This first strip in chapter 2 is all about setting up the game and introducing Dr. Klein, an obviously important figure at Valhalla. When I started the SuperFogeys, I always had it in the back of my mind that I would need to create a “man-in-charge” at some point. Dr. Klein, with his german name [...]
Archive for ‘Chapter 02 – Bingo Night’
I love Spy Gal. It’s probably the adolescent schoolboy in me, but I have a lot of fun teasing her and putting her in some horrible situations. It’s always fun to see what she’ll do. Gene is the stand-in for my fifteen-year-old self. And, in case you can’t make it out, the book Spy Gal [...]
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Oct 5, 11 | Chapter 10, “Bubbles of Light” Recap by Danny Burleson |
Jun 26, 13 | 516 – Time to Clean House |
Jan 25, 12 | 381 – Shut Up |
Jan 15, 07 | 70 – Gene and Dictator Tot Reunite |
One of the better-paced strips I’ve done (or so I’ve been told) and a solid, economical reintroduction to three of the main characters.
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Jan 4, 12 | 375 – In The Zone |
Feb 6, 07 | 96 – Portal? |
Apr 8, 11 | Cover |
Feb 19, 18 | 764 – Meanwhile, Inside Dr. Rocket’s Bedchamber |
May 21, 09 | 209 – Coming to Jesus |
Some people thought Dr. Klein’s look in the third panel coupled with his German name mean that Dr. Klein is evil. I won’t comment on the prejudices of my readership, but I will say that I did not have that in mind when I drew it. I was just experimenting with what I could do [...]
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Nov 15, 17 | 747 – The Popped Grape |
Oct 3, 06 | 11 – The Power Dampener |
Aug 26, 13 | 529 – Why Did Jerry Do It? |
Sep 26, 06 | 5 – The Urine of What!? |
Jul 9, 08 | Guest Strip by Rufus Edge of “comicdeoxyribonucleicacid!” |
Ugh. This is my failed experiment. Like Strip 25, I had two ideas for a strip and tried to make them into one. As drawn, panel 3 preceded panel 2, but at the last minute I got the idea to integrate them more. It didn’t work. Not helping matters is the last panel. For the [...]
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Mar 11, 10 | 247 – Not a Busload of Strangers |
Nov 1, 06 | 29 – Introducing Dr. Klein! |
Oct 20, 14 | 629 – Freaky Differences |
Dec 2, 08 | 184 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 1 “Laban and Amram” |
Jan 18, 11 | SF Origins: The Thrice Evil, Pg. 5 “Hungry” |
Like Spy Gal in Chapter 1, I had spent two strips building up the arrival of the Healer. I wanted his entrance to be important and surprising. Originally, the Healer was going to be an old man in a cloak. Much more like Dr. Strange or something like that. After being comfortable with that for [...]
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Mar 12, 07 | 111 – Forgive Dr. Rocket |
Nov 17, 20 | 856 – Grab That Rabbit! |
Dec 29, 10 | Guest Strip by Javier Del Villar (Extra) |
Dec 21, 12 | Guest Strip by Crystal Murphy! |
Jan 21, 07 | 81 – Jerry Denied! |
The SuperFogeys are so stiff and immobile, it was fun to cut loose a little on a character like the Healer. I made it double-sized because I wanted the figures to breathe a little and see what I could do with a character who is real expressive. There’s some good lines in this one (Dr. [...]
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More Healer nonsense. You can see how my camera is really changing up now. I’ve left behind almost completely the cut/paste of the previous chapter, something I was real glad to do. The Space Pig is always fun to bring back. There’s no way to explain him and his function every time out, so I [...]
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Jan 28, 07 | 88 – Who Smells Like Fish? |
Mar 31, 07 | 130 – When Pigs Fly |
Jul 8, 11 | Pg. 13 “A Tree Falls in the Forest…” |
Mar 26, 12 | 398 – Rookie Hero Move |
Aug 30, 22 | 919 – The More Things Change… |
I hate the first panel of this one. CS and Spy Gal just don’t look right and I don’t know what I was thinking. The entire point of this strip was to establish that Spy Gal is attracted to Dr. Klein. I don’t do anything more with it for the whole of Chapter 2, but [...]
