I’m trying to imagine what it would be like to meet a much more successful, put together version of myself at one of my lowest points. I… think that would be pretty awful, actually. President Reed means well, but is he really the best guy to be talking to Sam right now? END OF CHAPTER [...]
Aaaannnnnndddd that’s a wrap, folks! Chapter 21, “Death and Destruction,” is in the can. Wanna read it from the beginning? Start right here! I don’t know if I’m right about this, but I THINK this was our most action heavy chapter yet. For a strip that eschewed action for years, that’s not saying much, I [...]
Surprise! We’re back! I know, I know… usually we do a big rollout and make announcements and all of that. This time around, I figured let’s not tease it… let’s just do it. Let’s just launch out of the blue and rip that band-aid off immediately. Everybody cool with that? Cool. PREVIOUSLY ON THE SUPERFOGEYS… [...]
Annnnd we’re still back! Those of you who have already figured that out, we’re so glad you’re back with us! Please help us spread the word! I’m interested in seeing what you guys make of today’s strip… or to know if you already figured out a couple days ago what we’re laying down here. A [...]
Week 2 of our return! If you haven’t spread the word already, please do. We take such long hiatuses that I know it takes a while for word to get out when we come back. THE THRICE EVIL Some of you picked up what we were laying down last week. If you didn’t already figure [...]
I fully admit that maybe my favorite thing about this strip is just that I got to use that title. But also, there’s the song. Sung by starving orphans (because of course!). If you haven’t already figured it out, I’ll clue you in: think My Country, Tis of Thee or, if you’re British, God Save [...]
Sorry about that folks! The site was down over the weekend, but it’s all back up and running now. Thanks for your patience! As for today’s strip… we’re really setting the stage here. Thrice Evil is a different kind of bad guy from Zurida, and his Lodge of Doom are a different kind of cronies. [...]
And now it can be known… the identity of “Dastard Number Two.” Raise your hand if you guessed “Jerry.” All hands go up? Good. Thought so. And check out his new duds! Courtesy one Marc Lapierre. The dude deserves all the awards. Since the “One Year Later” jump Jerry has been floating in and out [...]
The back-and-forth Dark/Star Maiden is a fun one for me. Dark is so much fun to write because, at this point, she’s kind of Kylo Renning it and trying to resist the pull towards the light, but I do tend to miss Star quite a bit when she’s not around. Her particular brand of crazy [...]
There’s honestly few things that drive my wife crazier than the sound of someone eating or slurping their soup. So, credit her with partial inspiration for this strip. She’s right there with you, Swifty. Right there with you… See you on Monday with 740 – Boop!
Star Maiden is back! Star Maiden is back! I don’t know about you… but I’ve missed her. Dark Maiden is a ton of fun, but there’s something about Star Maiden’s particular brand of crazy that I just enjoy immensely. Her return, at least for me, is quite welcome. How about you guys? Where do you [...]
Here’s a pairing that never occurred to me until I did it: Gina Galloway and Percy–the two children (of Portalmaker [aka Alt. Jerry] and Captain Spectacular, respectively) who don’t have counterparts on either Earth. Makes me wish I’d thought of doing it sooner! JERRY Jerry, once again, is lurking about. Like I said, this chapter [...]
Mega Matt. Boy if there’s one character who I think went from fan favorite to kind of… annoying, I think it’s him. I don’t know what it was, exactly, but I remember readers really loving Matt in the Society of Heroes origin story, but it seems the more I used him in the main story [...]
Double-sized strips return! Marc decided to pull out all the stops for this one, and it shows. I don’t think he gets enough credit for his stellar work on this comic. Without him, I simply wouldn’t have been able to giving SF the scope it now has. This is pretty mild, as double-sized strips go–it’s [...]
So sorry for not adding text here! I’ve been traveling and attending a film festival and did not have a chance. Not that you really NEED my ramblings. Still, this was a fun one to write. I’m only sorry there wasn’t room to illustrate the different ways Zurida “rules” the USZ! See you on Wednesday [...]
