CHAPTER 7 Today is the first installment of the next chapter of the SuperFogeys. Great time to jump in, but also a great time to read Chapter 6 from the beginning if you’re so inclined. NEXT WEEK: Insults and punches are thrown on Tuesday over at SuperFogeys Origins. On Thursday, Valhalla welcomes its first three visitors, [...]
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SKETCH CARDS If you’ve paid any attention to the links down at the bottom of these comments week in and week out, then you know that this week SF Book 4, collecting Chapter 5, “The Redemption of Dr. Rocket” finally ships. Been waiting on this one a long time–too long in fact. Which is why [...]
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HMMM…WHERE DID THEY GO? This is just my guess, but If I had to place money on it, I’d say here. BUBBLES OF LIGHT Ah, the bubbles of light. How I have missed you. We’ve seen these before, do you remember? If you don’t or if you’re new to SF, I’m here to help. Previous appearances [...]
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Mar 23, 10 | SF Origins: Swifty and the Prophecy, Pg. 3 “After That Bear!” |
Mar 26, 12 | 398 – Rookie Hero Move |
Jun 16, 14 | 601 – Kneel Before Thrice |
Jul 30, 18 | Pg. 9 “Who is Talking?” |
Mar 30, 10 | SF Origins: Swifty and the Prophecy, Pg. 4 “SMACK!” |
LET’S TRY SOMETHING NEW TOGETHER Normally, I offer little-to-no commentary on the strips and pages on the day they’re released. Last Thursday, I broke that rule a bit by linking to past Bubbles of Light episodes. I though it would be helpful and most of you seemed to enjoy that. You see, a small part [...]
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Sep 4, 13 | 532 – How Hard is the Rock Upon Which Stands Your Principles? |
Jan 9, 13 | 470 – Soviet Sam Strikes Again |
Jul 4, 11 | 330 – Swim City |
Oct 24, 12 | 452 – Book of Mormon Story |
Jan 6, 11 | Guest Strip by Marjorie Rishel |
THE FRUSTRATING SILENCE OF THE WEEKLONG WAIT Well, here we are at the halfway point of this year of once-a-week SuperFogeys updates (SuperFogeys Origins is really a different comic altogether). I want to thank you all for your patience in waiting a solid week between updates. I know that can be frustrating, especially on a [...]
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Dec 8, 20 | 860 – Idiot Martha |
May 26, 14 | 598 – Do You Moisturize? |
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Jun 20, 11 | 326 – Air Valhalla |
Sep 26, 12 | GUEST STRIP by Crystal Murphy, Summer Fun Pt. 2! |
CAMI “So when are you going to put Cami in the SuperFogeys?” It’s Spring of 2007 and I’ve just told my wife about this new character I’m going to introduce called Dictator Tot and how it’s based on our oldest daughter Elora, and this is what she asks me. “I dunno. Haven’t thought about it. [...]
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Apr 25, 18 | 781 – Everyone in the War Room! |
Mar 21, 07 | 120 – Swifty’s Losing? |
May 20, 11 | Pg. 6 “Invisible” |
Apr 20, 11 | 309 – Time Travelin’ Scamps |
I’M AT THE SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON THIS WEEKEND! For those of you that missed it on Tuesday… Through an odd series of circumstances that I won’t bore you with, last Thursday I was given two exhibitor passes to the sold-out San Diego International Comic Convention. I’ve gone to the con twice as a fan, but [...]
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Dec 14, 11 | 371 – Leaving Las Vegas |
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Oct 2, 13 | 540 – Jerry is Committed |
Sep 7, 15 | 679 – The Design of His Life |
SUPERFOGEYS VOL. 1 – THE TRADE PAPERBACK – NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!!! I have been waiting so, so long for this. The SuperFogeys has always been meant to be read as a whole and this new trade paperback represents the best possible reading experience. I’m pulling out all the stops for this. First, take a [...]
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Sep 26, 06 | 5 – The Urine of What!? |
Sep 9, 10 | 275 – A Moment of Silence |
Jan 4, 17 | 723 – Ascendant |
Oct 22, 12 | 451 – Will Tangerine Help? |
UPDATE! – MAJOR CHANGE TO SUPERFOGEYS VOL. 1!! As you know, I’ve been working hard on putting together the first SuperFogeys trade paperback. This week I finally got all the strips rewritten and re-edited (mostly just to make it a smoother read and not so “strippy”), and I also did some art tweaks here and [...]
