This is the payoff for all the set-up I did at the beginning of the chapter with Spy Gal and Jerry. Wait, I take that back, you don’t really get the payoff for this until Chapter 5, but this is the beginning. Pants. Always good for a joke. Spy Gal growing suspicious of Dr. Klein [...]
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Nurse Carter has a personality! I think I do an alright job of developing my characters, but Nurse Carter has always been the one that I’ve neglected. Here, finally, she says something that hints at something resembling a thought in her head. It’s the kind of character humor that can be difficult to do, but [...]
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Jul 3, 13 | 518 – The Last Secret |
Mar 24, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 6 “Beaten to the Punch” |
Oct 2, 13 | 540 – Jerry is Committed |
Dec 2, 11 | Pg. 3 “Enter The Space Pig” |
Mar 12, 14 | 579 – The Romantic Smell of Blood and Suffering |
133 – Beginning the Tale of How Captain Spectacular Met Dr. Klein
by Brock Heasley on April 3rd, 2007Drawing a sauced Captain Spectacular was so much fun that I have to find a way to do it again. I WILL find a way to do it again. Originally, this was going to be flashback to how CS met Jerry. I’ll still tell that story one day, but with Spy Gal’s suspicions raised, I [...]
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Feb 22, 11 | Pg. 4 “Ruined Her Show” |
Dec 10, 20 | 861 – tink tink tink |
Dec 14, 16 | 719 – It’s Easy When You Know How |
May 16, 11 | 316 – Dr. Rocket’s Space Journey, Pt. 5: The Last Place Anyone Would Think to Look |
Apr 25, 11 | 310 – Doctor. |
Here’s one of the advantages of planning far, far ahead: I can drop tidbits in here and there because, to me, the stories already exist. Tom and the Mysterious Woman in the photograph are something for later (probably Chapter 7), but knowing about them already, I can use them to illustrate a point here. The [...]
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Oct 27, 09 | SF Origins: JA – Tom’s Story, Pg. 4 “How Can I Not Go Soaring?” |
Jul 16, 18 | Pg. 7 “Passion Enough to Change a Heart” |
Aug 3, 15 | 664 – Too Old to Drive |
Nov 12, 09 | 233 – She Was Undercover |
Aug 6, 14 | 616 – One of Zurida’s |
Had a blast with the first panel. I love drawing Mr. Crook, design courtesy of Eskimo Dave creator Mike Hartigan. I wish he wasn’t dead. Check back to Episode 10 of Chapter 1 for a part of Mr. Crook’s story. Mustache on Captain Spectacular doesn’t look too bad. A little more insight on the Jerry/Swifty [...]
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Apr 30, 18 | 782 – The Lone Figure in the Doorway |
Mar 17, 07 | 116 – Still Hot |
Nov 13, 17 | 746 – The New Maid |
Apr 7, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 8 “Ticking Bomb” |
Nov 20, 13 | 550 – Everything in its Right Place |
This was supposed to be a very normal operation with some choice quips from Dr. Rocket. That was the idea anyway. Then I remembered, “Oh yeah, this is the SuperFogeys.” As with most things involving Dr. Rocket, this crosses the line from weird into disturbing. I’m pretty much okay with that.
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Jan 8, 18 | 752 – Like Jerry |
Dec 30, 10 | Guest Strip by Scott Gallatin of “Madscott!” (2010) |
Oct 20, 06 | 26 – How Jerry Met Spy Gal |
Feb 24, 11 | 297 – A Strong Man |
Wow. Just, wow. This strip is sooooo busy. I think there’s a certain charm to it, but hold crud, those panels are just loaded. Usually not a good idea. I have no idea why the Space Pig is singing “Last Kiss.” That was the song that seemed to fit and once I got the idea [...]
