A simple update to display the logo for coffee czar, a Pulp Heroes related design project. I don’t know how much actual use this guy will see in or out of comic, but I do know that it’s only 2 colors (3 if you count white) and doesn’t look half bad. Although I am considering making the hand look more like a spiked gauntlet. Coffee Czar, ruling over caffeinated beverages with an iron fist.

I’ve also noticed that my lightbox plugin is no longer working. After downloading the newest version, and making edits to the script as noted in the WordPress codex, it’s still not working. I love that I’m away from my blog for so long each time that I need to spend an extra hour trying to troubleshoot the things that have broken while I’ve been away. I’m not sure if that’s incentive to blog more, or to just not bother.

So Borders Books keeps sending me 40% off DVD boxed set coupons valid for ever-increasing spans of time. I received one on Sunday I think, good until Wednesday, and they sent me a reminder today that the coupon they sent me expired after today, and they gave me another coupon just to be sure. This is probably the third or fourth such coupon I’ve received this holiday season and it’s really starting to feel a little like spam. If I recall correctly they did this deal only twice last christmas, and public response was pretty good. But guys, c’mon, you’re starting to look desperate, which you are. I hear your sales are down millions of dollars compared to 2006, and you need some fresh tactics if you’re going to draw people in. Do you remember the Joker from 1989’s Batman? How long do you think his tactic of swaying the masses by throwing a parade, tossing out stacks of cash into the crowd, only to gas them all to death, would have worked in the long run? Do you think that people would have come back for a second parade? Or a third even? Free money, good wholesome fun, POISON GAS. I see the poison gas as an analog of Borders ridiculously high prices, and those coupons bring box sets merely into Amazon.com range. Borders is effectively poisoning the populous with their lies of fantastic savings. But never fear good citizens, the day will come when Michael Keaton stiffly swoops in, clad in black rubber and drops George Jones off the top of a clock tower.

Happy Holidays!

Editors Note: Can you believe 1989’s Batman won an Oscar?