THE ANNOTATED SUPERFOGEYS 260 I don’t think this strip will give you too much trouble if you haven’t read it, but if you want more background of these “new” characters from Star Maiden’s past, why not give her origin a read? I think you’ll be glad you did. THE PROBLEM WITH SUPERHEROES NOT PUBLISHED [...]
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HE’S NAKED! Ten points to whoever can remember the first time we saw a naked Captain Spectacular. Better provide a link if you wanna prove your superior intellect! Give it up to T.L. Collins for rendering this in fine fashion. I could look at his Soviet Sam all day. Having Captain Spectacular in there too [...]
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Apr 18, 11 | 308 – Time Displaced/Erased/No Taste |
Nov 18, 10 | 285 – Medical Centre |
Nov 26, 12 | 461 – He Escaped |
May 17, 08 | SF Collection #3 Cover |
Aug 1, 11 | 338 – The Flying Dragon |
STAR MAIDEN’S BIPOLAR TALE Confused? We’re in flashback mode here as Star Maiden tells the tale of a recent trip she made back to her home planet. She begins her tale here. If you’d like to find out more about Star Maiden and where she came from, be sure and check out her origin here! One note [...]
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Aug 12, 10 | 270 – Freakin’ Huge |
Sep 9, 13 | 533 – Mega Matt Tells It |
May 9, 11 | 314 – Dr. Rocket’s Space Journey, Pt. 3: The One He Truly Hunts |
Apr 2, 12 | 400 – Dark Maiden |
May 21, 09 | 209 – Coming to Jesus |
DR. ROCKET, THAT’S ONE TO GROW ON As you can all tell by now, this Soviet Sam story is serving multiple functions, the least of which (no, really, the LEAST) is to enlighten some SF moments past. This page in particular is important to me because, looking back, the Dr. Rocket circa Chapter 3 didn’t get [...]
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Sep 15, 14 | The Principle of Order |
Nov 20, 08 | 181 – The Thrice Evil |
Aug 19, 11 | Pg. 5 “Why She Left” |
Aug 27, 12 | 439 – So IMPOLITE! |
Jan 11, 10 | Guest Strip by Bearman of “Bearman Cartoons!” |
UPDATED!! WHAT HAPPENED WITH TODAY’S STRIP?? IT LOOKS…NAKED Okay, there it is! SF 262 – The Fully Clothed Edition. Thanks for your patience everyone. For those of you that missed it, no worries. The Naked Edition was kind of ugly. Original post as follows… There are not very many things that will stop me from [...]
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Dec 18, 08 | 189 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 6 “The Medallion” |
May 14, 09 | 208 – Grab the Tush |
Feb 8, 11 | Pg. 2 “New Designer in Town” |
May 27, 11 | Pg. 7 “In the Future” |
Mar 11, 13 | 487 – Innocent Travelers |
THIS DEPRESSING MOMENT IN THE LIFE OF SOVIET SAM BROUGHT TO YOU BY… T.L. Collins! Blame him if the rest of your day is a bummer because of this. He was the one who wanted to do a Soviet Sam story. (But seriously, how perfectly is he nailing the emotion of these scenes? Just great [...]
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Jul 14, 22 | 906 – He Looks Different |
Jun 3, 09 | The SuperFogeys Free Comic Book Day Page! |
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Dec 15, 20 | 862 – That’s It!? |
BREAKING NEWS: MONSTERPLEX IS DEAD Today, quite unexpectedly, Zuda comics, the webcomics arm of DC Comics, shut down, taking my February Competition-winning comic, Monsterplex with it. Full explanation and details and thanks in this Monsterplex blog. NEW GOO. BLUE GOO. GOOEY. GOOEY. Forgive me, I’ve been a single parent to Cami this week and there’s nothing [...]
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Mar 23, 07 | 122 – Who Will Jerry Fight? |
Dec 24, 12 | Merry Christmas From The SuperFogeys! |
Mar 27, 07 | 126 – Who the @#$% is the Third Man? |
Mar 16, 07 | 115 – Star Maiden Flattens Dr. Rocket |
Aug 24, 12 | Pg. 3 “Crybabies” |
THE RETURN OF DEATH, M.D.! Been a while since we’ve seen our good friend Death, M.D. I love this guy. He just takes so much delight in his job. Who among us gets to say that? You gotta respect that. T.L. Collins informs that he really dug drawing this page, and Death, M.D. in particular. I [...]
