This is the payoff for all the set-up I did at the beginning of the chapter with Spy Gal and Jerry. Wait, I take that back, you don’t really get the payoff for this until Chapter 5, but this is the beginning. Pants. Always good for a joke. Spy Gal growing suspicious of Dr. Klein [...]
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Nurse Carter has a personality! I think I do an alright job of developing my characters, but Nurse Carter has always been the one that I’ve neglected. Here, finally, she says something that hints at something resembling a thought in her head. It’s the kind of character humor that can be difficult to do, but [...]
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Feb 29, 12 | 391 – Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun… |
Sep 5, 16 | 696 – Account Closed |
Mar 4, 07 | 107 – Bubbles of Light 1 |
Nov 14, 12 | 458 – Quite An Entrance |
Jan 29, 20 | 828 – Sorry About the Torture |
133 – Beginning the Tale of How Captain Spectacular Met Dr. Klein
by Brock Heasley on April 3rd, 2007Drawing a sauced Captain Spectacular was so much fun that I have to find a way to do it again. I WILL find a way to do it again. Originally, this was going to be flashback to how CS met Jerry. I’ll still tell that story one day, but with Spy Gal’s suspicions raised, I [...]
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Nov 11, 06 | 39 – Jerry Arrives Late |
Oct 24, 16 | 707 – Demise |
May 6, 10 | 255 – Parental Duty |
Aug 3, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal’s Secret Mission, Pg. 3 “Hitting Bottom” |
Apr 21, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 10 “The Lodge of Doom” |
Here’s one of the advantages of planning far, far ahead: I can drop tidbits in here and there because, to me, the stories already exist. Tom and the Mysterious Woman in the photograph are something for later (probably Chapter 7), but knowing about them already, I can use them to illustrate a point here. The [...]
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Jul 1, 11 | Pg. 12 “Comic Book Clothing Physics” |
Sep 27, 06 | 6 – Introducing Spy Gal! |
Feb 17, 10 | SF Origins: The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular, Pg. 7 “Two Years” |
Aug 11, 14 | Marc Lapierre and The SuperFogeys |
Had a blast with the first panel. I love drawing Mr. Crook, design courtesy of Eskimo Dave creator Mike Hartigan. I wish he wasn’t dead. Check back to Episode 10 of Chapter 1 for a part of Mr. Crook’s story. Mustache on Captain Spectacular doesn’t look too bad. A little more insight on the Jerry/Swifty [...]
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Mar 9, 12 | Pg. 3 “His Old Flame” |
Apr 1, 07 | 131 – Spy Gal Cares |
Oct 1, 15 | Chapter 21 Teaser! |
Oct 30, 13 | 544 – Whose Mess Is It, Anyway? |
Mar 28, 07 | 127 – Entralean Slime Pellet |
This was supposed to be a very normal operation with some choice quips from Dr. Rocket. That was the idea anyway. Then I remembered, “Oh yeah, this is the SuperFogeys.” As with most things involving Dr. Rocket, this crosses the line from weird into disturbing. I’m pretty much okay with that.
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Mar 30, 07 | 129 – Captain Spectacular’s Plea |
May 8, 13 | 502 – The Presidio Thumb |
Mar 20, 07 | 119 – #@$% Heroic |
Oct 17, 12 | 450 – Neither One of Them Expected It |
Mar 17, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 5 “Prison Stripes” |
Wow. Just, wow. This strip is sooooo busy. I think there’s a certain charm to it, but hold crud, those panels are just loaded. Usually not a good idea. I have no idea why the Space Pig is singing “Last Kiss.” That was the song that seemed to fit and once I got the idea [...]
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Mar 17, 07 | 116 – Still Hot |
Dec 8, 14 | The SuperFogeys 2015 Teaser and Special Announcements |
Jun 19, 08 | 140 – The Kindness of His Heart |
Mar 3, 14 | 576 – Torture Chamber 3B |
Nov 30, 11 | 367 – The Division Sword |
This is a mean, mean cliffhanger. I don’t know that it’s fair to end this chapte like this, but it really couldn’t end any other way. Thematically, the next chapter has to begin a few seconds after Dr. Rockets declaration of good news and bad news. I’m hoping it’ll make sense why I did it [...]