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Sep 9, 10 | 275 – A Moment of Silence |
Dec 26, 11 | Guest Strip by Will Boyer! |
Nov 13, 17 | 746 – The New Maid |
Aug 10, 11 | 341 – Stop |
Jul 8, 11 | Pg. 13 “A Tree Falls in the Forest…” |
This is a mean, mean cliffhanger. I don’t know that it’s fair to end this chapte like this, but it really couldn’t end any other way. Thematically, the next chapter has to begin a few seconds after Dr. Rockets declaration of good news and bad news. I’m hoping it’ll make sense why I did it [...]
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Jun 25, 14 | 604 – Vs. |
Sep 20, 16 | 10th Anniversary BONUS STRIP 1! |
Aug 9, 10 | 269 – Sparing Her |
Jul 5, 22 | 903 – Big Dumb Floating Ape |
Mar 19, 12 | 396 – Give Tom a Chance |
Commentary I’m proud to say that no one guessed how in the world the cliffhanger from the end of the last chapter would resolve itself. The nice thing about doing a humor strip is that, at times, the humor can be a convenient “out” of a storytelling situation and somehow it doesn’t feel cheap. In [...]
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Jan 6, 12 | Pg. 7 “Space Pig the Sidekick?” |
Jul 30, 18 | Pg. 9 “Who is Talking?” |
Apr 9, 07 | 138 – Good News and Bad News |
Aug 5, 10 | 268 – Sick and Unflattering |
Jan 21, 13 | 473 – Monkey Rain |
Commentary Even more with the convincing the audience that this is really who Dr. Rocket is now. While not exactly visually resplendent, I wanted to revisit something here (both artistically and from a character standpoint) that I hadn’t shown since chapter one: that in Valhalla “things are different” and mortal enemies can play a game [...]
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Commentary Visually, I really love this one. After what I felt was kind of a visually bankrupt previous strip, I really wanted to do something different with this one. With the action being outside of Valhalla and not featuring any of the Fogeys, the opportunity was certainly there. Dictator Tot’s exit was a long time [...]
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Oct 3, 06 | 11 – The Power Dampener |
Feb 10, 14 | 570 – Cavalry |
Nov 23, 10 | SF Origins: The Death of Mr. Crook, Pg. 2 “Just Like Everybody Else” |
Apr 25, 12 | 406 – Spy Gal’s Wall of Evidence |
Jan 6, 11 | Guest Strip by Marjorie Rishel |
Commentary Now, this I realize that this is almost entirely a cut-and-paste job from an eariler strip. In this case, I thought it was justified as a)it allowed me to get ahead a little and b)it was perfect for the pacing I was trying to achieve. I think the coloring really sells it and I had [...]
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Mar 13, 07 | 112 – Budapest ’68 All Over Again |
Feb 17, 12 | Pg. 2, “Devil Horned Goodbye” |
Apr 25, 18 | 781 – Everyone in the War Room! |
Jan 15, 07 | 70 – Gene and Dictator Tot Reunite |
May 17, 08 | SF Collection #3 Cover |
Commentary This strip hearkens back to something set up in Star Maiden’s WebSpace page, namely that she was a webcam girl. I had a lot of fun with the second panel in trying to make Star look both sexy and deranged. The drool pretty much sold it. Swifty’s feeling at the end of this strip pretty [...]
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Apr 1, 07 | 131 – Spy Gal Cares |
Oct 3, 11 | Chapter 8, “The Captain and the Spy” Recap by Nick Perkins |
Sep 29, 11 | Chapter 6, “Funeral for a Frenemy” Recap by Crystal Murphy |
Oct 9, 06 | 16 – Spy Gal Wakes Up |
Jul 19, 22 | 907 – Where is Sam? |
Commentary Looking at my comments below, it’s clear I wasn’t very happy about the way this strip turned out at the time. Looking at it now, I’m not sure what my problem was. Looks pretty decent to me, although I regret the color scheme I chose for Jerry’s hospital room, especially since he’s going to [...]
