The return of Spider Jerusalem!

Warren Ellis invented a DC/Vertigo comic several years ago called Transmetropolitan. I stumbled upon it and was immediately hooked, unfortunately it was well into the series and I had very little hope (or desire) of scrounging up the early issues, so I just went with the flow.

DC/Vertigo just released the first issue as a PDF free download! http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=1719

And if you go up one level on the web site, there's all sorts of first issues available for download...

Transmetropolitan is a very strange comic. Basically take Hunter S. Thompson/Uncle Duke and let him loose on a dystopic near-future. Very crazy stuff. When I started reading the series Spider was carrying a weapon: a bowel disrupter. It had four settings.

Definitely a strange comic.

Pre-made resignation letters

And some very funny actual resignation letters (allegedly) if you scroll down a bit.

http://www.i-resign.com/uk/letters/

Heaven is hotter than hell?

From Wikipedia's entry for sulfur:

"Fire and brimstone

Christian countries often associate sulfur, (in English usually under its ancient name, brimstone) with Hell and divine wrath, mostly due to the phrase "fire and brimstone", which occurs in the Bible in descriptions of Hell and divine punishment. "Fire and brimstone" sermons are those used by some preachers to compel belief by depictions of the horrors of Hell and its punishments. A joke among scientists has used those descriptions of Hell to conclude that, whereas Heaven's temperature would be a scorching 525 degrees Celsius (because it is bathed in a light of the sun... sevenfold as the light of seven days) Hell can be no hotter than the boiling point of brimstone (a mere 444.6 degrees Celsius), and thus cannot be as hot as Heaven. [3]"