The Song of Rocket’s Loyalty! Since I’m a bit late (again) with my missives, I’ll address something that’s already in the comments below: no, there is no melody to this song. At least, not one that I have in mind. Would be interesting to try to apply one… but I confess to zero musical and [...]
This is the downside to having your doppelganger come over from another, better world: you might get treated like crap. Really, this joke was just too good to pass up. You name a character “Suckface” and this is a visual that has to happen at some point. It HAS to. SUPERFOGEYS ON INSTAGRAM! Reminder: we’re [...]
Let’s give it up for Marc Lapierre, ladies and gentlemen. That’s a truly disgusting second panel. Maybe it’s just me, but food running out of people’s mouths is so, so gross to me. I’ve got kids and I’ve NEVER gotten used to it. If you eat a meal with me and you dribble something out, [...]
I’ve made mistakes. I’ve made mistakes that I regretted so deeply I didn’t know if I’d ever deserve good things again. In those moments I try to remember that we are not the sum total of our mistakes. They may overwhelm our memory, but they don’t have to overwhelm who we are. Each of us [...]
Hey, we’ve all been there, right? You’re a megalomaniacal, insecure villain in love with the greatest super spy of all time, you see her flirting with the transdimensional alternate version of the guy your true love has been making goo-goo eyes at, you walk in on that big, burly President of the Alternate-U.-S.-of-A. giving your [...]
HOW DARE SHE! Did Jerry deserve it? Is Spy Gal overreacting? Can this tear in their marriage be mended? Your thoughts below! See you on Wednesday with 751 – Who Do You Think Paid for All This?
UPDATE! Our return date has been postponed… but only by one week. We’ll see you all back here on Monday, January 8th! Meantime, Happy New Year! Ever wondered what happened to all of Captain Spectacular’s money? Well, now you know! This conversation is a real blast from the past. It seems so, so long ago [...]
Hey everybody, we’re back! Holidays are over, Marc’s equipment is back in fighting form, and strips are in the queue! And thank goodness. I always get a little antsy when SF is on hiatus. Some great stuff ahead, and I can’t wait to see what you all make of it. Jerry vs. Michelle, anyone? See [...]
Anybody else watching Star Trek: Discovery? I’m not gonna pretend it’s top tier television, but I do feel like it’s unfairly maligned. It’s a great new spin on Trek that’s going its own way while also adhering to the world as its been established. I could do without the f-words and Klingon nudity (seriously), but [...]
This is a bit of an odd duck of a strip, I know. Two characters we barely know (and yet know very, very well), caught up in their own drama. Anybody seen The Big Short? Fantastic movie that makes the housing crisis of 2008 not only easy to comprehend, but fun and funny. It’s filled [...]
I could do a whole comic series with just Michelle and Jerry. Imagine them as roommates. He, with the wacky weekly plots and schemes. She with the take-no-bull attitude, eyerolling her way through every mad plot. It would be AMAZING. You can’t convince me otherwise. See you on Monday with 756 – Professional Shill!
Oh, Gorgeous Guy. Once you were Captain Spectacular II… how very, very far you have fallen. IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY! I celebrated my birthday this past Saturday, the one year anniversary of the Trump Administration (yay?). I highly recommend birthdays in my house. We treat the celebrated like kings around her. Homemade cake from scratch, [...]
All evil despots know the best way into the hearts of the people is to humanize yourself with the fluff television interview! Become an evil despot yourself and try it. You’ll see. REMINDER! THE SUPERFOGEYS IS ON INSTAGRAM! Back in September I started posting The SuperFogeys on Instagram from the very beginning. Just this week [...]
One of the passions I’ve take up in the past few years is writing and directing my own films. Last September, I shot for five days on a short I wrote called “The Two Hundred Fifth.” Just this weekend we finally got around to doing reshoots. I try to avoid reshoots, but they are inevitable. [...]
Once in a while, I ask Marc to go double-sized (though these days it’s far more common for him to tell me it’s time to go double-sized), and he always delivers. In fact, there’s so much that’s so great about the art in this strip that I didn’t feel like the script really matched it [...]
