OK... So I just drank an iced tea with "natural raspberry flavor." As I drained the bottle, my eyes lit upon the ingredients. "Contains no raspberry juice."

Now... somebody has to answer me this: What kind of natural raspberry flavor does one get without using raspberry juice?

What the heck did I just put into my body, people?!

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Who's that dashing, distinguished man doing a cameo in today's installment of Capes 'N' Babes? Big thanks to my pal Chris Flick for a very funny strip!

If you haven't checked out Chris' marvelous work, be sure to bookmark his site. He hits a number of comic-book and comic-book-culture themes that you're bound to get a charge out of. And his linework is pretty easy on the eyes, too, no?

Now, if you'll kindly excuse me, I have to go register randylugar.com. Bow-chicka-WOW-wow...

If you're hoping to get signed Evil Inc books and other evil mementos, San Diego is going to be the place to be next week. I'll be bringing all three Evil Inc Annual Report volumes, copies of the How To Make Webcomics book, and a few copies of the two Courting Disaster volumes.

Also, I'm going to have a selection of original art on hand for sale. If you're going to be at the convention -- and if you'd like to have a particular strip available for purchase -- please get in touch using the e-mail link at the top of the page. I'll have an original Phables comic for sale, too.

Finally... BUTTONS! I'll have buttons for a buck at the booth. Choose from three styles: The Evil Inc logo, the VILF design, and a Lightning Lady illustration. You can see the designs above. The Lightning Lady button is the first in a series of Evil Inc character buttons, so get yours now!

If you're going to the convention -- and if you want something that's not listed above -- please get in touch so I can have it on hand for you!

Check out the often-imitated-never-duplicated Webcomics Weekly Podcast, featuring Scott Kurtz, Dave Kellett, Kris Straub, and myself. If you love listening to cartoonists talking shop, this is a must. You can keep up with the latest updates via our RSS feed.

Episode 41: Lipton Green Tea with citrus, Brad recaps comic-convention critiques, the future of mobile comics, comics for the blind and more. Listen now!

SHOW NOTE: We've move our podcast to Libsyn.com! You'll be able to follow all of the upcoming podcasts there. If you want it in your iTunes just open iTunes, then at the top where you see file and edit and stuff go to Advanced click on it then go to subscribe to podcast and put in the link: http://ww.libsyn.com/rss (note, there's only two w's -- not three) ... It should start downloading the podcasts from there on.