Just in time to warm up a very cold January, the best live-action comics comedy on the Web, the Variants, comes out with another Webisode.

"The Heist" Joe accidentally sells a comic from a customer's pull box. Now Joe and Keli have to track down another copy at another store while Richard and Barry handle a comic convention solicitor.

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

This week's question...

A reader writes... Q: A regular reader has submitted some of his New Year dating resolutions for 2010 to help would-be lovers understand more quickly when someone's just not that into you. He had some decent-enough suggestions such as: If it takes more than two hours for someone to return a text, they are not interested. With e-mails, he suggested that if it takes days to get a return e-mail, that's another sign that someone isn't interested in pursuing dating relationship. Some of his other suggestions are: If there is no hand holding on a date, chances are there is no interest. If a good night kiss is not on the lips, forget it. You're a friend. Accept it and move on. If they say they can only meet early and for an hour, then you're not worth it to them. If they ever say, "we can do this as friends," bail quick, you're getting nothing but frustrated. Remember the phrase, "they are letting you know." Because if you see or feel any of these things, be aware, unless you want to be just a friend.

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