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Oct 14, 10 | 280 – Twin Sisters |
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Sep 29, 06 | 7 – Turnip Turnip |
Oct 1, 15 | Chapter 21 Teaser! |
SUPERFOGEYS VOL. 1 UPDATE Things are going well with the production of the first mondo SuperFogeys trade paperback. Last week I did a complete recreation of the first SF strip in my current style (to be placed side-by-side the orignal on the first page of the book for comparison) and created some new Bing Knight [...]
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Jan 6, 14 | 560 – Lifeless |
Aug 11, 14 | Marc Lapierre and The SuperFogeys |
Nov 6, 13 | 546 – Tangerine Makes a Decision |
Feb 2, 10 | SF Origins: The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular, Pg. 4 “Zurida, Mistress of Worlds” |
Jul 22, 10 | 266 – The Greatest Book Ever Written |
SPECIAL THANKS Thanks go out to Erin Heasley, Mike DeVito and Tom Racine for their help on this strip. “CHARACTERS” PAGE UPDATED Did a pretty big update of the “Characters” page yesterday. Added some new characters, mostly from the Tangerine origin (currently running in SuperFogeys Origiins) and from Chapter 7. Did some minor updates on some [...]
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Oct 7, 11 | Chapter 12, “Jackpot!” Recap by Steve VanDyken |
Aug 24, 12 | Pg. 3 “Crybabies” |
Nov 7, 16 | 711- Fallen Son |
Aug 6, 12 | 433 – Isn’t the Alien Invasion Over By Now? |
Apr 16, 09 | 204 – Florida Beckons |
PREVIOUSLY IN THE SUPERFOGEYS… I want to be as user-friendly as possible and this chapter, with all of the cross-cutting between storylines, isn’t necessarily that. Not in the webcomic format anyway. I know that when you read it all together it’ll be great. So, for those that either don’t remember or weren’t able to check [...]
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Nov 2, 06 | 30 – B-I-N-G-O |
Jul 13, 10 | SF Origins: The Life and Times of Soviet Sam, Pg. 8 “Sweet Dreams” |
Jul 23, 12 | 429 – Shenanigans |
Nov 9, 06 | 37 – Is Dr. Klein a Sexy Beast? |
SUPERFOGEYS VOL. 1 PREVIEW! Production is wrapping up on the SF trade and I wanted to give you guys a peek at what the inside of the book will look like. Here’s a couple spreads that show you the beginning and ending of Chapter 1: Obviously, the real book will be much bigger at [...]
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Mar 9, 10 | SF Origins: Swifty and the Prophecy, Pg. 1 “Nice Moves” |
Jan 6, 11 | Guest Strip by Marjorie Rishel |
Nov 13, 06 | 41 – Swifty’s Litany |
Aug 27, 18 | Swifty Origin, Pg. 13 “Doom” |
Dec 8, 20 | 860 – Idiot Martha |
A week ago today… SEIZURE TWO (The following assumes you have already read this.) She wouldn’t eat her french fries. I should’ve known something was up when the fries just sat there on her plate and she demanded rice. Who the crud prefers rice over fries? Certainly not Cami. Not ever before that night. “She [...]
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Jan 1, 09 | Guest Strip by Mark R. Engel of “Prematurely Disappointed!” |
Feb 5, 18 | 760 – OG Thrice |
Feb 11, 21 | 873 – Against the Wall |
Mar 16, 20 | 839 – What What |
Nov 14, 11 | 362 – Robots Don’t Sleep |
SPACE PIG GUEST STARS IN THE LEGEND OF BILL!? Better believe it. THOUGHTS *I need to make a SuperFogeys Timeline. Finally realized I’m not just telling a story anymore. Between SFO and the regular strip, I’m building a universe. I need to make a timeline to keep everything straight. I know the order everything occurs [...]
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Oct 21, 19 | 805 – Across the Mountaintop |
Feb 11, 21 | 873 – Against the Wall |
May 3, 08 | 86 – WebSpace Page: Jerry |
Apr 7, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 8 “Ticking Bomb” |
THE ANNOTATED SuperFogeys 226 See Dr. Rocket first mention his daughter here, then check out her first visual appearance here (look closely). And, of course, we just saw her in SuperFogeys Origins. To find out what the Third Man and Dr. Rocket are talking about, start here. NEW MUSIC Anyone who knows me knows I’m a music-buying fiend. My [...]