Raise your hand if you remembered inside of senile, fragile Abaddon Thrice Evil (aka OG Thrice) is a raging egomaniac every bit as evil and out of control as Avalon Thrice. Oh yeah, he’s still in there. The question is: will he come out? If you’ll recall: not if Jerry has anything to say about [...]
Rolling peas… there’s a metaphor in there somewhere, I’m sure. Just haven’t quite worked it out. Sometimes, you write a thing because it feels right, not necessarily because you know why. SUPERFOGEYS IS LIVE ON WEBTOON! So, I did it. I pulled the trigger. The SuperFogeys is now up on Webtoon, the biggest webcomic site [...]
The match-up you’ve been waiting for! But, as someone mentioned last week, kind of hard to have a “vs.” if the other guy is more interested in rolling his peas. WEBTOON UPDATE Well, SF has been on Webtoon for nearly a week now and we’ve amassed (as of this writing) 70 subscribers. That’s 70 new [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day, everybody! My wife HATES Valentine’s, so this is quite the relaxing day for me. THE BATTLE OF FRESNO It’s long been hinted at and talked about… but it’s finally time for Soviet Sam to talk about the tragedy of the Battle of Fresno. Just… not right away. In this chapter though, for [...]
Shades of Mrs. Robinson! Dr. Rocket is playing with some fire right there. WEBTOON and INSTAGRAM I have to say, it’s super bizarre posting everything from the beginning again on Webtoon and Instagram. Most of the week, I’m flashing back 8-10 years ago, posting strips I’ve almost forgotten about at this point. And then twice [...]
Zurida is nothing if not fickle. But her heart is in the right place. (As long as that place is a deep, dark hole filled with betrayal, misery, and sadism. But hey, to each their own, right?) See you on Monday with 766 – Always!
I confess I didn’t see the relationship between Dr. Rocket and Zurida coming, but now that it’s here I don’t want it to ever go away. They may be, as Champy-kun mentioned in last week’s comments, a “great gross couple,” but they’re a lovable great gross couple. See you on Wednesday with 767 – Done [...]
Ladies and gentlemen… the softer side of Jerry. A lot of this chapter has been building up to this moment and I thought about a lot of different ways these two characters could handle it. Typically, Jerry would fly off the handle (as we’ve seen him do in this chapter), but I think it’s easy [...]
I love Spy Gal with gritted teeth! I don’t know why, but the way Marc drew here in panel 3 just makes me happy. I also love the look of this particular strip. That green in the hologram is not one we see too often around here and it really helps this stand apart. It’s [...]
I gotta tell ya… this strip took a long dang time to letter. Those “radio voice” word balloons are not easy to work with! This strip, I think it’s fair to say, really sets the stage for the next chapter. We’re getting close to the end of the SuperFogeys and there’s a massive confrontation in [...]
There’s so much going on here I’m just gonna leave it for you guys to talk about. See you Wednesday with 770 – One Year Earlier…
FINALLY! It’s time to talk about that missing year. Several chapters back, The SuperFogeys leaped forward one year in its own timeline to find the world much changed. Zurida had conquered the U.S., the Fogeys had once again become the Society of Heroes and were now living in what’s left of California, Soviet Sam was [...]
Every time I challenge Marc to give SF some sweep and scope… he comes through in spades. I only wish that first panel were bigger so I could get some of those captions out of the way. This whole flashback sequence is gonna really give Marc a chance to shine. I can’t wait for you [...]
Once again, Marc stuns. That first panel is a keeper, and any excuse I can have to make Marc draw debris breaking apart, I’ll take it. He’s a master. WEBTOON UPDATE The big Dr. Klein/Third Man/Jerry reveal just dropped on Webtoon yesterday. Reaction were both surprising and predictable. These new readers didn’t know what hit [...]