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Sep 30, 10 | 278 – The Others |
Feb 19, 20 | 832 – The Power of Percy |
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Apr 21, 14 | 588 – In the Dark, Where He Thinks He Belongs |
Nov 6, 19 | 810 – Meanwhile, In Las Vegas |
STAR MAIDEN’S MINI-ARC COMES TO A CLOSE… This Star Maiden story I’ve been telling for the past month or so is one that I’ve been looking forward to sharing for a long, long time. I first had the vague notion of what was wrong with her back around the time she was first introduced in [...]
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May 27, 11 | Pg. 7 “In the Future” |
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Aug 31, 12 | Pg. 4 “Crib Cage” |
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: T.L. COLLINS ENDS HIS RUN ON SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS I knew this day was coming, but I was hoping to put it off as long as possible. T.L. was the artist that made SuperFogeys Origins possible. The first to say yes and the only one to take it on as a regular gig. Without [...]
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Oct 15, 09 | 229 – Father and Tom |
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Jan 5, 21 | 864 – Walking the Dark Side |
Jan 8, 10 | Guest Strip by Cory Thomas of “Watch Your Head!” |
Aug 9, 22 | 913 – Any Questions? |
THE ANNOTATED SUPERFOGEYS 265 Been a while since we heard from Tangerine, so here’s a little primer, with links: • After coming to Valhalla, Big T wasted no time in killing the shape-shifter Herman, then disguised as the villain Dr. Rocket. • Now incarcerated in a the Valhalla dungeon, he was visited by Captain Spectacular and told him something [...]
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Jan 2, 07 | 61 – Dictator Tot in Hel |
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Nov 2, 06 | 30 – B-I-N-G-O |
Sep 9, 13 | 533 – Mega Matt Tells It |
WELCOME TO SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS, CORY THOMAS! If there’s one thing the SuperFogeys is known for, it’s action. Strike that. Opposite of that. Action is exactly what’s going to make “Spy Gal’s Secret Mission”–a mostly silent tale–so special. It’s an experiment I hope you enjoy as much as we do. Cory, artist and colorist of this short, [...]
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Oct 24, 16 | 707 – Demise |
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Dec 14, 16 | 719 – It’s Easy When You Know How |
THE BIBLE Wouldn’t you love to be in a book club with Tangerine? REMINDER! COMIC-CON! AND…BOOKMARKS! Just a quick reminder that I’ll be at the San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. This is the big one. I’ll be speaking at the Digital Comics panel inRoom 7AB on Friday at 11:30am. There will be a Q&A, so [...]
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Jan 26, 07 | 84 – You Don’t Mess with Dr. Klein |
Apr 29, 10 | 254 – Why Kill An Innocent? |
Mar 21, 11 | The SuperFogeys 2011 Teaser |
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Nov 4, 06 | 32 – Bingo Night Begins |
SILENT RUNNING So. Much. Violence. Kids, turn away. Today’s break from verbosity comes to us courtesy of Cory Thomas, the creator of Watch Your Head. Watch it now! IN SATURDAY’S LOCAL NEWS…WEBCOMIC ARTIST CONFUSES READERSHIP WITH OLD SCHOOL ATTIRE, NEW SCHOOL CREATIVITY Last week I told you about an interview I did with Mike Osgueda at [...]
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Aug 6, 09 | 219 – Bubbles of Light 5 |
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Apr 5, 07 | 135 – The Tale of How Captain Spectacular Met Dr. Klein, Conclusion |
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PANTSLESSNESS IS HAPPINESS Remember the first time we found out that Captain Spectacular doesn’t like to wear pants? Good times. And it’s not like that was the last time a no pants joke was made. You know what we need? A pantsless Captain Spectacular jokes compendium. IMPORTANT! THE AUGUST SUPERFOGEYS SCHEDULE You say you [...]