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This and the next three WebSpace Pages were intended for Chapter 3 proper, but I couldn’t fit them in and still make the big Third Man reveal be #100–which was important to me. The Captain isn’t the most popular SuperFogey, but he is the most important. All the clues to why are here in his [...]
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Feb 26, 09 | 197 – Requiem |
Aug 28, 19 | 795 – The Duality of All Creatures |
Sep 30, 11 | Chapter 7, “Visiting Day” Recap by Rossana Bugini |
Nov 11, 10 | 284 – Pairing Off |
Mar 4, 10 | 246 – Righteous Kill |
Had a lot of fun drawing Spy Gal in her civvies. Just makes sense to me that she’d be into firearms. Originally, her profile pic was completely different. She was leaning on a pillow and it was nice, but…I hated it. So I’ve switched it out for the one you see above. Matches the other [...]
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Oct 2, 06 | 10 – Why Spy Gal Came to Valhalla |
Apr 2, 14 | 585 – Atomic Fly’s Special Delivery |
Aug 10, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal’s Secret Mission, Pg. 4 “Courtesy Call” |
Dec 16, 10 | 289 – Not Yet |
Jan 21, 07 | 81 – Jerry Denied! |
That profile pic of Jerry is my most favorite drawing of him that I’ve done. It just captures him so perfectly. The first mission of the Society of Heroes is a tale I want to tell. It should appear as a backup story in a future SuperFogeys book. Watch for that.
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Aug 27, 14 | 621 – Jerry’s Powers |
Oct 22, 09 | 230 – Cleaning Out Her Ears |
May 19, 14 | 596 – That’s the Mission |
Mar 16, 20 | 839 – What What |
Jan 7, 10 | Guest Strip by Will Boyer of “The Misadventures of Super Milo!” |
This has the worst SuperFogeys drawing I’ve ever done or likely will do. That photo of young Swifty and his car is just atrocious. The less said here the better.
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Aug 20, 18 | Swifty Origin, Pg. 12 “Party Hard” |
Mar 29, 07 | 128 – Only Two People in the World… |
Nov 19, 20 | 857 – Knocked Off the Perch |
Jul 23, 14 | 612 – A Tale of Two Swifties. |
Aug 5, 11 | Pg. 3 “A Decent Fish Stick” |
The Space Pig’s a minister. Why not? I did it as a setup for something later in the chapter, but I don’t think anyone ever made the connection. I debated for a long time whether “High on the Hog” was blasphemous. I guess I decided it wasn’t!
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Jul 9, 08 | Guest Strip by Rufus Edge of “comicdeoxyribonucleicacid!” |
Jan 20, 12 | Pg. 2 “Strange Visitor” |
Aug 4, 22 | 912 – Jerry Speaks |
Nov 8, 06 | 36 – Valhalla Stinks! |
Jan 23, 13 | 474 – Overwhelmed |
I wish I had never done the WebSpace pages. Originally, I thought they would be a great change of pace. A fun way to get to know characters better that the readers would enjoy. Well, that all happened. To an extent. But then I kept doing it. And doing it. I felt some reader fatigue [...]
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Captain Supermarket is actually a real person. Sort of. The real Captain Supermarket is Justin Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of Th3rd World Studios. “The Rant Aisle” is his sometimes blog on pop culture that can be found on the Th3rd World site. I liked the idea of a person thinking themselves a superhero simply for trolling message [...]
Full disclosure: I’m not a gambler. In fact, it’s very much against my personal, religious beliefs to gamble. Still, the idea popped into my head for these characters and I had to do it. Besides, I know the Fogeys are going to Vegas one day. Guess who they’re gonna find there?