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Feb 4, 21 | 871 – To Save a Dark World |
Sep 24, 06 | 3 – Escape From the Carpathian Bug People |
Feb 27, 12 | 390 – Bubbles of Light 7 |
Apr 25, 12 | 406 – Spy Gal’s Wall of Evidence |
Dec 2, 06 | 52 – What Captain Spectacular Wants |
Commentary Ah, “Wrinkly Butt.” As this one was sitting at my drawing board, my wife happened upon it and exclaimed “WHAT IS UP WITH SPY GAL’S CHEST?” I explained that she’s been long established as a large-chested character and that she’s clearly folding her arms here so… My wife wasn’t having it. It was an [...]
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Commentary Ah, the proposal. I think this veers towards the sitcomish, but I like it for one reason: that we stay on Jerry the whole way through. Jerry doesn’t say a word, but he has his own little George-Bailey-Welcoming-Home-His-Brother-At-The-Train-Station moment, a brilliant bit of acting by Jimmy Stewart in It’s A Wonderful Life in which he [...]
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Nov 6, 19 | 810 – Meanwhile, In Las Vegas |
Apr 6, 11 | 305 – Favorite Thing He’s Seen All Year |
Apr 28, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 11 “Huzzah!” |
May 7, 18 | 784 – What is Jerry Missing? |
Nov 26, 12 | 461 – He Escaped |
Commentary Okay, I admit it. I goofed. There’s a huge continuity error here and I didn’t realize it until months later. Spy Gal states in panel 2 that they had been engaged before. The thing is…I made it pretty clear in the flashback for Chapter 3 that they hadn’t. Captain Spectacular was PLANNING to propose, [...]
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Jun 26, 13 | 516 – Time to Clean House |
Oct 13, 09 | SF Origins: JA – Tom’s Story, Pg. 2 “Not About My Dad” |
Nov 13, 08 | 179 – Reverend Space Pig |
Oct 9, 08 | 170 – There Will Be Blood |
Jan 25, 07 | 83 – The Seduction of Dr. Klein |
Commentary I am nothing if not patient. I created Tangerine quite a while ago. In fact, his actual first appearance is on the cover of the first SuperFogeys book and in the bonus story of that same book as drawn by Mike Hartigan. Each of the SuperFogeys are pretty much analogues for characters in either the [...]
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Jan 4, 11 | Guest Strip by Javier Del Villar, Part Two |
Aug 27, 12 | 439 – So IMPOLITE! |
Jun 3, 09 | The SuperFogeys Free Comic Book Day Page! |
Sep 29, 09 | SF Origins: Herman’s Story, Pg. 5 “Time to Move On” |
Jul 16, 18 | Pg. 7 “Passion Enough to Change a Heart” |
Commentary Ah! Ah! Ah! Too much! There’s just way too much going on in this strip. I could have easily took all the same ideas here and spread them out into three strips instead of compacting them into one. Plus, I was way too in love with my own dialogue. Swifty’s in the first panel [...]
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Dec 15, 20 | 862 – That’s It!? |
Oct 4, 06 | 12 – Introducing Space Pig! |
Sep 25, 13 | 538 – The Amazing Zurida |
May 18, 10 | SF Origins: Star Maiden, Pg. 6 “Earth” |
Commentary My previous comments: Some of you have already seen this strip. I did this one a month or so back as a guest strip for Lucas Turnbloom’s “Imagine This”. But…as you can see from the previous strip…it fits right in nicely with our ongoing story. Big thanks to my Tall Tale Features compatriot for lending me [...]
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Jun 27, 11 | 328 – Pairing Off |
Sep 10, 12 | 443 – “Open to Ideas” |
Feb 22, 11 | Pg. 4 “Ruined Her Show” |
Jun 7, 22 | 895 – Can’t Stop Won’t Stop |
Aug 31, 11 | 347 – Witch Fontana’s Fortunate Fortunes |
Commentary Ugh. Another butt-ugly strip. I think I’m starting to realize that this was a bit problem for me in Chapter 5 – too many strips trying to do too much. Dr. Rocket’s gift-giving continues here. Of particular note is the peanut butter cookie he gives Captain Spectacular. That’s actually a follow-up to a bonus [...]
