Java 412
Hey, this is the first ever view of one of the tables in the coffee shop! A(n) historic event in the ongoing saga that is Java Jaguar. Can’t believe I went through 411 Java strips and never showed a customer seated at a table. Also, Enrique is apparently a big deal at Tangerine (my fictional super-computer company that appears in both Java Jaguar and Kickman, and probably at some point in Real Superheroines).
I’ve often wondered what kind of talent stack I would be able to put together just by tapping all the customers from a coffee shop I worked at. My first day working at Starbucks I said “Hi, Greg!” to a customer that I recognized from my previous job at a high-end sports club in Honolulu. I thought he was an accountant, but he was actually the CFO of Coffee Partners Hawaii which owned all of the Starbucks in Hawaii.
I had a regular named Mark that was a video game designer. I think I gave him an idea for a game he was working on. For about a week, I had ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro come in to the cafe while he was recording an album in the studio that was also in that strip mall. I also had no idea there was a recording studio in that strip mall in the neighborhood that I lived in for like 30 years. You just never know who you know.
This Java Jaguar strip was uploaded on Tuesday from Scotland. By the time this goes live, I should be back in California getting ready to begin a Husky sit in Newbury Park. So, it looks like I was able to keep up with my one-a-day release schedule even while traveling. Yay, me!
Java’s recruiting technique is certainly, er, unique, but it worked.
He knows how to entice a nerd. Look at how he got Matt to go on that death-trap quest by promising him a replica of Gandalf’s staff. Gamer nerd and computer nerd of course have different carrots to dangle.
Enrique looks like he died on the inside in this page.
Oh. I was going for a “stunned revelation with an underlying sense of trepidation that he will soon fulfill his life-long dream” look.