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Everyday Drabbles #1092: First Coffee

October 13, 2024

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The legends said that monks first learned to brew coffee from a goat. Suspicious, a powerful wizard scried back in time to learn the truth of the matter.
Eventually he found the event and was surprised to find the legends were accurate. He saw the goat eat the fallen fruit and the learned men observing its reaction. Then he saw the creature slink off and transform into a dragon.
The Wizard decided to abandon his research. If the dragons wanted humanity to drink coffee, they probably had a good reason, and only a fool meddled with dragons and their politics.

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Everyday Drabbles #1061: Mourning Coffee

September 12, 2024

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In the bleary light of rain-soaked dawn, I yawn and trudge into an unfamiliar kitchen. I don’t really remember much of the night before, but I wouldn’t have these holes in my memory if it hadn’t been a good time.
What I need now is coffee. The stronger, the better, to really feel alive. I find the machine. It’s a beautiful, high-end gleaming steel monstrosity that takes up most of the counter.
But when I open the pantry, it’s filled with row upon row of cans, the word ‘decaffeinated’ printed in bright red letters. Somewhere, I hear a demonic laugh…

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Hugh Likes Comics: Helena Crash

March 29, 2017

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Helena Crash #1
Written by Fabian Rangel Jr.
Drawn by Warwick Johnson Cadwell
Published by IDW
Helena Crash
In the future, coffee is illegal. Highly skilled courier Helena Crash has the goods, but will a delivery to Rojo, the city’s second most powerful mob boss, cost her her life?
Helena Crash is a weird and wonderful Sci-Fi adventure comic for fans of Samurai Jack and Tank Girl. It’s a fast and breezy look into a smog-choked future filled with delightfully designed robots and mutants. Building this grim pulp future with coffee as the macguffin is a brilliant choice for an all-ages take on the sub-genre.
Rangel’s script is spot on and does just enough to let the art do the talking. Cadwell’s style is sketchy and has the perfect middle-school-notebook tone to match the action. The designs are all real winners, from a mutant punk with a blowfish for a head, to Rojo’s wolfman bodyguard. There’s always something cool to look at on the page.
Helena Crash has zoomed her way into my heart. You can find her in your local comics shop or on Comixology.

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