These flashback strips are really such a showcase for Marc’s talent that I feel like anything I have to say just doesn’t matter. I will say that if you know Soviet Sam… then you probably already know how this is gonna go. See you on Wednesday with 775 – Raging Percy!
Behold… the power of Percy. APOLOGIES TO OUR $3+ PATRONS HUGE apologies to our $3+ Patrons. You were supposed to see this strip a day early, as usual, but there was a delay in production that was entirely my fault. Marc, as usual, got the artwork to me on time, but then I completely spaced. [...]
I can’t apologize enough (again!) for this being late. We had to rush Cami to the ER last night (yep, on Easter) and it completely threw me off. She had a seizure–her first in three years. She’s doing fine now, but obviously it was a little scary. In other words… blame me, not Marc, that [...]
I daresay Marc has outdone himself with this one. I think it’s among the very best work he’s ever done, and it’s on a strip I know for a fact was incredibly difficult for him to draw. We’re both fathers to girls and this is a tough one. BRIEF HIATUS We’re in the home stretch [...]
Welcome back? Did you miss us? I know it was a short hiatus (only one week), but there’s just something wrong about a week without SuperFogeys. THE EYE PATCH I’ve been looking forward to revealing the significance of Sam’s eye patch ever since we made the jump to one year later. This harrowing tale of [...]
Not gonna lie. This episode is pulling from a pretty personal place for me. Not that I think I’m unique. We all face down failure, most of us over and over again. I think about it a lot–whether I’m kidding myself to have hope that things will get better after I’ve failed so much and [...]
We’re getting so very near the end of this chapter and I’ll be sad to see it go. We’re due for another hiatus, but more than that I just really enjoy these chapters that focus so very much on character. The next one is another culminating chapter that will… well, we’ll get there. SWIFTY ORIGIN [...]
I love it when Marc goes widescreen! So, so cool seeing all these characters in one place. We’ve come a long, long way since those early chapters. AND THE OFFICIAL ARTIST OF THE SUPERFOGEYS ORIGIN IS… T.L. COLLINS! That’s right, after much behind-the-scenes drama and two artists dropping out, I’ve finally secured an artist for [...]
Spy Gal sets us up for what the next chapter is about as Jerry stands unseen nearby. If you’re wondering what he’s thinking… well, the rest of this chapter should prove quite revealing. Time for Jerry to do something he’s never done before and just TALK honestly with someone. Spill his guts. Just WHO he [...]
And here it is, the last sequence of Chapter 22! Some of you saw this coming… but I doubt you’ll see where it’s going. See you on Monday with 784 – What is Jerry Missing?
The wordiest strip we’ve ever done? Quite possibly. WEBTOON UPDATE So, SuperFogeys BLEW UP on Webtoon last week! We were chosen as an Editor’s Pick, which brought a whole lot of people over to check it all out. We more than doubled our subscriber base from just over 500 to over 1200 in about 5 [...]
Thrice Evil gets Jerry’s hamster wheels turning. That can only be a good thing, right? See you on Monday with 786 – The Opening the Door!
Theories on what Jerry means to do may commence… now. See you on Wednesday with the final installment of Chapter 22: The Dastards with 287 – Where to Start?
ANNOUNCEMENT! SuperFogeys returns Monday, June 4 with the Origin of Swifty! Mark your calendars! And so ends Chapter 22! With a GORGEOUS, Ditko-inspired panoramic courtesy of Marc Lapierre! The man has truly outdone himself this chapter. What did you guys think? A bit of a breather chapter, as far as these things go. Not a [...]
Sorry about that, everybody! Yes, the site was down for several days, but it’s back now! And just in time. You wouldn’t want to miss Swifty’s origin, would you? I’m so excited for you all to read this one and see what we’ve cooked up. There are some BIG surprises ahead! THE SUPERFOGEYS ON THE COMICS [...]
Swifty origin continues with AMAZING art from T.L. Collins. I’m gonna have to show you guys the full version of past speedsters. T.L. did some great design work. How are you guys liking the origin so far? What questions are you hoping are answered? See you next week with Pg. 3 “The Prophecy!”