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Jan 29, 20 | 828 – Sorry About the Torture |
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Jul 16, 14 | 610 – Do the most you can do. |
DON’T MESS WITH SPY GAL. SERIOUSLY. OR CORY THOMAS. Without any speedlines or sound fx, Cory Thomas has perfectly captured Spy Gal’s journey downward to the door to the unseen person who speaks the first words of this up-til-now silent tale. That’s quite the feat. Hats off to you, Cory. Can’t wait to see what you [...]
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Aug 23, 22 | 917 – The New Valhalla |
I’M AHEAD OF SCHEDULE…FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TWO YEARS. SERIOUSLY. As many of you already know, I pretty much never work ahead. I PLAN ahead–years into the future. But I don’t work ahead. The new strips you see are usually completed about 6 or 7 hours before you see them. It’s often just that [...]
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Jan 4, 17 | 723 – Ascendant |
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WELCOME TO A SPECIAL MONDAY SUPERFOGEYS UPDATE! This is it! The beginning of a substantial increase in updates for the month of August. Check the schedule below to see how it all shakes out. UPDATED AUGUST SCHEDULE Tuesday, Aug. 10 – SF Origins: Spy Gal’s Secret Mission, pg. 4 (final page) Thursday, Aug. 12 – [...]
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Jan 30, 12 | 382 – A Better Question |
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Dec 3, 14 | 642 – A Star Falls |
THE ANNOTATED SPY GAL’S SECRET MISSION This was a story that was a bit of an experiment and was a challenge for both me and artist Cory Thomas (Go read Watch Your Head!) If you can’t tell already (and if you can’t then you must be brand, brand new to the strip–hey, welcome!), I kind [...]
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Dec 9, 10 | 288 – Fill Me In |
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May 30, 12 | 416 – Alcohol is His Kryptonite |
Nov 12, 12 | 457 – Again, He Soars |
UPDATE! BRAND NEW INTERVIEW! This week I had a chance to get together with Holiday Wars writer and blogger supreme Scott King to talk about SuperFogeys in a whole new way. Not only did we talk a lot about the upcoming big reveal next week, but we went in depth into my writing process, the themes of [...]
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Jan 10, 18 | 753 – What She’d Like to Know |
Feb 3, 11 | 294 – Funny Ya Should Mention That |
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Sep 2, 15 | 677 – His Greatest Creation |
THE BIGGEST WEEK FOR SUPERFOGEYS…EVER. THIS IS IT! Today begins a short run of four consecutive update days, all leading into the big, triple-sized ending to Chapter 9, Head Games. Tell the neighbors and gather the kids. This is the big one. If you’re new to the SuperFogeys, welcome. You’ve come in at the just the right [...]
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Sep 14, 12 | Pg. 6 “Who Could Have Done This?” |
May 3, 08 | 86 – WebSpace Page: Jerry |
Jul 14, 22 | 906 – He Looks Different |
Aug 5, 15 | 665 – All Out of Coffee and Goats |
Aug 24, 12 | Pg. 3 “Crybabies” |
THE SUPERFOGEYS CALL-IN SHOW IS TONIGHT! Tonight, at 8pm PST, I’ll be the featured guest on the TGT Webcomics Podast for their very first Call-in Show. This will your opportunity to talk with me, live, and ask any questions you’d like as we gear up for the big ending to Chapter 9. I admit to [...]
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Aug 20, 18 | Swifty Origin, Pg. 12 “Party Hard” |
Jul 25, 11 | 336 – Walking Diagonally |
Feb 16, 21 | 874 – The One True |
Jun 27, 12 | 424 – Somebody That He Used to Know |
Aug 24, 15 | 673 – Captain Spectacular’s New Duds |
IF YOU READ ONE SUPERFOGEYS COMIC THIS YEAR… It must be tomorrow’s comic! Everything you’ve seen thus far has been leading to what you’re going to see tomorrow. And everything you see after tomorrow will come from SuperFogeys 273 – “All is Revealed.” You don’t want to miss it. New to the SuperFogeys? Chapter One [...]