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Jul 4, 11 | 330 – Swim City |
May 23, 11 | 318 – The Plans of Dr. Klein, Pt. 1 “Getting Rid of Captain Spectacular” |
Nov 22, 06 | 49 – The Pen is Shinier Than the Sword |
Jan 16, 12 | 378 – Things Fall Apart |
Nov 23, 06 | 50 – And the Actual Winner of Bingo Night is… |
Mega Matt was done as a favor to Th3rd World publisher Michael DeVito. He has a friend, Matt, who is pretty much as you see above. Well, not exactly. But pretty close. I had a lot of fun doing this page and drew on a couple of my own friends for inspiration. In fact, I [...]
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Captain Emo was the winning entry in the first SuperFogeys “Create-A-Character” contest. He was created by William Sharpe, III and will reappear in a future chapter. Had so much fun with the song lyrics. I can’t write lyrics, which made it all the more perfect, I think.
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May 25, 12 | Pg. 3 “A Couple of Brothers” |
Oct 3, 16 | 703 – Like a Television During a Calliou Marathon |
Jan 6, 11 | Guest Strip by Marjorie Rishel |
Sep 30, 11 | Chapter 7, “Visiting Day” Recap by Rossana Bugini |
Nov 7, 16 | 711- Fallen Son |
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This is the cover to Book 2, which collected both all of Chapter 3 and the backup story, “Captain Spectacular and Star Maiden in the Inevitable Dimension.”
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Apr 28, 14 | 590 – Will He Fight? |
Nov 9, 11 | 361 – The Whole Place is Coming Down |
Feb 24, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 2 “Swifty” |
Aug 27, 18 | Swifty Origin, Pg. 13 “Doom” |
With Chapter 4 complete, it’s time to roll out Book #3! This cover was a collaboration between me and the artist known only as Jorzac. He generously provided pencils and then those are my sloppy inks slapped on top. Colors byMADConk. Thanks, Jorzac! Collection #3 of course contains the entirety of Chapter 4, along with a [...]
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Jan 23, 07 | 82 – Refuge in Dr. Klein’s Office |
Jul 22, 08 | 147 – Three Plus Seven |
Dec 30, 09 | Guest Strip by Crystal Murphy, Part Two |
Oct 28, 13 | 543 – The Ignored Little Boy |
Apr 18, 11 | 308 – Time Displaced/Erased/No Taste |
UPDATE! COLLECTION #4 NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! This is it! The cover to the fourth collection of the SuperFogeys. Dare I say it’s our best one yet? Didn’t start out that way though. Th3rd World Publisher Michael DeVito deserves all the credit in the world for the stellar job he did on the coloring for [...]
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Nov 17, 09 | SF Origins: Spy Gal vs. Star Maiden, Pg. 3 “The Last Punch” |
Aug 6, 09 | 219 – Bubbles of Light 5 |
Oct 8, 09 | 228 – The Star Maiden Strip Show |
Oct 20, 06 | 26 – How Jerry Met Spy Gal |
Aug 8, 11 | 340 – What Lovely Teeth You Have |
THE TEASER FOR CHAPTER 7, “VISITING DAY” Chapter 6, “Funeral for a Frenemy” is over! The Dr. Rocket we knew was really the impostor Herman! The real Dr. Rocket is back! So…now what? What happens in “Visiting Day?” I cannot tell, but I can tease… Spoiler Alert! Skip to the next section of the post [...]
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May 26, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 15 “DUDE!” |
Oct 15, 20 | 847 – Macho Verve and Vigor |
Jul 6, 12 | Pg. 4 “The Very, Very Long Battle” |
Apr 13, 12 | Pg. 8 “Enter: The Thrice Evil” |
Jan 23, 12 | 380 – Mr. Jerry |
Commentary I’m proud to say that no one guessed how in the world the cliffhanger from the end of the last chapter would resolve itself. The nice thing about doing a humor strip is that, at times, the humor can be a convenient “out” of a storytelling situation and somehow it doesn’t feel cheap. In [...]
