anticipated, and so some costs are up in the air right now. We know that shipping is going to take up a majority of our funding at this point, but we won't know exactly how much until we get results back on where our backers live in the world. That's the most difficult area of Kickstarter, negotiating shipping costs.

Let us know when your comic is done!

I was mostly just pissy to see the alien remains come to life

I was pissed at that movie starting with the scene where they behead the statue of Denholm Elliott and everyone in the movie theater laughed. I was downright furious at everyone involved but Ray Winstone by the end.

Indeed! Happy birthday to Nelly!

I was just saying the other day that there should be an external site that was a schedule of forthcoming Kickstarters. It would be easier to plan both your budget as a backer, and release dates as a campaign runner.

The Corsican Brothers?

I agree with Anian that her head might be a bit too narrow in the front. I also might in the side view, if this is a resting pose, move her head back a little so the weight of it is over her shoulders more.

The issue of her torso looking long might be complicated by the fact that her actual waist is obscured by the jacket and the long shirt.

Isn't it amazingly ironic and funny with regard to the finale of Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls?

I don't want to defend Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a movie that disappointed me so much that I shoved over a cardboard stand-up of Harrison Ford on my way out of the movie theater, but...

I think this rule is in keeping with previous uses. The Ark of the Covenant, lingam stones, the Holy Grail are all real-or-rumored-to-be artifacts that have higher supernatural functions in the world of Indy. Crystal Skulls were also artifacts, though they're younger than originally believed. Erich Von Daniken-style aliens are not much harder for me to believe than the Holy Spirit slaying Nazis, hearts being pulled still beating from chests, or Templar knights who are centuries old. It's less the idea in KotCS than it is the execution, or lack thereof. What a horrible movie. UGH!

I could go on forever about Beligan-French comics

Please do! I'm happy to have such a thread with my name on it. Are there other comics you'd suggest that are more straightforward adventure? I'm also a big fan of Pierre Alary.

By the way, the logo is meant to stay at that low resolution

Speaking from experience, even if the original intended usage is low-res, you'll be doing yourself a favor by creating the logo as a vector file that can be rescaled. Otherwise, six months from now, someone is going to want a t-shirt, and you're going to have to remake the whole thing from scratch.

Bluecoats is actually available in English from Cinebook!

Are UK-based Kickstarters not done through Amazon as well? I'm going to be backing this ASAP. Loved the first game, and the second one looks lovely. I'll see about steering some attention from my current KS campaign to you as well sometime during the next few weeks!

Hold on a sec. That guy I already know...!

Holy crap, is that Robert Patrick in the picture? I've never seen From Dusk 'Til Dawn, and it would be super weird if I somehow recognized him from his sleeve. My super-power is identifying obscure photos of Robert Patrick.

Difference being that "segue" actually is read same as "segway", while "queue" is basically read "q"

(I was kidding!)

[Spirou]

Thank you, Snarky! That's quite the education you've provided. I either forgot or didn't know that Cinebook was putting out Spirou books -- I've been buying Blake & Mortimer and Lucky Luke from them (and I'll probably eventually get XIII and a few others). I hold Thorgal and Blueberry in very high regard, but I think I have the idea in my head that Tintin, Asterix, Luke and Spirou are sort of like European equivalents of Mickey Mouse, the household names that everyone knows and has read. I don't even know Gaston Lagaffe! And I think maybe Donald Duck has a popularity in Europe that he doesn't over here (aside from Carl Barks fans like me).

I am desperate for more BD to be published in English. I've gotten a copy of Rosetta Stone for French specifically so I can read more Euro-comics, but I'm afraid after several false starts that I might be too old to learn another language. When I go to Montreal, I always pick up something from PlaneteBD (my most recent purchase was a volume of Esteban by Matthieu Bonhomme), but all I can do is look at the pictures. Thank gosh for Cinebook, Fantagraphics (who are printing Tardi), First Second (who are doing the works of Christophe Blaine, one of my new favorites), and...I hate to say it...scanlators who are filling the gaps for me in the meantime.

In the meantime may turn to that illicit method to find Il y a un sorcier à  Champignac. And maybe soon, Cinebook will find a way to go back to the old catalog and I won't have to be such a pirate. Thanks again, Snarky!

Spirou is the one of the big four Franco-Belgian BDs (I might be wrong, but based on my readings, I'd consider the major ones Tintin, Asterix, Lucky Luke & Spirou) that I've not gotten into, mostly because it hasn't been translated as much as the others. Where should one start with the Spirou series? What makes it your favorite?

(Moderator note: Split off from this topic in order to keep that thread adventure game-related.)

Annoyingly, it doesn't work if there's just a background and no layers.

Thank you for making me feel like I'm not the only one who goes crazy over this.

On the few occasions when I heard someone say the word 'segue' I would always imagine it to be written as 'segway'.

Following this line of thought, I always assume that British people are lining up in a que-way.

I favor the soft G myself, because it makes sense phonetically. We drink jin, work out at the jym, covet jems, like the cut of peoples' jibs, wear jel in our hair. I think you get the jist. When followed by e, i, or y, G usually takes on the J sound.

And we do pronounce acronyms phonetically. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not Gnat-oh, it's Nate-oh. Or, really, it's Nay-Toe. We don't pronounce a short-A in laser, radar, nor sonar.

In short, all of you are wrong.