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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Nov 4, 08 | 176 – An Evil #@$% |
Apr 9, 07 | 138 – Good News and Bad News |
Oct 23, 19 | 806 – Space Pigs in the Forest |
Sep 10, 12 | 443 – “Open to Ideas” |
Feb 4, 13 | 477 – The Most Annoying Kid in the World |
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 23, 08 | 165 – Not a Villain? |
Nov 18, 06 | 46 – The Winner of Bingo Night…? |
Nov 2, 16 | 710 – Crimson Oils |
Aug 20, 09 | 221 – And By Books Do You Mean Skin Rags? |
Jun 8, 10 | SF Origins: The Life and Times of Soviet Sam, Pg. 3 “Valhalla” |
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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Sep 5, 11 | 348 – The Wheel of Fortune |
Oct 13, 20 | 846 – Oh, He Dead |
Oct 9, 08 | 170 – There Will Be Blood |
Apr 15, 10 | 252 – Like A Son |
Jul 16, 09 | 216 – Cami |
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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Jul 9, 08 | Guest Strip by Rufus Edge of “comicdeoxyribonucleicacid!” |
Aug 31, 11 | 347 – Witch Fontana’s Fortunate Fortunes |
Nov 11, 10 | 284 – Pairing Off |
Jun 16, 14 | 601 – Kneel Before Thrice |
Jan 5, 10 | Guest Strip by Joe Cook of “Shattered Myth!” |
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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Jul 7, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 21 “Sayonara, Sucker!” |
Mar 23, 21 | 884 – No Good at This |
Jun 26, 13 | 516 – Time to Clean House |
Aug 27, 10 | SF Origins: Operation: Valhalla, No. 4 “Talking Turnips” |
Nov 24, 14 | 639 – What She Had to Do |
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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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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Aug 7, 13 | 524 – Cracked |
Sep 10, 09 | 224 – The Race |
Jan 26, 07 | 84 – You Don’t Mess with Dr. Klein |
Feb 24, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 2 “Swifty” |
Jul 29, 11 | Pg.2 “Bio Signature Giveaway” |
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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Feb 3, 11 | 294 – Funny Ya Should Mention That |
Oct 28, 08 | 175 – My Pleasure |
Jan 9, 17 | 724 – Requiem for Tangerine |
Feb 3, 12 | Pg. 4 “Exile” |
May 25, 11 | 319 – The Plans of Dr. Klein, Pt. 2 “Isn’t Everybody?” |
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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Feb 8, 12 | 385 – Tiger Dung |
Aug 6, 18 | Swifty Origin, Pg. 10 “The Heart” |
Aug 17, 16 | 691 – That’s Enough |
Aug 19, 08 | 155 – Bait and Switch |
Dec 3, 12 | 463 – May Percy Have a Pet? |
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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May 27, 13 | 507 – Telling Off Skunk Head |
Jul 22, 10 | 266 – The Greatest Book Ever Written |
Nov 9, 06 | 37 – Is Dr. Klein a Sexy Beast? |
Jan 2, 07 | 61 – Dictator Tot in Hel |
May 27, 10 | 258 – The Skirt Goes in the Wrong Direction |
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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Oct 28, 10 | 282 – Mucking with Space and Time |
May 27, 13 | 507 – Telling Off Skunk Head |
Dec 15, 20 | 862 – That’s It!? |
Jul 19, 22 | 907 – Where is Sam? |
Oct 19, 12 | Pg. 9 “Let’s Go!” |
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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Sep 3, 18 | Pg. 14 “Fire and Light and Rain” |
Apr 18, 12 | 404 – President Superknocker |
Oct 9, 17 | 736 – This Blighted World |
Jan 21, 21 | 867 – Sam I Am |
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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Jun 16, 14 | 601 – Kneel Before Thrice |
Apr 1, 10 | 250 – To Be So Stupid |
Feb 11, 21 | 873 – Against the Wall |
Jul 13, 10 | SF Origins: The Life and Times of Soviet Sam, Pg. 8 “Sweet Dreams” |
Jul 23, 14 | 612 – A Tale of Two Swifties. |
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 22, 10 | SF Origins: The Life and Times of Soviet Sam, Pg. 5 “How People Look at You” |
Apr 6, 12 | Pg. 7 “Death or Peanut Butter Cookies?” |
Nov 20, 08 | 181 – The Thrice Evil |
Aug 14, 20 | 845 – Better and Better |
Jan 1, 07 | 60 – Introducing Dictator Tot! |
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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Apr 1, 10 | 250 – To Be So Stupid |
Nov 11, 08 | 178 – Death, M.D. |
Aug 21, 19 | 793 – The Hero He Hates to Be |
Jan 30, 07 | 90 – Introducing Star Maiden! |
Jun 15, 12 | Pg. 1 “Through the Portal” |
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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Mar 20, 07 | 119 – #@$% Heroic |