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Commentary Even more with the convincing the audience that this is really who Dr. Rocket is now. While not exactly visually resplendent, I wanted to revisit something here (both artistically and from a character standpoint) that I hadn’t shown since chapter one: that in Valhalla “things are different” and mortal enemies can play a game [...]
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Commentary Visually, I really love this one. After what I felt was kind of a visually bankrupt previous strip, I really wanted to do something different with this one. With the action being outside of Valhalla and not featuring any of the Fogeys, the opportunity was certainly there. Dictator Tot’s exit was a long time [...]
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Mar 20, 07 | 119 – #@$% Heroic |
Nov 25, 08 | 182 – Someone Steps Forward (Bubbles of Light 3) |
Mar 21, 07 | 120 – Swifty’s Losing? |
Oct 11, 17 | 737 – Dastard Number Two |
Jul 4, 11 | 330 – Swim City |
Commentary Now, this I realize that this is almost entirely a cut-and-paste job from an eariler strip. In this case, I thought it was justified as a)it allowed me to get ahead a little and b)it was perfect for the pacing I was trying to achieve. I think the coloring really sells it and I had [...]
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Nov 10, 20 | 854 – Don’t Touch the Lava |
Feb 10, 14 | 570 – Cavalry |
Jan 15, 07 | 70 – Gene and Dictator Tot Reunite |
Jan 17, 07 | 72 – Dictator Tot’s Marching Orders |
Commentary This strip hearkens back to something set up in Star Maiden’s WebSpace page, namely that she was a webcam girl. I had a lot of fun with the second panel in trying to make Star look both sexy and deranged. The drool pretty much sold it. Swifty’s feeling at the end of this strip pretty [...]
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Feb 27, 12 | 390 – Bubbles of Light 7 |
Mar 2, 10 | SF Origins: The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular, Pg. 9 “Mature Love” |
Mar 5, 18 | 768 – Boy-Haired Crone |
Mar 10, 07 | 109 – WHO THREW THIS!? |
Commentary Looking at my comments below, it’s clear I wasn’t very happy about the way this strip turned out at the time. Looking at it now, I’m not sure what my problem was. Looks pretty decent to me, although I regret the color scheme I chose for Jerry’s hospital room, especially since he’s going to [...]
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BRIAN ANDERSON Today’s amazing spotlight on Dr. Rocket comes to us from Brian Anderson of the nationally syndicated comic strip,Dog Eat Doug! Brian is doing me a huge favor this week as last week’s ER visit really threw me off my game. Look at the detail in the good Doctor’s face! Amazing work, Brian, and [...]
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Jun 30, 14 | 605 – Underground Brawl |
Apr 1, 11 | Pg. 9 “Always” |
Mar 21, 12 | 397 – Memories of Neon Streets and Giant Menaces |
Apr 15, 11 | Pg. 1 “A Sudden Meeting” |
Aug 10, 16 | 689 – Zurida, the Mother |
RUFUS EDGE Holy Guest Strips, Captain! I was amazed to get 2 guest strips of high caliber this week, and now, suddenly, I’ve got two more! This latest one was actually submitted as Fan Art, but I think you can easily see why I tossed it into the regular rotation. I literally laughed out loud [...]
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Feb 27, 12 | 390 – Bubbles of Light 7 |
Aug 19, 19 | 792 – Dashing, Like Hyphens |
Aug 8, 14 | Pg. 6 “Back From the Dead” |
Mar 6, 07 | 108 – Spy Gal Will Protect Jerry |
Dec 2, 10 | 287 – GAH! |
LUCAS TURNBLOOM Guest strip week continues! Lucas Turnbloom is a fellow Tall Tale Features member and premiere editorial cartoonist. His work has been seen in USA Today, CNN.com, Time.com and a bunch of other places that wouldn’t touch my work with a 10-foot pole. Lucas’s first love is strip work and to that end he has [...]