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Mar 23, 12 | Pg. 5 “Where Are The Unicef Upstarts?” |
Oct 20, 14 | 629 – Freaky Differences |
Oct 1, 15 | Chapter 21 Teaser! |
Aug 5, 13 | 523 – The Big Slam |
Jan 30, 17 | 730 – Broken Sam |
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Aug 12, 10 | 270 – Freakin’ Huge |
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Jul 21, 22 | 908 – Torture |
Jul 11, 11 | 332 – Captain Spectacular’s Buds |
SILENCE IS BROKEN Welcome back, everyone! Man, last week. Last week was what I have been waiting for and working towards ever since I decided to make this little comic called SuperFogeys into an ongoing thing. I sweated and fretted over whether or not I could keep the secret and worried that, after all that work, [...]
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Sep 28, 12 | GUEST STRIP by Crystal Murphy, Summer Fun Pt. 4 |
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Feb 1, 12 | 383 – Jackpot. |
WHAT IS THIS? Well, this is SuperFogeys Origins. In content if not format. For the vast majority of you, this is the first time you’re seeing Operation: Valhalla. Originally, this story was written for and appeared in the now-out-of-print first SuperFogeys collection and this is the first time it has ever appeared in its complete form [...]
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Nov 6, 13 | 546 – Tangerine Makes a Decision |
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SF Origins: Operation: Valhalla, No. 2 “Interrupting Tea Time”
by Brock Heasley on August 25th, 2010THE ANNOTATED OPERATION: VALHALLA NO.2 If you’re just joining us, this is part two of the DIRECT SuperFogeys prequel, Operation: Valhalla. This is actually the first true appearance of the Third Man as this story came out in print before his online appearance in Chapter 3, “The Techno Shuffle.” We’ve also seen that this was not [...]
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SF Origins: Operation: Valhalla, No. 3 “Tangerine’s Tendencies”
by Brock Heasley on August 26th, 2010THE IMPORTANCE OF OPERATION: VALHALLA With today’s strip you can finally now see how this story begins to tie into SuperFogeys Chapter One. This is the real reason I wrote the story in the first place–to show that the Third Man knew what he was doing and what he wanted from the very beginning. There [...]
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MONSTERPLEX IS BACK! I’ve been promising for a while now that my Zuda-winning/Zuda-booted comic, Monsterplex, would be coming back–at least enough so I can show you all the work we did that you never got to see. If you head on over to the Monsterplex blog right now you’ll see that I’ve begun posting those [...]
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WELCOME TO A SPECIAL SATURDAY UPDATE! This is the penultimate strip of Operation: Valhalla – The DIRECT SuperFogeys Prequel. Hope you all have been digging it so far. This is the first appearance of Spy Gal’s family, but most of you will remember them from Chapter 7, Visiting Day. Last strip of this story is tomorrow, see you [...]
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OPERATION: VALHALLA ENDS HERE! And now you see how it all began. This strip was tricky. It’s the only one that I can remember that has both Jerry and Dr. Klein in it at the same time. The artist, Mike Hartigan, had no clue about the link between them and, for some reason, removed the [...]
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WELCOME TO SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS, LEE CHEROLIS! For you new readers (and there have been a lot of you lately), Back in May of this year I ran a contest to see choose who would draw the next, great origin–Spy Gal’s. Over the course of several weeks, many wonderful artists submitted their own version of Spy [...]
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Jun 19, 15 | 645 – Say the Name Correctly, Idiot |
BUBBLES OF LIGHT BEGINS NOW! Welcome to Chapter 10 of the SuperFogeys, Bubbles of Light. If chapters 1-5 are Volume One (available for sale in print here), and chapters 6-9 are Volume 2 (available in print pending demand!), then today officially kicks off Volume 3! I don’t want to say too much about what this chapter [...]
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Sep 14, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal, Pg. 3 “She Dead” |
Oct 29, 12 | 453 – Buried Weapons |
Jul 31, 15 | 663 – Pandora’s Box |
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LEE CHEROLIS STEPS UP HIS GAME! How beautiful is that page? I’ll admit I wasn’t entirely sure about Lee’s approach to color on this art–it’s a lot stronger than what I’m used to. But I gotta say my reservations were unfounded. He knows his art well and this is just firing on all cylinders. And [...]
