Java 439
Whoops. Forgot to draw a Java strip yesterday, so I did this one super quick and posted it on the same day. See, only about five hours late. Bad for an airline, but not too bad for a weekly web comic.
Speaking of web comics, I think I’ll do another round of answering fan questions, except this time I’d like to open it up to any character in the strip. Anyone want to send a fan letter and ask a question for Matt? Or Dingo Jack? Or Gayle? Or Tim? Or Enrique? Heck, we could bring Rafael back. Coffee Commander? Coffee Sasquatch? The owner’s niece that works at the Bikini Barista Bar? The Prosperity Cat on top of the pastry bar? All characters are fair game.
Drop questions in the comments. If I pick one of yours I’ll award 5 Kick Points. Be sure to include the city you are writing from so I can say, “So-and-so from Tulsa, Oklahoma asks…”
Also, it looks like Grok Imagine may have stopped allowing free video generation. Or the site is just glitching right now. When I tried to make an animated ending for this strip, something along the lines of “Ignore speech bubbles. Zoom in on last panel. The talking jaguar cub says some profound piece of human wisdom followed by a few musical notes like from an after school special.” It opens a pop-up to sign up for the Pro version. I can click out of the pop-up and the video starts generating, but it freezes at 75%. We’ll see if it is up and running later… in the meantime, all I have is this mundane time lapse video of me taking huge shortcuts to produce this strip…



Golden Sphinx has a nice feather duster on his back.
I am shocked–shocked I say–that the science has not come up with little drone dusters yet. They just fly around in a pattern like a Roomba, just with one extra dimension, and have little swirly dusters. Sure, all that dust ends up on the ground… but that’s what the Roomba is for!
How about a ‘where are they now’ series on characters that haven’t made an appearance in a while?
Q for Matt: I usually get a mocha as an Friday treat, but my local coffee shop has a new barista who can’t make a mocha to save their life. Any ideas?
So is “Golden Feather Duster” officially a Minion now?
Coffee Commander: Where’d you get that sweet mask!
Whoops, sorry, I’m in Sitka, Alaska rn. And the Grok thing might be permeant. Iirc a different American video AI service stopped as well. Maybe Chinese AI as an alternative? Duuno