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May 9, 12 | 410 – Attack of the Space Monkeys |
Aug 11, 09 | SF Origins: Tangerine, Pg. 3 “New Parts” |
Jun 10, 11 | Pg. 9 “College Years” |
Apr 10, 13 | 496 – The First Condition |
Nov 8, 17 | 745 – The Song of Rocket’s Loyalty |
SEAN CONCHIERI Today’s guest strip is a special one. Sean Conchieri is an early SuperFogeys supporter, having done the very first review of my little webcomic that could over at Way of the Geek. And here’s a follow-up review Sean did a year later, “Revisiting the SuperFogeys”. You can even see what the first SF strip looked like [...]
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Jun 17, 11 | Pg. 10 “Lost Faith” |
Oct 28, 08 | 175 – My Pleasure |
Sep 30, 11 | Chapter 7, “Visiting Day” Recap by Rossana Bugini |
Apr 20, 11 | 309 – Time Travelin’ Scamps |
Aug 17, 12 | Pg. 2 “Youthfulenergysupersurplus!” |
Commentary Ah, “Wrinkly Butt.” As this one was sitting at my drawing board, my wife happened upon it and exclaimed “WHAT IS UP WITH SPY GAL’S CHEST?” I explained that she’s been long established as a large-chested character and that she’s clearly folding her arms here so… My wife wasn’t having it. It was an [...]
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Oct 28, 13 | 543 – The Ignored Little Boy |
Sep 27, 06 | 6 – Introducing Spy Gal! |
Jun 5, 13 | 510 – The Evil, Evil Plan |
May 3, 09 | 206 – The Valhalla Basement Dungeon |
Oct 23, 13 | SuperFogeys Q and A: 4 of 4 |
Commentary Ah, the proposal. I think this veers towards the sitcomish, but I like it for one reason: that we stay on Jerry the whole way through. Jerry doesn’t say a word, but he has his own little George-Bailey-Welcoming-Home-His-Brother-At-The-Train-Station moment, a brilliant bit of acting by Jimmy Stewart in It’s A Wonderful Life in which he [...]
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Jan 28, 21 | 869 – A Wonderful Side Effect |
Nov 4, 08 | 176 – An Evil #@$% |
Mar 23, 12 | Pg. 5 “Where Are The Unicef Upstarts?” |
Jan 27, 20 | 827 – Lay Her Down |
Oct 16, 08 | 172 – The Superhero Code |
Commentary Okay, I admit it. I goofed. There’s a huge continuity error here and I didn’t realize it until months later. Spy Gal states in panel 2 that they had been engaged before. The thing is…I made it pretty clear in the flashback for Chapter 3 that they hadn’t. Captain Spectacular was PLANNING to propose, [...]
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Jan 17, 18 | 755 – Under the Radar |
Nov 24, 14 | 639 – What She Had to Do |
Dec 24, 12 | Merry Christmas From The SuperFogeys! |
Aug 28, 19 | 795 – The Duality of All Creatures |
Oct 14, 06 | 21 – You Must Respect Women, Dr. Rocket! |
Commentary I am nothing if not patient. I created Tangerine quite a while ago. In fact, his actual first appearance is on the cover of the first SuperFogeys book and in the bonus story of that same book as drawn by Mike Hartigan. Each of the SuperFogeys are pretty much analogues for characters in either the [...]
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Oct 2, 08 | 168 – Tangerine Gets His Mad On |
Aug 27, 12 | 439 – So IMPOLITE! |
Sep 9, 08 | 161 – Tangerine’s Arrival and Dr. Klein’s Return |
Dec 24, 09 | Guest Strip by Rufus Edge of “Comicdeoxyribonucleicacid!” No. 2! |
Aug 8, 12 | 434 – Marching Orders |
Commentary Ah! Ah! Ah! Too much! There’s just way too much going on in this strip. I could have easily took all the same ideas here and spread them out into three strips instead of compacting them into one. Plus, I was way too in love with my own dialogue. Swifty’s in the first panel [...]