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MONSTERPLEX IS OVER All of the unseen Monsterplex (my Zuda Winning/Zuda Booted comic, co-created with David Schlotterback and colored by Michael DeVito) pages are now out there for your consumption, along with two unproduced script pages. Head on over to monsterplex.com and lament what might have been! CHARACTERS PAGE UPDATED Do you use the handy [...]
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GORGEOUS PAGE I’ve just been really knocked out by the work Lee Cherolis has been doing on the art for this story. Hope you guys agree. See you on Thursday with SuperFogeys 276! A special visitor is coming to Valhalla…
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A SURPRISE VISITOR! Yeah, you all tried to guess who it was going to be and no one got it right. But I set you up for failure. I’m mean like that. Today’s strip kicks Bubbles of Light into high gear. Crazy fun ahead. THE SUPERFOGEYS AT RECESS Was hanging out with my daughter Elora (7-years-old [...]
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THE THING THAT AMAZES ME ABOUT THE WORK THAT LEE CHEROLIS IS DOING ON THIS ORIGIN… …is how wonderful the color is. The pages look one way in their black and white form, but then Lee adds all kinds of dimension and details with his color. It really is the whole package. Too often in [...]
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Jan 25, 12 | 381 – Shut Up |
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YOUNG SPY GAL If you’d like to know more about Spy Gal’s younger years, might I recommend her origin, currently running on Tuesdays in SuperFogeys Origins with art by the talented Lee Cherolis? Check it out right now! CHANGE IN THE APPROACH TO THE COLORING I don’t know if any of you noticed, but this week [...]
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IS IT HOT IN HERE? Greeting, SuperFans! I do believe the sexy quotient has gone up considerably today. Blame the amazing Spy Gal origin artist Lee Cherolis. And me. A little. I mean, I guess I wrote it. I think we’re skirting the edge of acceptable content here, but we don’t do these things for no [...]
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Mar 16, 21 | 882 – Says You |
REMIND ME TO DO/NOT DO THAT AGAIN… Today’s strip is another example of a time when my reach has exceeded my grasp. As both writer and artist, I have the luxury of scripting things that I know I can draw. But, every once in a while, I bring the story to a point where I [...]
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SF Origins: Spy Gal, Pg. 6 “The Lips That Should Not Be Touched”
by Brock Heasley on October 5th, 2010SUPERFOGEYS TURNS FOUR, I TURN TO YOU In case you missed it (I did), the SuperFogeys turned four last month, on the 22nd of September. September 22nd, 2006 was the first day I ever posted a SF strip online–on MySpace, if you can believe it. And now here we are. I’ve reached the point in [...]
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Oct 1, 15 | Chapter 21 Teaser! |
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Aug 5, 08 | 151 – Peanut Butter Cookies |
UPDATE! READER GREG BULMASH BREAKS IT DOWN! I’ve gotta thank Greg for this. He posted it earlier today in the comments and it just made me smile. He puts the point across in a way that I, as the person asking for the donation, would be too ashamed to. So just know that I didn’t [...]
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PAGE 7, “BOOM” In a lot of ways this is my favorite page of this story. I think that’s true for Lee as well. I think it’s fair to say that we’ve gone into some uncharted territory here (for The SuperFogeys) and that’s kind of fun to see. Don’t you think? WALLPAPER AND DONATIONS UPDATE Well, [...]
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Jul 25, 14 | Pg. 4 “Daddy’s Little Girl Packs a Punch” |
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Feb 15, 11 | Pg. 3 “For The Girls” |
THE THIRD GIRL After 21 weeks, my wife and I have finally decided to make the impending arrival of our third child and girl public knowledge. She’ll be arriving on February 18th of next year and we’re incredibly happy about it. How this impacts the SuperFogeys remains to be seen…but don’t worry, I’m taking measures! [...]