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Jul 10, 08 | Guest Strip by Lucas Turnbloom of “Imagine This!” |
Sep 7, 12 | Pg. 5 “Who Squished?” |
Jul 9, 08 | Guest Strip by Rufus Edge of “comicdeoxyribonucleicacid!” |
Oct 15, 09 | 229 – Father and Tom |
Commentary Oh, this is just the ultimate slam. Captain Spectacular is definitely a “lives in the moment” kind of guy. I just couldn’t resist kicking Jerry when he’s down. He doesn’t speak, but again he communicates a lot. This strip is also one of the first indications that Cap and Doc were once friends, [...]
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Mar 11, 21 | 881 – Minutes Away |
Aug 28, 19 | 795 – The Duality of All Creatures |
Oct 24, 16 | 707 – Demise |
Aug 5, 08 | 151 – Peanut Butter Cookies |
Sep 8, 22 | 922 – The New Normal |
Commentary This is one of those rare strips that I think is pretty good, both visually and from a story standpoint, but that has a pretty weak punchline. There’s just something so obvious about that last panel. What I do like a lot is the unconventional paneling. I don’t remember exactly how I hit on the [...]
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Feb 6, 12 | 384 – Taking It Well |
Nov 25, 13 | 551 – The Guthrie is Turned On |
Nov 7, 16 | 711- Fallen Son |
May 7, 09 | 207 – Not My Story to Tell |
Jan 7, 13 | 469 – Beating Into Submission with Peace |
COMMENTARY In the first panel there, you’ll notice a sign on the box that’s cut off. The full sign would read “Ark of the Covenant – Do Not Touch,” an obvious shout-out to Indiana Jones. The monster is another shout-out. This is my lame attempt at a tribute to the master of drawing monsters—Jack Kirby. [...]
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Oct 16, 08 | 172 – The Superhero Code |
Mar 26, 07 | 125 – Jerry’s Down |
Sep 21, 15 | 685 – Doom Comes to Abbadon |
Sep 28, 11 | Chapter 5, “The Redemption of Dr. Rocket” Recap by Geoff Munn |
Jul 9, 08 | Guest Strip by Rufus Edge of “comicdeoxyribonucleicacid!” |
COMMENTARY Look at the detail in that darkened warehouse! I kid. If you look closely at the third panel you’ll see that Dictator Tot has tossed aside a small device. I didn’t have room to explicitly state it, but the idea is that she was using that device to make it appear as though she [...]
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Jul 3, 13 | 518 – The Last Secret |
Sep 29, 09 | SF Origins: Herman’s Story, Pg. 5 “Time to Move On” |
Sep 27, 11 | Chapter 4, “Dictator Tot’s Revenge” Recap by Jeremy Bentley |
Jan 27, 12 | Pg. 3 “The Trial of Space Pig” |
Feb 3, 12 | Pg. 4 “Exile” |
COMMENTARY Based on this strip, for some reason, a lot of people assumed that Captain Spectacular II is the son of Captain Spectacular. Such is not the case. I love, love, love the look of this one. I wish I got to play with colors like the more often, or, at least, that I was [...]
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Aug 13, 09 | 220 – Don’t Act Like You Care |
Feb 3, 11 | 294 – Funny Ya Should Mention That |
Mar 25, 07 | 124 – Shooting |
Jan 26, 21 | 868 – The Blame Game |
Sep 9, 13 | 533 – Mega Matt Tells It |
COMMENTARY This strip originally without the “Clap! Clap!” at the end. It wasn’t until the day after I posted it that Th3rd World Publisher Mike DeVito suggested it and I redrew the last panel immediately. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the Captain’s hair is a character all its own. People were mostly confused [...]