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Dec 16, 13 | 557 – Dog Off the Leash |
May 21, 09 | 209 – Coming to Jesus |
Dec 21, 12 | Guest Strip by Crystal Murphy! |
Nov 6, 06 | 34 – Introducing the Healer! |
Mar 28, 07 | 127 – Entralean Slime Pellet |
Commentary My previous comments: Some of you have already seen this strip. I did this one a month or so back as a guest strip for Lucas Turnbloom’s “Imagine This”. But…as you can see from the previous strip…it fits right in nicely with our ongoing story. Big thanks to my Tall Tale Features compatriot for lending me [...]
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Jul 27, 12 | Pg. 5 “Long Night of the Monsters” |
Jun 9, 22 | 896 – Pushed Aside |
Jun 22, 11 | 327 – The Buddy System |
Jul 1, 08 | 143 – Ogle |
Feb 15, 11 | Pg. 3 “For The Girls” |
Commentary Ugh. Another butt-ugly strip. I think I’m starting to realize that this was a bit problem for me in Chapter 5 – too many strips trying to do too much. Dr. Rocket’s gift-giving continues here. Of particular note is the peanut butter cookie he gives Captain Spectacular. That’s actually a follow-up to a bonus [...]
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May 22, 13 | 506 – Disappearing Act |
Sep 28, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal, Pg. 5 “Mercenary Spies” |
Feb 1, 17 | 731 – Mr. Brightside |
Sep 22, 09 | SF Origins: Herman’s Story, Pg. 4 “I Am Dr. Rocket” |
Oct 11, 06 | 18 – Ben Gay Smell |
Commentary Oh, this is just the ultimate slam. Captain Spectacular is definitely a “lives in the moment” kind of guy. I just couldn’t resist kicking Jerry when he’s down. He doesn’t speak, but again he communicates a lot. This strip is also one of the first indications that Cap and Doc were once friends, [...]
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Apr 7, 14 | 586 – The New Percy |
Mar 17, 14 | 580 – The Pleasure of Conquering |
Oct 9, 08 | 170 – There Will Be Blood |
Sep 28, 16 | 702 – He’s Got Gloves |
Mar 5, 14 | 577 – Who are the Two Queens? |
Commentary This is one of those rare strips that I think is pretty good, both visually and from a story standpoint, but that has a pretty weak punchline. There’s just something so obvious about that last panel. What I do like a lot is the unconventional paneling. I don’t remember exactly how I hit on the [...]
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Aug 11, 14 | Marc Lapierre and The SuperFogeys |
May 18, 12 | Pg. 2 “Not Ready or Able” |
Nov 7, 16 | 711- Fallen Son |
Feb 8, 07 | 98 – The Wedding of Captain Spectacular and Star Maiden |
Sep 4, 13 | 532 – How Hard is the Rock Upon Which Stands Your Principles? |
COMMENTARY In the first panel there, you’ll notice a sign on the box that’s cut off. The full sign would read “Ark of the Covenant – Do Not Touch,” an obvious shout-out to Indiana Jones. The monster is another shout-out. This is my lame attempt at a tribute to the master of drawing monsters—Jack Kirby. [...]
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Jan 1, 09 | Guest Strip by Mark R. Engel of “Prematurely Disappointed!” |
Dec 3, 12 | 463 – May Percy Have a Pet? |
Jan 8, 14 | 561 – Blind Rage |
Oct 23, 08 | 174 – Big Mistake |
Jan 28, 07 | 88 – Who Smells Like Fish? |
COMMENTARY Look at the detail in that darkened warehouse! I kid. If you look closely at the third panel you’ll see that Dictator Tot has tossed aside a small device. I didn’t have room to explicitly state it, but the idea is that she was using that device to make it appear as though she [...]
