D.J. Coffman - Sequential Artist, Thinker

The beauty of BEFORE COFFEE is that it sometimes is, just that. Where I’m a bit cranky in the mornings and my true feelings come out. Things I may have been biting my tongue about, just come spewing out… But I generally keep biting if it’s important to my livelihood.

- You know what’s been annoying me FOREVER, and this morning especially? Drunk Duck. We’ve been number 1 on their ever since Free Comic Book day, and I direct a TON of people there, or to herobynight.com — but then I had this kid do a book report on Hero By Night, and the teacher told me he wasn’t sure if he could send the kids to “my site” because of the content on Drunk Duck. — They pointed out some of the sexual comics there– even in the “top 10″ right now there’s a comic with big boobed furry chicks pressing boobs and it says so in the description…. and it’s not that I’m for censorship or anything like that– have a field day!– But they also mention the name “Drunk Duck”—  that crowd doesn’t want their kids visiting a site called DRUNK anything. — but there it is boldly across the top of my header every day… and I’m starting to ask, why? — Well we only hosted Hero By Night there because it fell into the same time that Platinum Studios has acquired them, so it made sense to co-brand– but I can’t shake off the feeling that we could have done much better ad sales wise, merch wise, pageview wise, out on our own—  Instead I get the comments like I mentioned here– and I get them OFTEN. — I bite my tongue usually because I frankly like all the people who run Drunk Duck and I don’t want to criticize it. But it’s just god awful branding and design and marketing… — I’ve also always said– why not, in some of that dead space under the fold, show the latest comic books for sale, with a direct buy link or… or this… or that… but it’s a lost cause to even bring that crap up. I’m not sure what it’s actually accomplishing now. I’m not sure that i really care anymore either. I might just put it all back on it’s own domain to do what’s best for HBN.

- WEATHER WARS! - The following is possibly fictional paranoia , but something you should consider. Have you noticed the back and forth between severe weather here in the USA and over in China? Fires and tornadoes here, cyclones and earthquakes there. It’s almost seemed like back and forth the past couple weeks, with death tolls mounting. The WEATHER is the perfect WEAPON. Why? Because nobody believes that you CAN control it. Walk outside and say that the government controls the weather and people will say you’re crazy. If you’re a government and say that another country is hitting you with cyclones, they’ll think the whole country is crazy. But it’s true– they can do it.  Those that believe “Only god can control the weather” — should ask themselves why the United Nations, way back in 1978 had a signed treaty regarding Weather Control Weapons– the cover letter wrote:

“CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF MILITARY OR ANY OTHER HOSTILE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES APPROVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS ON 10 DECEMBER 1976″

My friends though, still think I’m just an insane conspiracy theorist. They must ignore headlines like “CHINA TO USE WEATHER CONTROL AT OLYMPICS”

And it’s been quietly working. If you take a look at the economic problems caused by the longterm “drought” in the USA, crops being destroyed, Hurricanes nearly wiping out the entire gulf coast– all done quietly. — And notice the weakness of the US dollar, and articles about how the growth of our dollar will be decided by Riyadh and Beijing

Anyways– I’ve been reading “between the lines” a lot lately. It’s the only way you can get to the TRUTH.

The weather outside here is dreary. My grass is growing at an uncomfortable rate and needs mowed. I believe this to be the work of mad scientists in the South Pacific, intent on annoying me with physical labor in the yard on days when they know I’ll be working my butt off inside.