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Jun 30, 22 | 902 – Devastation |
Dec 7, 06 | 56 – Dr. Rocket Will Have His Revenge |
May 18, 11 | 317 – Why Dr. Klein Needs a Robot |
Mar 2, 10 | SF Origins: The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular, Pg. 9 “Mature Love” |
AND THE WRITER OF THE FOREWORD TO SUPERFOGEYS VOLUME ONE IS… Rich Johnston of BleedingCool.com! I’ve been reading Rich’s work for years, first his “Lying in the Gutters” column over at Comic Book Resources, and now on his own site. Rich is the foremost gossip mongerer in comic book land. He’s always on top of the [...]
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Mar 26, 07 | 125 – Jerry’s Down |
Feb 16, 21 | 874 – The One True |
AT THE BALTIMORE COMIC-CON THIS WEEKEND For you east coasters, I’ll be at the Baltimore Convention Center this weekend for the annual Comic Con. I’ll be joined by SuperFogeys Origins artist T.L. Collins and the rest of the Th3rd World crew to launch the big book I’ve been talking about for months–SuperFogeys Volume 1! I’ll [...]
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Nov 20, 08 | 181 – The Thrice Evil |
Oct 19, 11 | 356 – Best Luck of Her Life |
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Jul 25, 11 | 336 – Walking Diagonally |
Aug 20, 12 | 437 – Ever Since The Shriveled Speedster Left |
BALTIMORE COMIC CON ’09 REPORT “We’ve got some beers here. We were thinkin’ we could join all of you and make it a party.” What? Were they serious? From the back of the room it came: “COME ON IN!” I’ve heard strange stories about Comic Book Cons before, but never I was really in [...]
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Jun 30, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 20 “He Was a Noncombatant!” |
Apr 25, 18 | 781 – Everyone in the War Room! |
Dec 23, 11 | Pg. 6 “Battle in the Skies” |
Sep 7, 12 | Pg. 5 “Who Squished?” |
Apr 9, 07 | 138 – Good News and Bad News |
THE ANNOTATED SuperFogeys 230 Today’s strip once again dips into a story I keep brushing up against but never really tell. Don’t worry. The upcoming SuperFogeys Origins story, “The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular” will finally put everything together. For now, here’s some links to past appearances of Tom and his mother. We first glimpsed [...]
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ANOTHER ARTIST CLIMBS ABOARD THE SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS EXPRESS TRAIN Tuesday, as I was rewriting the script (again) for the today’s strip, I got a flash of an idea for an Origin story that I knew I just had to tell. The idea that Tom and Ms. Missile are together (which some of you had [...]
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A VERY MERRY GUEST STRIPPIN’ CHRISTMAS Iiiiiit’s that time again. As per usual, I’ll be taking a week or two off around Christmas time to spend time with my family and recharge my batteries a bit. This past year in SF has taken more out of me than I thought it would–writing SFO and doing [...]
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Nov 4, 19 | 809 – The Jerry Cradle |
Oct 12, 12 | Pg. 8 “Gross Fetuses” |
Dec 7, 16 | 717 – The Fury of Soviet Sam |
Jul 3, 15 | 651 – Duplicity |
May 20, 08 | SF Collection #4 Cover |
THE ANNOTATED SUPERFOGEYS 233 Spy Gal’s suspicion of Dr. Klein has a bit of a history to it, going all the way back to when the Valhalla computers went a little screwy in Chapter 3 and Spy Gal was determined to get to the bottom of it. But, when she confronted Dr. Klein with the [...]
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Dec 14, 16 | 719 – It’s Easy When You Know How |
Aug 1, 14 | Pg. 5 “Many Doors, All Locked” |
Oct 7, 10 | 279 – Gina Galloway |
Apr 18, 11 | 308 – Time Displaced/Erased/No Taste |
Jul 31, 13 | 522 – A Favor for Spy Gal |
THE SUPERFOGEYS HOLIDAY BUNDLE Going up very soon in the SuperFogeys Store will be a special holiday bundle that will get you a newly designed SF t-shirt and SF Vol. 1 together for a discounted price. Was hoping to have it up by the time his post goes live, but y’know, life happens. Keep checking [...]