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Jan 6, 09 | Guest Strip by T.L. Collins of “Bullfinch!” |
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THE SPY GAL ORIGIN ENTERS ITS LAST ACT We’re in the home stretch now! Just 3 more pages after this one and then You’ll know everything you need to know about Spy Gal before she joined the Society of Heroes (if not everything there IS to know). The amazing art is, always, by Lee Cherolis who [...]
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WORKING BACKWARDS Typically, I write a script before drawing a strip. That’s logical, right? Well, with this one, for whatever reason, I drew it first. Oh sure, I had an idea about what the strip should be about. I always outline chapters strip-by-strip. I think my outline for this strip was something like “Captain Spectacular [...]
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UPDATE! THE SPY GAL FAN ART YOU HAVE TO SEE! This is just came across my inbox. Inspired by your comments on today’s Spy Gal page, SuperFan Gwen Patton (the creative force behind Jenny Everywhere’s Infinite: Quark Time) came up with this fan art featuring Spy Gal eating fried chicken. Gwen calls this a new [...]
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THE ANNOTATED SUPERFOGEYS 282 Finally, finally, finally. Future Swifty reaches his destination. It’s been a long road getting to this moment, so for those of you who need a little primer, let’s chart Future Swifty’s past appearances (appearances are in the order in which they appeared on the site–it’s debatable whether Future Swifty experienced them [...]
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Jun 12, 13 | 512 – The Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened to Swifty |
Aug 6, 18 | Swifty Origin, Pg. 10 “The Heart” |
Sep 3, 09 | 223 – On Your Marks… |
NOT THE LAST PAGE…BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN One of the things Lee did after he read my script for the Spy Gal Origin was to immediately demand that we split the last page into two. My challenge as a writer is always to script these things into the number of pages the artist is willing [...]
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Aug 15, 11 | 342 – The Wrong Man |
Oct 14, 08 | 171 – Hello, Karma |
Sep 21, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal, Pg. 4 “The Best Day Ever, Ever” |
Nov 10, 09 | SF Origins: Spy Gal vs. Star Maiden, Pg. 2 “Girlfight” |
Aug 10, 12 | Pg. 1 “Baby Hands” |
NEXT WEEK: On Tuesday, the Spy Gal Origin reaches its big finish! A big deal? Oh yes. Don’t miss it. Then, on Thursday, Gina Galloway sets the Fogeys and their younger counterparts on their way. Way to what, you ask? You’ll see.
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Oct 7, 11 | Chapter 12, “Jackpot!” Recap by Steve VanDyken |
Jul 25, 11 | 336 – Walking Diagonally |
Oct 4, 11 | Chapter 9, “Head Games” Recap by Eric Merritt |
Jan 1, 10 | Guest Strip by Chris Watkins of “Odori Park!” |
Dec 10, 09 | 237 – A Surprise Visitor |
THE SPY GAL ORIGIN COMES TO A CLOSE How about a big round of applause for Lee Cherolis for the great job he did on this story? From the Spy Gal Art Contest in May until now, it’s been a long road for Lee to get to this point and I for one think did a [...]
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Aug 1, 14 | Pg. 5 “Many Doors, All Locked” |
Jan 21, 13 | 473 – Monkey Rain |
Aug 27, 10 | SF Origins: Operation: Valhalla, No. 4 “Talking Turnips” |
Jul 13, 10 | SF Origins: The Life and Times of Soviet Sam, Pg. 8 “Sweet Dreams” |
Aug 31, 15 | 676 – Jerry, Meet Thrice Evil |
THE 2ND ANNUAL VERY MERRY GUEST STRIPPIN’ CHRISTMAS! Man, what a year, right? Can’t believe it’s the end of year already. As per usual, I’ll be taking a week or two off around Christmas to spend time with my family and recharge my batteries a bit. This has been a heckuva year for SF, with [...]
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Dec 25, 08 | Merry Christmas From The SuperFogeys (2008) |
Sep 9, 11 | Pg. 1 “Blood on the Table” |
Jun 11, 09 | 211 – Shrinking Your Carbon Footprint |
May 17, 22 | 889 – So Much Love to Share |
Dec 2, 11 | Pg. 3 “Enter The Space Pig” |
SF Origins: The Death of Mr. Crook, Pg. 1 “Lights On, Lights Off”
by Brock Heasley on November 16th, 2010MR. CROOK CAN’T CATCH A BREAK! Oft-neglected but never forgotten, Mr. Crook is one of those characters that you hear more about than you actually see. As anyone who has read Chapter 1 knows, Mr. Crook died 2 weeks before Spy Gal came to Valhalla. But, until now, we’ve never known how he died. To get to [...]