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Jun 17, 08 | 139 – Jerry’s Fate Revealed |
Oct 5, 16 | 704 – Ankle Biters |
Oct 19, 12 | Pg. 9 “Let’s Go!” |
Dec 23, 11 | Pg. 6 “Battle in the Skies” |
Oct 8, 12 | 447 – Enemy Target Identified |
This is a strip I’m really proud of. It’s very much a side-trip from the main story, but I think it’s poignant in a way that SuperFogeys hasn’t been up until now. While writing the SuperFogeys, I often have to ask myself, “What will it be like when I’m old?” I guess this is one [...]
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Oct 13, 06 | 20 – Worse Than He Thought |
Nov 17, 20 | 856 – Grab That Rabbit! |
Sep 24, 09 | 226 – The Deal is Off |
Oct 7, 06 | 14 – Watchin’ TV |
Jerry was late to the party because I needed to remind the audience of his feelings for Spy Gal. I’m sure there was a better way to do that. Not a favorite of mine.
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May 1, 08 | 101 – WebSpace Page: Captain Spectacular |
Jun 28, 22 | 901 – Vanished |
Jun 22, 12 | Pg. 2 “Doppelgangers” |
Apr 14, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 9 “Press Conference” |
Sep 9, 19 | 798 – A Dark Past, A Questionable Present |
I knew the back half of this chapter would be light on the Swifty, so I wanted to make sure his last time in the spotlight was a memorable one. Everyone seems to have a different favorite Swifty ailment, but the one I like the best (and the first one I wrote) is the one [...]
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Jan 28, 13 | 475 – Too Old For This |
Mar 12, 12 | 394 – The Bottom Drops Out |
Apr 5, 07 | 135 – The Tale of How Captain Spectacular Met Dr. Klein, Conclusion |
Jan 30, 17 | 730 – Broken Sam |
Dec 10, 12 | 465 – Lip Lick |
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Jan 26, 07 | 84 – You Don’t Mess with Dr. Klein |
Jun 16, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 18 “KAPOW!” |
Mar 31, 07 | 130 – When Pigs Fly |
Jul 17, 15 | 657 – The Most Difficult Thing Swifty Has Ever Done |
Feb 11, 21 | 873 – Against the Wall |
Yeah, I did a Viagra joke. You almost have to, given the subject matter. I think I did it in the best possible way. It was important to me to have the Healer is so disapproving and grossed out. I think that’s how we all felt the first time we saw Bob Dole talking about [...]
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May 25, 12 | Pg. 3 “A Couple of Brothers” |
Mar 13, 11 | 299 – Why The Hospital |
Dec 7, 06 | 56 – Dr. Rocket Will Have His Revenge |
Dec 16, 11 | Pg. 5 “Full Power, Harvey!” |
Apr 13, 11 | 307 – T-Magus |
I had been looking for an excuse to do a single-panel strip for a long time and this conclusion of the Healer’s interviews with all the SuperFogeys was a good excuse for it. Originally, the dialogue on this one was vastly different. It was a back and forth between the Healer and the Captain; none [...]
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Feb 14, 18 | 763 – Serious Issues |
Mar 12, 12 | 394 – The Bottom Drops Out |
Dec 9, 06 | 58 – Jerry’s Single Chest Hair |
Sep 25, 12 | GUEST STRIP by Crystal Murphy, Summer Fun Pt. 1! |
44 – Beginning the Tale of How Captain Spectacular was Paralyzed
by Brock Heasley on November 16th, 2006This is one of those connecting strips that I didn’t know I needed until I did. Strip 45 was always a story I was going to tell, but before I got to that story I realized that I had nothing leading into it. What would be Dr. Rocket’s final scheme? Why, bunnies of course. Why [...]
