Alright, I am still alive. But busy.
But, penny-arcade did their first ever warhammer 40k comic:
Go here:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/05 So that's pretty cool. The conversation is not entirely accurate, but it serves as a good description of one of the reasons war40k is the best universe ever: there's generally no faeries and unicorns type of alliances. Total Galactic War. Many factions. All dark. All brutal. :)