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COMMENTARY This is the second appearance of the Bubbles of Light. No one questioned the first appearance back in Chapter 4 and I don’t really blame them. There wasn’t much to go on. Here we get a few more clues, leading to the obvious conclusion that Swifty—or at least some iteration of him—is time-traveling. The [...]
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Oct 4, 11 | Chapter 9, “Head Games” Recap by Eric Merritt |
Jun 11, 18 | Pg. 2 “62nd Generation Mercurius” |
Mar 3, 07 | 106 – What’s in the Box? |
May 19, 22 | 890 – Loved In Her Own Way |
Jan 15, 07 | 70 – Gene and Dictator Tot Reunite |
What a fun strip this was to work on. From the dialogue dance to the pure character illustration, I just love it. What I’m trying to do is say a lot about the relationship between Captain Spectacular and Spy Gal in very few frames. Up to you whether I succeeded or not. Captain Spectacular thinking [...]
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Oct 15, 20 | 847 – Macho Verve and Vigor |
Nov 13, 19 | 812 – Spy Gal Dual Wields |
Oct 23, 08 | 174 – Big Mistake |
Oct 17, 18 | HUGE NEWS! SuperFogeys Volume One—Inaction Heroes now on Kickstarter! |
Mar 25, 11 | Pg. 8 “Get Her” |
COMMENTARY The relationship between Spy Gal and Star Maiden is one of my most favorite things in the SuperFogeys, and I don’t spend nearly enough time on it. Spy Gal’s mothering instinct really comes out when she sees someone suffering and yet…she’s still Spy Gal. I think I could have drawn the light effect better [...]
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Dec 12, 16 | 718 – What is Deserved |
Sep 19, 11 | 352 – Megatron is Copyrighted |
Jun 17, 10 | 261 – What Happened to Star Maiden, Pt. 3 “Feeling Refreshed” |
Mar 2, 20 | 835 – Because of the Struggle |
Aug 20, 18 | Swifty Origin, Pg. 12 “Party Hard” |
COMMENTARY The angry looks that the Space Pig and Tangerine are giving each are meant to suggest a fallout between them after the events of “The Secret Origin of the Space Pig” (which you can find in SuperFogreys Vol.1, on sale in the SF Store). Tangerine finally arriving at Valhalla was a long time in [...]
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Aug 5, 08 | 151 – Peanut Butter Cookies |
Sep 11, 13 | 534 – Tangerine’s Mission |
Oct 7, 10 | 279 – Gina Galloway |
Mar 18, 07 | 117 – Dementia |
Jun 4, 12 | 417 – Guess Who’s Back? |
COMMENTARY Tangerine’s body design presents some unique challenges. He doesn’t really have elbows (the way I draw him anyway) and he’s so much shorter than everybody else that whenever he appears it requires some rethinking of how I usually frame the characters in the panel. I thought long and hard about the use of the [...]
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Nov 4, 13 | 545 – Do What is Right |
Apr 18, 11 | 308 – Time Displaced/Erased/No Taste |
Nov 17, 09 | SF Origins: Spy Gal vs. Star Maiden, Pg. 3 “The Last Punch” |
Jan 15, 07 | 70 – Gene and Dictator Tot Reunite |
Oct 22, 09 | 230 – Cleaning Out Her Ears |
COMMENTARY I felt like, with two and half years behind me and being in the middle of a complicated (in comparison, anyway), back-and-forth chapter like this one that I needed to take a minute to acknowledge just what the heck was going on. Spy Gal is admittedly making some leaps in logic here, but it’s [...]
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Oct 25, 17 | 741 – Scumbag Jerry |
Jul 31, 15 | 663 – Pandora’s Box |
Jul 8, 08 | Guest Strip by Brian Anderson of “Dog Eat Doug!” |
Dec 24, 12 | Merry Christmas From The SuperFogeys! |
Dec 4, 13 | 554 – Not In a Way That Matters |
COMMENTARY One of the more awkwardly organized strips I’ve done, design-wise. The balloons in the second panel just would not fit in a natural way. In comics, you generally want the person speaking first on the left side of the panel and the next person to the right of them and so on. Usually, I [...]