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Sep 25, 12 | GUEST STRIP by Crystal Murphy, Summer Fun Pt. 1! |
Dec 18, 19 | 820 – Heart-Stopping Great Looks |
Jan 10, 07 | 66 – Captain Spectacular’s Fear of Modern Technology |
Oct 10, 11 | 353 – SHWABOOM!! |
Mar 16, 07 | 115 – Star Maiden Flattens Dr. Rocket |
45 – The Tale of How Captain Spectacular was Paralyzed, Conclusion
by Brock Heasley on November 17th, 2006See the bunny? I liked the idea that Dr. Rocket kept one bunny for himself. Of course it begs the question…what happened to the bunny? That answer is coming in Chapter 6. This strip took a little longer than your average strip. In the end, I think I probably pumped a little too much detail [...]
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Mar 31, 12 | Pg. 6 “Find the Sharp Metal Instrument” |
Mar 17, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 5 “Prison Stripes” |
Feb 25, 10 | 245 – One Week Later |
May 28, 09 | 210 – What Happens Next |
Another “ugh” strip for me. I have a real problem with drawing too big for the panel. I truly need to zoom the camera out more. The Healer declaring the Captain the winner without checking the score should come across as a bit strange. He’s just being too nice. It’s the first hint there might [...]
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May 9, 12 | 410 – Attack of the Space Monkeys |
Sep 29, 11 | Chapter 6, “Funeral for a Frenemy” Recap by Crystal Murphy |
Dec 29, 11 | Guest Strip by Marjorie Rishel! |
Feb 6, 13 | 478 – What If Money Man Had Lived? |
Jan 11, 10 | Guest Strip by Bearman of “Bearman Cartoons!” |
I absolutely love this strip. This is a case of art elevating the script. On paper, this one didn’t seem like it would be much. If anything, I felt like I was trying to do too much. However…I think it works. Bingo Knight was a character name given to me by a reader of my [...]
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Mar 18, 20 | 840 – Twice the Thrice |
Sep 9, 19 | 798 – A Dark Past, A Questionable Present |
Mar 31, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 7 “Good Looks Good on You” |
Feb 5, 20 | 830 – Literary Twist |
Mar 11, 20 | 838 – The Situation |
Bingo Knight’s design came from the idea that he is essentially a super accountant. I mean, a super hero who settles Bingo scores? How could he be anything BUT an accountant? Once I knew that, all I had to do was put a dorky guy in a Knight costume and the idea sold itself.
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Jan 27, 20 | 827 – Lay Her Down |
Apr 24, 13 | 500 – What Should Not Be |
Dec 12, 16 | 718 – What is Deserved |
Oct 20, 20 | 848 – Organic Deodorant |
Dec 28, 09 | Guest Strip by Don Oskowski of “Conduit Flux!” |
I don’t know how much this strip actually adds to the plot, but it makes me laugh and sometimes that’s enough. A genuinely well-drawn Spy Gal in this strip, I think. She’s a tough one to draw just right and I always have a hard time with her hair.
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Oct 12, 12 | Pg. 8 “Gross Fetuses” |
Dec 9, 19 | 817 – Master Masticate Stands with Fork Ready |
Sep 12, 14 | Pg. 10 – Breaking Free |
Sep 21, 16 | 10th Anniversary BONUS STRIP 2! |
Oct 30, 13 | 544 – Whose Mess Is It, Anyway? |
I tried and tried to not make this one a double-sized. I had just done one and I didn’t want to take the time to do another one, but there just wasn’t any other way to make it work. Too many characters all interacting with each other. It has been said that this is one [...]
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Sep 30, 10 | 278 – The Others |
Nov 27, 17 | 750 – The Big Slap |
May 6, 13 | 501 – New Age Nitwit |
Mar 6, 07 | 108 – Spy Gal Will Protect Jerry |
Aug 8, 16 | 688 – Zurida, The Peacemaker |
This is the one that was lifted almost entirely from the rejected version of strip 43. That’s how a lot of strips get written. I may write lots and lots of possible dialogue for any given strip and if something isn’t right for the idea, but the dialogue is good anyway, I’ll save it and [...]
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Nov 5, 06 | 33 – Why Walk When You Can Fly? |
Oct 20, 14 | 629 – Freaky Differences |
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Oct 21, 19 | 805 – Across the Mountaintop |
Jul 15, 08 | 145 – Wrinkly Butt |
This is one I was really excited about doing. The art in the SuperFogeys represents a style that I invented just for this strip. I work in a lot of different styles at my 9-to-5 and in my freelance work, so it was fun to show off one of those styles in this strip. Plus, [...]