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Sep 21, 15 | 685 – Doom Comes to Abbadon |
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Aug 4, 09 | SF Origins: Tangerine, Pg. 2 “Master Masticate and the Concubine Cannibals” |
Oct 28, 08 | 175 – My Pleasure |
Apr 16, 09 | 204 – Florida Beckons |
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! What are you doing reading this? Go spend time with your family! But, if you insist on reading this…let me just say thanks to all of you for your support and comments and enthusiasm for the SuperFogeys. Wouldn’t be a point to any of it without you. THE SUPERFOGEYS HOLIDAY BUNDLE I posted [...]
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Mar 18, 13 | 489 – Change in Plan |
Feb 11, 21 | 873 – Against the Wall |
Oct 1, 12 | 445 – I Don’t Know What I’ve Been Told |
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Nov 29, 17 | 751 – Who Do You Think Paid for All This? |
WHAT A WEEK Feel like I’ve been typing nonstop for the last few days so I don’t have too much to say today. The big news this week was theSuperFogeys 2010 Teaser that was posted yesterday. The response was TREMENDOUS. Thanks to everyone who spread that around the Net. Your support is, as always, very [...]
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Feb 3, 20 | 829 – Too. Far. |
I HAVE BEATEN THE COMPUTER DEMON (with a little help from my friends) So I’m finally back in business. Lost about 10% of my music, but none of my comic and work files. Thank goodness. Big thanks to the amazing IT crew, Johann and Jesse. I would have been in biiiiiig trouble without them. The [...]
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Jul 22, 08 | 147 – Three Plus Seven |
Dec 6, 06 | 55 – A Mysterious Figure in the Wings |
Jul 23, 18 | Pg. 8 “Better When She Was a Villain” |
THE LAST REGULAR SUPERFOGEYS STRIP OF 2009 Way to go out, right? If you haven’t already seen the SuperFogeys 2010 teaser poster, I’d suggest doing so now. As you can see, it’s going to pay off sooner than you think. BUT NEVER FEAR, MUCH MORE SUPERFOGEYS CONTENT ON THE WAY! Next week will once again see [...]
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Jan 21, 10 | 240 – ZAP! |
Dec 2, 11 | Pg. 3 “Enter The Space Pig” |
Aug 28, 08 | 158 – Bubbles of Light 2 |
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Jun 3, 13 | 509 – Villain to Villain |
THE ANNOTATED SUPERFOGEYS 239 Bit of a recap as it’s been nearly one month since SuperFogeys 238: When last we left the SuperFogeys, Captain Spectacular’s son, Tom, was introducing his father to his new girlfriend–Dr. Rocket’s adopted daughter Ms. Missile. Just then, The Third Man appeared in all his menace and made the claim that [...]
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Dec 6, 06 | 55 – A Mysterious Figure in the Wings |
THE ANNONTATED SUPERFOGEYS 240 For those wondering, Captain Spectacular is thinking back to something that happened way back in Chapter 5. Click here to see it in its entirety, and click here to see him discuss it. And, hey, remember this? THE QUINTUPLE-SIZED UPDATE THAT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE If you follow me on Twitter, then you [...]
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THE ANNOTATED SUPERFOGEYS 241 Seems like a good time to take a look back at Tom his journey in SuperFogeys and SuperFogeys Origins, don’t it? Tom’s first appearance Tom’s struggles with Jetpack addicition Tom meets with his father at Valhalla Tom talks about his mother Tom gets a girlfrend Tom introduces his father to the [...]
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THE NEWS IS BIG THIS WEEK. IT MUST BE REPEATED. In case you missed it on Tuesday… I have a comic in the monthly competition over at Zuda (the webcomics arm of DC Comics). At stake: a one-year contract with DC to keep making my comic. That’s comic’s name? MONSTERPLEX. If you like SuperFogeys, I’ve got [...]
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Thanks to those of you that have already voted and supported MONSTERPLEX! (You’re probably the same ones who read this section every week!) As of this writing, we’re number two, but the margin between us and first place appears to be quite slim. Team Monsterplex can still win this thing! I’ll shut up about it [...]
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UPDATE – MONSTERPLEX/SUPERFOGEYS LIVE CHAT ON SUNDAY, 9PM EST Hey all, just a quick note to let you know about a Live Chat and Podcast I’ll be doing with the guys over at TGT Webcomics this Sunday at 9pm EST/6pm PST. The chat will be done through Talk Shoe, so anyone who would like to be [...]
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