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Dec 2, 13 | 553 – Capture and Rescue Mission |
Apr 5, 07 | 135 – The Tale of How Captain Spectacular Met Dr. Klein, Conclusion |
Aug 31, 15 | 676 – Jerry, Meet Thrice Evil |
May 7, 12 | 409 – Walkin’ Blues |
Oct 9, 13 | 542 – The Visible Man |
COMMENTARY When I created Tangerine about two years prior to the strips on this page being drawn, this strip and the one above were in my original notes. Tangerine’s entire personality was then extrapolated from these two conversations with Jerry. The Pink Shade is a character that gets referenced now and again, but her actual [...]
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Aug 21, 08 | 156 – An Utter Lack of Decorum |
Dec 4, 13 | 554 – Not In a Way That Matters |
Oct 12, 12 | Pg. 8 “Gross Fetuses” |
Aug 7, 08 | 152 – Best Man |
Dec 29, 10 | Guest Strip by Javier Del Villar (Extra) |
COMMENTARY Arachno is supposed to be an analogue to Spider-Man. He’s probably too dead-on in name to every make an actual appearance, but he provides a good shorthand here to illustrate just how unusual the public turning against him was to the Captain. SUPERFOGEYS 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY This week marks the 2-year anniversary of both the [...]
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Aug 14, 20 | 845 – Better and Better |
Apr 22, 11 | Pg. 2 “The Boy Who Lived” |
Dec 16, 10 | 289 – Not Yet |
Dec 9, 08 | 186 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 3 “Going Up” |
Aug 11, 14 | Marc Lapierre and The SuperFogeys |
COMMENTARY This is maybe one of the most economical and tragic things I’ve ever written. Really, the intent was to begin really breaking down Tangerine’s character, but Captain Spectacular got swept up in that tide as well as we see his fatal character flaw—when things are going well, the Captain does just fine. When things [...]
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May 27, 11 | Pg. 7 “In the Future” |
Mar 24, 07 | 123 – The Box is Opened |
Sep 14, 11 | 351 – Dreams Come Crashing In |
Jan 26, 10 | SF Origins: The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular, Pg. 3 “Explosive Ending” |
COMMENTARY I had to do a bit of a storytelling shuffle to keep Tangerine away from Dr. Rocket until this point in the story. I love his entrance here. In particular, I loved doing the growling drawing of Tangerine. The red color isn’t meant to suggest that Tangerine can actually turn red—it’s just an artistic [...]
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Jan 3, 11 | Guest Strip by Javier Del Villar, Part One |
Nov 9, 16 | 712 – Ah-ah-ah |
Jan 6, 20 | 821 – Frightening Frogs |
Nov 5, 06 | 33 – Why Walk When You Can Fly? |
Jun 8, 10 | SF Origins: The Life and Times of Soviet Sam, Pg. 3 “Valhalla” |
COMMENTARY One of my all-time favorite strips. Visually, I think this just works. I think I had just rewatched the movie Quiz Show shortly before writing this strip, so I had Geritol on the brain. Great movie. SUPERFOGEYS FALLING BEHIND IN WEBCOMIC READER’S CHOICE AWARDS The SuperFogeys need your help! Those of you that have [...]
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Mar 24, 07 | 123 – The Box is Opened |
Nov 14, 06 | 42 – Dr. Rocket Needs a Special Kind of Healing |
Oct 7, 06 | 14 – Watchin’ TV |
May 20, 08 | SF Collection #4 Cover |
Sep 7, 12 | Pg. 5 “Who Squished?” |
COMMENTARY In the first two panels we see that Swifty did indeed use the Space Pig Urine given to him by Dr. Rocket earlier in the chapter. I wish I had chosen a different wall color for the background of this strip (and all those remaining in Chapter 5 for that matter). That brown is [...]
