Welcome to Chapter 24: The Guthrie! This is the big one. Everything has been leading to THIS. We’ve never tackled a chapter so big and so riddled with consequence. Honestly, I think both Marc and I are scared of this chapter. There’s just…it’s a lot. Think of it as a song that starts out quietly [...]
The Dr. Rocket/Zurida relationship is the gift that keeps on giving, amiright? See you on Monday!
Thrice Evil might be a little behind the curve on this one. Just sayin’. See you all on Wednesday with what I think is one of the coolest strips Marc has illustrated yet!
I think this is one of the most visually stunning strips Marc has ever done, but I’ve been saying that a lot as the art has come in for this chapter. He really poured everything he has into it, including going so far as to reference the real Washington D.C. to make sure he had [...]
One of the things I love most about the SuperFogeys Vol. 1 collection (available in finer comics stores soon) is the how much the silent strips stand out and add so much to the pacing of the chapters. It took me a long while to start doing them on the regular (the end of Chapter [...]
More silent panels. Satisfying? No? Refer to my notes in the previous strip for why we’re doing this. The meat of this chapter is coming, and soon. Gotta get through these appetizers first and set everything up. All that said…that’s some beautiful artwork by Marc, no? See you on Monday with 807 – Space Pig [...]
Welcome back to another talking edition of The SuperFogeys. In this episode, Space Pigs speak. I’m pretty sure some of you forgot Space Pigs can even do that. THE FIRST NON-KICKSTARTER SUPERFOGEYS BOOK IS SOLD…AND YOU’LL NEVER GUESS TO WHO This past weekend, our resident artist, Marc Lapierre, held court at the Bing Con in [...]
Don’t mess with Space Pig. Seriously. A big part of what I enjoy about the early part of this chapter is getting Cap and Swifty on a mission together, especially at this point in the story. Swifty has a long history of giving Cap a hard time, but not this more humbled version. And I [...]
Ahhh…the famous Jerry Cradle. Infamous? It has, admittedly, been a long time since we’ve seen it in use. You’d have to go all the way back to the origin of the Society of Heroes to see that! I don’t know about all of you, but I have yet to get sick of Atomic Fly. I [...]
There’s a thing happening in this chapter that we just don’t do all that often: decompressed storytelling. Since its widespread mainstream adoption in superhero comics around the turn of the century, I’ve had a bit of a love/hate relationship with decompressed storytelling. On the one hand, you can create more cinematic moments with this style [...]
I just love when Marc gets a chance to cut loose. Fun fact: this strip was done full Marvel Method. I told Marc what basically needed to happen, he drew it, and it was only then I gave any thought to whether or not there should be any dialogue, or what it should say. [...]
Spy Gal doesn’t mess around. See you on Monday with 813 – Villains Landing!
New looks for President Reed and Star Matron! Couldn’t send them into battle in their civvies, now could we? The new uniforms came together pretty quickly–Marc is a real ace when it comes to character design–but I did have feelings about President Reed’s hat. In Marc’s original design, he was hatless. That didn’t feel quite [...]
I wonder about guys like Hazmarty there in the first panel. What’s his deal? Why “oh dang” and not “oh damn?” What does he think about being led by all these old fogeys? I realize I’m the writer and I could answer these questions, but we just don’t have time for that as we speed [...]
