I’ve been putting the call out this past week for your picks for the best SuperFogeys strips. Marc and I are trying to craft an ashcan comic to hand out at conventions to give newbies a good idea of what SF is all about. My thought right now is to pick a selection of funny and and a selection of more serious strips and one complete SF: Origins tale. Should make for a nice little book.
The problem is that SuperFogeys is serialized. Not all strips out of their original context. So, that’s your criteria. If you’d like to help out, pick one funny and one serious strip and make sure that each can stand reasonably well on their own. I’d also love to hear your suggestions for which is the very best SF: Origins tale. Helpful Tip: Try using the archive pull-down below the strips on the home page to jump to a scroll of each chapter individually–that way you can look at a whole chapter at once!
To make this more fun, I’m gonna post the ones that make the cut below. In that way, this post will become a nice primer for anyone who wants to check out SF online as well. I’ve already gotten some suggestions from Twitter, so we’ll start with those. Enjoy!
HUMOR:
DRAMA:
INTRIGUE:
Please share your suggestions in the comments below. If I feel like they meet the criteria, I’ll add them to this post!
I always liked the version of Cap running without the “CENSORED” bar far better and found it funnier. To me, the bar is large, bulky and sticks out like a sore thumb too much. It catches the eye for me too well and I think overwhelms the eyes to go straight to it instead of pay attention to the joke and actually what is going on. I think you may have chosen to redo it that way for reasons of the conscience, so I understand and don’t disagree in such a case. I think my only problem with it then is that it’s too distracting.
Definitely loved all of those strips!
I hear you. We made the change because when we submitted the Ch. 2 app for the iPhone, Apple kicked on that strip and said it made SF for Mature Readers Only–even though all you saw was his thigh. We put the censor bar over him and they were cool with that. It struck me as a funnier and way more suggestive than the original, so I just decided to change it permanently. Sorry it’s not your speed. I can see how it’s distracting, but I do love it so.
best cartoon strip on the Web, besides Dilbert of course. Thanks for pulling this together, brock!
Hey, thanks, Ben!
If you’re going to do a SF Origin, than you’re going to want to include “Dr.Kleins” big reveal or any other strip after that, that will include him won’t make any sense in the context.