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Mar 4, 10 | 246 – Righteous Kill |
Nov 2, 16 | 710 – Crimson Oils |
Feb 9, 07 | 99 – The Tale of How Captain Spectacular and Star Maiden Met and Married, Conclusion |
Aug 13, 09 | 220 – Don’t Act Like You Care |
Aug 17, 12 | Pg. 2 “Youthfulenergysupersurplus!” |
COMMENTARY Based on this strip, for some reason, a lot of people assumed that Captain Spectacular II is the son of Captain Spectacular. Such is not the case. I love, love, love the look of this one. I wish I got to play with colors like the more often, or, at least, that I was [...]
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Jun 1, 12 | Pg. 4 “The O’Hara Family Tragedy” |
Aug 1, 16 | 686 – Captain Spectacular’s Mighty Punch |
Aug 15, 16 | 690 – Name Calling |
Mar 11, 07 | 110 – Spanking |
Feb 3, 11 | 294 – Funny Ya Should Mention That |
COMMENTARY This strip originally without the “Clap! Clap!” at the end. It wasn’t until the day after I posted it that Th3rd World Publisher Mike DeVito suggested it and I redrew the last panel immediately. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the Captain’s hair is a character all its own. People were mostly confused [...]
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Mar 9, 12 | Pg. 3 “His Old Flame” |
Oct 13, 20 | 846 – Oh, He Dead |
Dec 24, 12 | Merry Christmas From The SuperFogeys! |
Nov 10, 06 | 38 – The Good Ol’ Days |
Jan 5, 10 | Guest Strip by Joe Cook of “Shattered Myth!” |
COMMENTARY This is the second appearance of the Bubbles of Light. No one questioned the first appearance back in Chapter 4 and I don’t really blame them. There wasn’t much to go on. Here we get a few more clues, leading to the obvious conclusion that Swifty—or at least some iteration of him—is time-traveling. The [...]
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Dec 17, 09 | 238 – Hello Everyone |
Sep 29, 11 | Chapter 6, “Funeral for a Frenemy” Recap by Crystal Murphy |
Jan 17, 07 | 72 – Dictator Tot’s Marching Orders |
Jan 28, 13 | 475 – Too Old For This |
Jun 30, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 20 “He Was a Noncombatant!” |
What a fun strip this was to work on. From the dialogue dance to the pure character illustration, I just love it. What I’m trying to do is say a lot about the relationship between Captain Spectacular and Spy Gal in very few frames. Up to you whether I succeeded or not. Captain Spectacular thinking [...]
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Sep 22, 06 | 1 – Introducing Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket! |
Sep 16, 10 | 276 – “Sweetie” |
Dec 7, 16 | 717 – The Fury of Soviet Sam |
Apr 5, 07 | 135 – The Tale of How Captain Spectacular Met Dr. Klein, Conclusion |
Feb 26, 09 | 197 – Requiem |
COMMENTARY The relationship between Spy Gal and Star Maiden is one of my most favorite things in the SuperFogeys, and I don’t spend nearly enough time on it. Spy Gal’s mothering instinct really comes out when she sees someone suffering and yet…she’s still Spy Gal. I think I could have drawn the light effect better [...]
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Jan 6, 09 | Guest Strip by T.L. Collins of “Bullfinch!” |
Mar 23, 07 | 122 – Who Will Jerry Fight? |
Apr 25, 12 | 406 – Spy Gal’s Wall of Evidence |
Apr 13, 11 | 307 – T-Magus |
Jun 30, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 20 “He Was a Noncombatant!” |
COMMENTARY The angry looks that the Space Pig and Tangerine are giving each are meant to suggest a fallout between them after the events of “The Secret Origin of the Space Pig” (which you can find in SuperFogreys Vol.1, on sale in the SF Store). Tangerine finally arriving at Valhalla was a long time in [...]