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Mar 20, 07 | 119 – #@$% Heroic |
Oct 1, 06 | 9 – How to Turn Dr. Rocket On |
Jul 10, 15 | 654 – An Honest Conversation |
Aug 20, 14 | 619 – The Repentant |
Jan 4, 12 | 375 – In The Zone |
By the time I got to this strip I’d really tossed away any notion I had of keeping the same structure of four panels for each strip. This is another of those ideas I had from almost the very beginning of Chapter 2. It’s so weird seeing the Captain standing. I don’t know that I’ll [...]
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Nov 11, 10 | 284 – Pairing Off |
Nov 6, 06 | 34 – Introducing the Healer! |
Mar 26, 14 | 583 – The Captain is Not as Alone as He Thinks |
Jul 29, 15 | 662 – Lazy Villainy |
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I love Gene. He’s such a jerk and yet, I think, you feel sorry for him. I don’t really know why. Maybe it’s just me. I broke my rule of having Spy Gal being tough enough to defend herself because I couldn’t pass up the joke. I hope no one minded.
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Oct 16, 06 | 23 – The Incontinent Duo |
Aug 31, 12 | Pg. 4 “Crib Cage” |
Talk about left field, huh? All I’ll say here is that I do know who the Healer is talking to and it is a hint at something greater and we WILL find out who it is. There are more questions to be asked about this one, but I’ll let you figure out what they are.
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May 24, 22 | 891 – Third Eye Blind |
Jun 13, 11 | 324 – What is a Hero? |
Aug 29, 12 | 440 – Up, Up and CRASH |
Aug 1, 11 | 338 – The Flying Dragon |
I’m color-blind (mildly so, but still…), but the SuperFogeys are a one man show so you all have to put up with my puke palette. However, it’s always nice when a strip looks pretty like I think this one does. The entire point of this strip is to justify the next one…
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Oct 3, 06 | 11 – The Power Dampener |
May 4, 11 | 313 – Dr. Rocket’s Space Journey, Pt. 2: A Lovely Woman |
Oct 9, 06 | 16 – Spy Gal Wakes Up |
Jan 10, 18 | 753 – What She’d Like to Know |
Jan 29, 20 | 828 – Sorry About the Torture |
…just as the entire point of Chapter 2 was to justify this one joke. See, I wrote this one as one of the first 10 strips back in the first weeks of the creation of the SuperFogeys. I quickly realized that I couldn’t use it because, uh, hello? Captain Spectacular can’t walk. Thus, Chapter 2 [...]
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Nov 4, 08 | 176 – An Evil #@$% |
May 5, 12 | Pg. 11 “Fly Away” |
May 3, 08 | 86 – WebSpace Page: Jerry |
Oct 31, 11 | 359 – Warmed Up |
Jul 31, 15 | 663 – Pandora’s Box |
This is an important call back to the end of Chapter 1. I had to keep Jerry’s unrequited love alive somehow and it seems particularly harsh that it’s now Spy Gal herself who is diminishing him. Jerry’s just fun to mess with.
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Oct 11, 06 | 18 – Ben Gay Smell |
May 1, 08 | 101 – WebSpace Page: Captain Spectacular |
Aug 27, 10 | SF Origins: Operation: Valhalla, No. 4 “Talking Turnips” |
Jan 15, 18 | 754 – Not Strong Anymore |
Oct 17, 12 | 450 – Neither One of Them Expected It |
And that’s it, folks! Captain Spectacular’s dialogue here with Dr. Klein offers real insight into his character. CS has retired from not only the hero business, but also from life. Even though this seems like a return to the status quo, the Captain will remain healed and able to walk. Might make things interesting later [...]
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Nov 18, 06 | 46 – The Winner of Bingo Night…? |
Apr 11, 11 | 306 – He Looks Like He’s Dying |
Feb 13, 12 | 386 – The Papanazi Report: Vegas |
May 26, 15 | What You’ve Been Waiting to Know… |
May 30, 11 | 320 – One Thing Left |