Nov 25, 08 | 182 – Someone Steps Forward (Bubbles of Light 3) |
Jan 26, 10 | SF Origins: The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular, Pg. 3 “Explosive Ending” |
Sep 30, 10 | 278 – The Others |
Sep 7, 12 | Pg. 5 “Who Squished?” |
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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Nov 23, 06 | 50 – And the Actual Winner of Bingo Night is… |
Apr 9, 14 | 587 – Your Attention Please |
Jul 19, 22 | 907 – Where is Sam? |
Mar 26, 07 | 125 – Jerry’s Down |
May 21, 12 | 413 – The Sunway |
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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Sep 9, 08 | 161 – Tangerine’s Arrival and Dr. Klein’s Return |
Mar 3, 11 | 298 – Vile Villainous Vole |
May 28, 12 | 415 – Someone REALLY Hates Space Monkeys |
Dec 18, 13 | 558 – Sokol Steps Up |
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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Aug 3, 15 | 664 – Too Old to Drive |
Mar 12, 07 | 111 – Forgive Dr. Rocket |
Jul 15, 11 | Pg. 14 “Why Wouldn’t She?” |
Mar 26, 09 | 201 – The Orphan BBQ Will Have to Wait |
Nov 19, 14 | 638 – The Man Who Sold the World |
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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Mar 5, 12 | 392 – …Secrets, Secrets Hurt Someone |
Aug 7, 08 | 152 – Best Man |
Oct 12, 11 | 354 – Snap Out of It! |
Jul 22, 08 | 147 – Three Plus Seven |
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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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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Aug 4, 09 | SF Origins: Tangerine, Pg. 2 “Master Masticate and the Concubine Cannibals” |
Sep 23, 08 | 165 – Not a Villain? |
Apr 23, 14 | 589 – The Lie of Never |
Nov 9, 16 | 712 – Ah-ah-ah |
Sep 14, 16 | 699 – How Captain Spectacular Takes Care of Business |
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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May 28, 12 | 415 – Someone REALLY Hates Space Monkeys |
Oct 27, 20 | 850 – Grand Entrance |
Sep 5, 16 | 696 – Account Closed |
Oct 28, 11 | Pg. 5 “Knife in the Mouth” |
Aug 1, 16 | 686 – Captain Spectacular’s Mighty Punch |
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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Jan 18, 07 | 73 – It’s FUN to Share |
May 21, 14 | 597 – Him Who? |
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May 23, 12 | 414 – Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe |
Apr 1, 10 | 250 – To Be So Stupid |
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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Sep 16, 11 | Pg. 2 “The Fallen Rabbit” |
Mar 17, 07 | 116 – Still Hot |
Dec 16, 13 | 557 – Dog Off the Leash |
Aug 28, 15 | 675 – Crossing Worlds |
Aug 8, 12 | 434 – Marching Orders |
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 4, 11 | Guest Strip by Javier Del Villar, Part Two |
Jan 9, 07 | 65 – Co-Conspirators |
Oct 4, 11 | Chapter 9, “Head Games” Recap by Eric Merritt |
Sep 27, 11 | Chapter 4, “Dictator Tot’s Revenge” Recap by Jeremy Bentley |
Jan 20, 11 | 292 – Everything Was Chaos |
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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Feb 6, 07 | 96 – Portal? |
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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Aug 3, 12 | Pg. 6 “Inevitably Betrayed” |
Mar 23, 11 | 301 – Hmph |
May 18, 12 | Pg. 2 “Not Ready or Able” |
Jan 14, 10 | 239 – How Captain Spectacular Knows The Third Man |
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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Oct 17, 12 | 450 – Neither One of Them Expected It |
Sep 14, 12 | Pg. 6 “Who Could Have Done This?” |
Feb 7, 07 | 97 – The Return |
May 20, 13 | 505 – Dark Disease |
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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Oct 5, 11 | Chapter 10, “Bubbles of Light” Recap by Danny Burleson |
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Oct 22, 20 | 849 – Break a Hip |
Feb 5, 20 | 830 – Literary Twist |
Sep 18, 16 | 700 – Happy Tenth Anniversary, SuperFogeys |
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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Apr 25, 18 | 781 – Everyone in the War Room! |
Dec 28, 09 | Guest Strip by Don Oskowski of “Conduit Flux!” |
Feb 1, 07 | 92 – Not the Woman He Used to Know |
Dec 10, 09 | 237 – A Surprise Visitor |
Sep 30, 06 | 8 – Hands Off Spy Gal! |
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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Apr 23, 09 | 205 – Here is What I Propose |
May 15, 13 | 504 – A Striking Mustache |