Java 364
on July 11, 2024
at 5:00 am
Doom! Doom is coming for Java!
Happy 7-11 Day! Be sure to get your free Slurpee from your local 7-Eleven store if you have one.
I’m sure that cloaked figure crossing South America will see one soon, right next to the Morebucks Coffee in the middle of that jungle.
Have I spent enough time foreshadowing the upcoming battle? Maybe ten… fifteen more pages of this before he crosses swords with Java?
I everyone be sure to thank Prairie Son for single-handedly saving this week’s Java Jaguar strip. As of Monday there were no comments and I was preparing to skip this strip and have Java just cry for three panels. But thanks to Prairie Son, you all get to enjoy this week’s strip. 3 Kick Points for Prairie Son.
Matt, there are lots of things you can do to engage readers. If there’s no comments there’s a better way. You haven’t done a mailbag in a while, you could do Java themed trivia for Kick Points. Votes on your favourite Java character – or your leas favourite. Stop crying. It’s all about dat fanbase.
You mean making readers feel guilty doesn’t work..? huh. I’m going to slap that marketing rep I hired on Fiverr.
Please, no beat me mastah
Fun fact time – Piranhas are peaceful fish that will swim quite placidly with careful swimmers. Their frenzy is induced by slapping the water with a flat object, and is not their ground state of being. No-one knows why they developed the frenzy reflex, theories centre around them needing it to defend against some ancient extinct predator that we no longer have a record of. None of which would save them from this hooded and cowled implacable man figure, who clearly has a driving goal of finding Java.
I did a quick search to see if there were any recent piranha attacks and came across this headline: “Man Eaten by Piranhas After Jumping in Lake to Flee From Bees.” Talk about a bad day.
It’s a big splash in the water that induces frenzy so that tracks. Piranhas don’t feed terribly well from frenzy and can even injure themselves from it so it’s clearly a defensive mechanism of some kind. No-one knows why they frenzy due to big splashes, which suggests whatever was attacking them either adapted to leave them alone or went extinct.
Killer bees also can live peaceably, *if* they are left unagitated. But if one killer bee is dead or frightened they become agitated.
Fire ants! They have a nasty sting and attract to electrical signals. They are bad news.
Humans like to think we are the ‘point’ of evolution, but there are a lot of species that don’t rely on us and would consider *us* a kind of pest. Generally speaking the more a species has the power to harm us, the more important it is to show that species respect; the more other species are useful to us, the more important it is to protect them; the more species share with us without cost – like birds nesting in our roofs! – the more important it is to share gratitude.
But everyone knows a certain British Wizard is a Druid as well. I’m expected to have to know this stuff. 🙂
Yup. I live in a chunk of the world notable for both nasty poisonous reptiles equipped with their own Back the F*** Off Jack signal and cranky cow cousins people insist on treating like bushes that won’t mind you getting in their personal space. Stupid tourists are a regular item in the news.
If it’s not your animal, leave it alone.