Hey, I’m back! Had a nice little break there and now I’m back in full force (though I’ve been active in the comments and in posting blogs), ready to provide the regular dose of inanity for you to skip over on your way down to the comments. Today’s strip is a reveal I’ve been looking forward to for a long, long time. It follows up directly on something Sam said during the invasion (major kudos if you can figure out which strip that was) and is a big signpost towards what I’m hoping to say with Sam’s character. Good stuff, and ably rendered and designed by Mr. Marc Lapierre–who did a great job filling in for me while I was gone.
For those of you who followed the drama last week that was my sudden discovery that someone had been translating and posting SuperFogeys in Russian (you can read all about it in the blog about that discovery and my follow-up blog reporting on what happened when I made contact with one of the translators), I got sent a neat little note from Spinner. This is what Dusker, the original translator, had to say about why he started the project:
“I did it because of Jerry. I’m a huge Robin fan. Robin was so great in Teen Titans and Young Justice, now I like him even more than Batman. So when I saw Jerry, who is a parody of Robin, a deconstruction of Robin and a tribute to Robin at the same time I’ve had a nerdgasm. When I saw that cover to Jerry’s Origins I immediately decided to translate SuperFogeys. I dug into it and translated pretty much (up to the Dark Maiden invasion in plain text and about two hundret fully edited pages), but then stuff happened… Anyway, I still think Superfogeys is great and Jerry is great, so keep up the good work and thank you.”
As he alludes to here, Dusker had to stop translating for personal reasons, but Spinner has taken up the charge and continues to post SuperFogeys in Russian five times at week over at the Russian site. Now, with my blessing. (We’ll have a more permanent link up soon.)
Don’t forget: SuperFogeys Origins is back! You can see the latest page here, or you start “Spy Gal – Captured,” the direct sequel to Spy Gal’s origin right here.
Yea right, Sam can’ be president. He wasn’t born in America. (Hint: he totally was)
You’re gonna need to source that!
http://superfogeys.com/2010/05/25/sf-origins-the-life-and-times-of-soviet-sam-pg-1-where-the-story-begins/
Curses. It doesn’t straight up say he was born in America, because it could be that his American parents were visiting another country. All we know is that he wasn’t born in the Soviet Union.
That’s true, there is some wiggle room in the way the story is told.
Thankfully, this issue is addressed head on on Wednesday.
The white outfit is a good idea because it looks good on her. Duh.
I could not agree more. One of Marc’s best redesigns.
What? No hat??
I know. It makes me sad, too.
What good is being President if he can’t get a hat?
I guess means ‘Soviet Sam’ is now ‘Uncle Sam’.
And JUST when our Russian friends were getting into SF.
This’n: http://superfogeys.com/2013/02/06/478-what-if-money-man-had-lived/
Ding, ding, ding! All the kudos are yours, sir. Nice work.
So in this version he never stopped being a villain huh. Something something George Bush.
I think your politics is showing.
Not quite a shocker for people paying attention, but a good direction I think. Did you know that alternate history practically has become it’s own sub genre? This could be almost as fascinating as if I had ever existed in the first place.
Yeah, I’m admit I’m a huge sucker for alternate universes. In fact, I’ve got a whole other comic idea that is all about parallel universes in a way I’ve never seen before. I hope to one day get to use it.
The alternate history of Earth-Avalon and how and why the two worlds are different will clear by the end of this chapter. You can probably already guess at least one major points of deviation. There are a few others.
Oddly the first guess that comes to mind is that there is no “Jerry” in Avalon.
No comment.
How ya’ gonna explain the 4/5 finger diversion?!
Verrrrrrry carefully.
Wow, and when you really think about it…you had to,see this coming considering Sam’s nature in the strips so far.
That you can say that makes me very happy. I hate it when Alt universe stuff is just the opposite of what we’re familiar with with no rhyme or reason to it. This should feel logical to a certain extent or it just doesn’t work.
She just can’t wear that outfitt after Labor Day.
Heh. Someone’s been reading the tags.
I knew that cover was a great idea!
Indeed it was, sir! You just didn’t know how good.
Sam is the president?! Awesome! I’d totally vote for him!
Who wouldn’t? (Well, 45% of the voters, as it turned out.)
ou yea a world where he rules ,) that sam is a great guy