Do you watch CSPAN? You should. Ignore all the politics and just watch it to see how uncomfortable Stephen Colbert makes the audience and how unamused the President looks. That's good theatre.

But on to more important things. We have readers with questions. Questions that I'll now answer.

We're still very much alive but a sad thing has happened. Our office burned down. There's now a smoldering pile of bricks and shattered dreams where once stood our monument to gross depravity. Granted, we hadn't bought it yet. Boy, wouldn't it haven't been embarrassing to have one's office burn down before even publishing an issue? But we were totally going to get it as soon as we could afford to kick the nuns out. What are the chances we'll be able to find a second office with gargoyles, stained glass, and an underground tomb for holding meetings?

We're going to follow Blizzard's philosophy on release dates for the first issue: It'll be released when it's done. Of course after that we'll just slap something together every other month.

Here's a glimpse of what the first issue will look like (click for bigness):

It's the first page of James Turner's two page Beaver and Steve comic; the first page of Ryan Estrada's three page Plague! comic; and the first page of Lemuel "Hot Soup" Pew & Matthew Kuzma's five page Lethal Doses comic.

We're going to be running another contest soon. But I won't say much about it yet because I'll feel like a deadbeat dad who promises to come to your birthday next week, but doesn't, and has to show up with a pony six months later to make up for it.

Finally, I'm a word nerd — I'm an editor so that comes with the territory. But I only nitpick when I'm editing text. Generally, I wouldn't notice, let alone correct, someone's speech. But there is one phrase that makes me cringe whenever I hear it. I was watching the show House, and in one episode Foreman suggested transverse myelitis as a diagnosis. House replied, "But that begs the question, what caused the transverse myelitis?" Oh House, you arrogant bastard, the people who write your lines apparently don't know what begging the question means.

Begging the question is a logical fallacy. If I say: "Only a rich insecure prick would buy a Hummer. Rich insecure pricks buy Hummers. Therefore, I'm right." I'm assuming the second premise to prove the first premise. The way House used it, he meant, "that raises the question".

My problem is not that one use is more correct than another. Language evolves and it's futile to fight against the change. But if you use a phrase that's originally intended for discussions of logic when all you want to say is "that leads us to another problem", it only makes you sound pretentious.