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I WROTE THE WORDS “THE END” For those of you keeping score at home, it was 23 months ago that I announced I’d be cutting the regular SuperFogeys strip back to once a week. This was the move that inspired the creation of SuperFogeys Origins. The reason for the schedule change was to allow me time [...]
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Oct 24, 12 | 452 – Book of Mormon Story |
Jul 14, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 22 “The Society of Heroes” |
Mar 16, 12 | Pg. 4 “An Unexpected Cellmate” |
May 5, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 12 “Date or Fight?” |
Feb 25, 10 | 245 – One Week Later |
SF Origins: The Death of Mr. Crook, Pg. 2 “Just Like Everybody Else”
by Brock Heasley on November 23rd, 2010MASSIVE SUPERFOGEYS VOL. 1 PRICE DROP FOR THE HOLIDAYS! Don’t have SuperFogeys Vol. 1 yet? Looking for a great gift idea? Just in time for the holidays, the price on SuperFogeys Vol. 1 Regular and Artist editions have been slashed by $5! Check out what a measly $14.99(+shipping) will get you: The first five chapters of the [...]
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Jan 9, 07 | 65 – Co-Conspirators |
Jan 30, 07 | 90 – Introducing Star Maiden! |
Nov 16, 10 | SF Origins: The Death of Mr. Crook, Pg. 1 “Lights On, Lights Off” |
Jan 12, 07 | 67 – Dr. Rocket Draws a Webcomic? |
Apr 21, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 10 “The Lodge of Doom” |
HAPPY THANKSGIVING (MY AMERICAN FRIENDS)! Today is Turkey Day in the U.S. and my day will be spent going off-diet and not online a whole lot. If you’re reading this on Thursday you’re one of the dedicated and as a special treat (actually, your mileage may vary on that), here’s a link to an excerpt from [...]
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Nov 19, 06 | 47 – Bingo Knight! |
Feb 22, 12 | 389 – The Invisible Pain |
Jan 7, 21 | 865 – Balance |
Apr 1, 11 | Pg. 9 “Always” |
Aug 14, 20 | 845 – Better and Better |
SF Origins: The Death of Mr. Crook, Pg. 3 “A Man Dies, An Idea is Born”
by Brock Heasley on November 30th, 2010THANK YOU, MICHAEL ODOM! I love this little 3-pager. I know you guys kind of run hot and cold on the smaller, lighter stories, but I love them both because they provide a breather and because they’re always a chance for me to experiment a little. Whether it’s to try my hand at a twisted version [...]
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Nov 2, 06 | 30 – B-I-N-G-O |
Jul 23, 09 | 217 – Jerry’s Family? |
Feb 17, 11 | 296 – Even Her |
Oct 16, 06 | 23 – The Incontinent Duo |
Apr 25, 12 | 406 – Spy Gal’s Wall of Evidence |
MONSTER I’ll tell you what’s a monster–THIS STRIP! I knew for a while how I wanted to handle the monster, but when it came to doing it–that was another bit of business altogether. This reminded me a lot of my first foray into comics making with the art of inking. I really love inking other [...]
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Aug 23, 22 | 917 – The New Valhalla |
Feb 26, 20 | 834 – Percy Makes a Choice |
Feb 22, 12 | 389 – The Invisible Pain |
Oct 3, 11 | Chapter 8, “The Captain and the Spy” Recap by Nick Perkins |
Aug 6, 14 | 616 – One of Zurida’s |
WELCOME TO SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS, STEVE OGDEN! If you don’t know the name Steve Ogden, then you’re missing out on one of the most beautiful webcomics out there,Moon Town. Steve is a class act who can do it all–write, letter, draw, ink, and color. In fact, this is only the second Origins tale that I myself [...]