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Aug 31, 11 | 347 – Witch Fontana’s Fortunate Fortunes |
Jan 14, 10 | 239 – How Captain Spectacular Knows The Third Man |
Jan 15, 20 | 824 – Knives Out |
Jul 27, 11 | 337 – Naked Greed |
Aug 10, 11 | 341 – Stop |
COMMENTARY Tangerine’s body design presents some unique challenges. He doesn’t really have elbows (the way I draw him anyway) and he’s so much shorter than everybody else that whenever he appears it requires some rethinking of how I usually frame the characters in the panel. I thought long and hard about the use of the [...]
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Jul 1, 10 | 263 – What Happened to Star Maiden, Pt. 5 “A Parting Gift” |
Oct 23, 17 | 740 – Boop |
Oct 20, 20 | 848 – Organic Deodorant |
Jun 19, 08 | 140 – The Kindness of His Heart |
Nov 25, 08 | 182 – Someone Steps Forward (Bubbles of Light 3) |
COMMENTARY I felt like, with two and half years behind me and being in the middle of a complicated (in comparison, anyway), back-and-forth chapter like this one that I needed to take a minute to acknowledge just what the heck was going on. Spy Gal is admittedly making some leaps in logic here, but it’s [...]
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Nov 22, 17 | 749 – Caught in the Act |
Sep 21, 16 | 10th Anniversary BONUS STRIP 2! |
Mar 7, 18 | 769 – Weeping Wandering Fat Children |
Jun 3, 09 | The SuperFogeys Free Comic Book Day Page! |
COMMENTARY One of the more awkwardly organized strips I’ve done, design-wise. The balloons in the second panel just would not fit in a natural way. In comics, you generally want the person speaking first on the left side of the panel and the next person to the right of them and so on. Usually, I [...]
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Jul 3, 13 | 518 – The Last Secret |
Feb 8, 12 | 385 – Tiger Dung |
Dec 14, 11 | 371 – Leaving Las Vegas |
Dec 16, 11 | Pg. 5 “Full Power, Harvey!” |
Oct 21, 19 | 805 – Across the Mountaintop |
COMMENTARY When I created Tangerine about two years prior to the strips on this page being drawn, this strip and the one above were in my original notes. Tangerine’s entire personality was then extrapolated from these two conversations with Jerry. The Pink Shade is a character that gets referenced now and again, but her actual [...]
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Jan 6, 11 | Guest Strip by Marjorie Rishel |
Oct 17, 18 | HUGE NEWS! SuperFogeys Volume One—Inaction Heroes now on Kickstarter! |
Feb 17, 11 | 296 – Even Her |
May 16, 18 | 787 – Where to Start? |
Oct 7, 08 | 169 – Faker! |
Yes, that is my wife in the comic up above. I suppose this deserves a bit of explanation. We just got our new Mac a couple week ago. Macs are new to Erin and she was playing with the photo booth feature. She sent me one photo of herself (the one that constitutes the sixth [...]
COMMENTARY Arachno is supposed to be an analogue to Spider-Man. He’s probably too dead-on in name to every make an actual appearance, but he provides a good shorthand here to illustrate just how unusual the public turning against him was to the Captain. SUPERFOGEYS 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY This week marks the 2-year anniversary of both the [...]
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COMMENTARY This is maybe one of the most economical and tragic things I’ve ever written. Really, the intent was to begin really breaking down Tangerine’s character, but Captain Spectacular got swept up in that tide as well as we see his fatal character flaw—when things are going well, the Captain does just fine. When things [...]
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COMMENTARY I had to do a bit of a storytelling shuffle to keep Tangerine away from Dr. Rocket until this point in the story. I love his entrance here. In particular, I loved doing the growling drawing of Tangerine. The red color isn’t meant to suggest that Tangerine can actually turn red—it’s just an artistic [...]
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COMMENTARY One of my all-time favorite strips. Visually, I think this just works. I think I had just rewatched the movie Quiz Show shortly before writing this strip, so I had Geritol on the brain. Great movie. SUPERFOGEYS FALLING BEHIND IN WEBCOMIC READER’S CHOICE AWARDS The SuperFogeys need your help! Those of you that have [...]
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