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Nov 17, 20 | 856 – Grab That Rabbit! |
Aug 17, 16 | 691 – That’s Enough |
Oct 2, 13 | 540 – Jerry is Committed |
Dec 30, 08 | Guest Strip by Chris Blanchard of “Renaissance Guy!” |
Aug 12, 08 | 153 – 6 a.m., Eighth Street |
COMMENTARY There wasn’t room in the flashback of this chapter to make it explicit that Dr. Rocket was responsible for the public turning against the Captain in the 70’s, so it was nice of Tangerine to make that point for us here. Unfortunately, this strip and the next few are far too wordy. I had [...]
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May 7, 12 | 409 – Walkin’ Blues |
Dec 5, 12 | 464 – Cuffed |
May 20, 11 | Pg. 6 “Invisible” |
Jul 31, 08 | 150 – Star Maiden and Clovis the Bear |
Sep 11, 08 | 162 – Just Another Purty Face? |
COMMENTARY This strip angered a lot of people. No one—and I mean NO ONE—felt that Captain Spectacular would just stand by and watch Spy Gal get knocked out like that. Honestly, I couldn’t understand that reaction based on what we’d just seen in his flashback. Not only is the Captain flawed, but Tangerine is his [...]
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Apr 8, 11 | Cover |
May 26, 15 | What You’ve Been Waiting to Know… |
Nov 25, 13 | 551 – The Guthrie is Turned On |
Apr 1, 07 | 131 – Spy Gal Cares |
Sep 27, 11 | Chapter 4, “Dictator Tot’s Revenge” Recap by Jeremy Bentley |
COMMENTARY I want to do an entire comic book of Star Maiden just walking around Valhalla and interacting with everyone. She’s so, so much fun to write and draw. Some of my most favorite lines from her ever are in this strip. I wanted to cut down the dialogue for the print edition, but I [...]
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Nov 2, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal, Pg. 10 “Anywhere But Here” |
Oct 17, 06 | 24 – Too Little Too Late |
Oct 9, 08 | 170 – There Will Be Blood |
Mar 19, 18 | 772 – Showdown at the New California Coast |
Mar 3, 11 | 298 – Vile Villainous Vole |
COMMENTARY Here’s another idea that’s too big for the strip format. I’m just really pushing the boundaries of what a strip can do. Thankfully, I don’t have anything like a syndicate to answer to, so I can do this, get this idea out of the way, and regret not expanding it two strips later. Still, [...]
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Jun 15, 10 | SF Origins: The Life and Times of Soviet Sam, Pg. 4 “Pantsless” |
Oct 10, 12 | 448 – Thinking Like a Hero |
Sep 14, 15 | 682 – Milk and Cookies |
May 30, 11 | 320 – One Thing Left |
Sep 29, 09 | SF Origins: Herman’s Story, Pg. 5 “Time to Move On” |
COMMENTARY No single strip that I have done (at the time of this writing I’m about 10 strips into Chapter 7) has caused as much controversy as this one. The comments exploded when this strip hit. I think maybe 1% of the audience saw this coming. And, even if they did, no one thought it [...]
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Oct 19, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal, Pg. 8 “Back Home” |
Nov 30, 16 | 715 – Master and Student |
Sep 16, 08 | 163 – Dr. Klein’s Got Some Splainin’ to Do |
Nov 26, 12 | 461 – He Escaped |
Jan 28, 13 | 475 – Too Old For This |
PINKERTON MOVES OVER TO TH3RD WORLD Didja’ hear? Mike Witmer has moved his great, abso-stinkin’ hilarious webcomic Pinkerton over to Th3rd World. Now, Pinkerton has been with Th3rd World for a few months now, but last week Mike finally make the big move of making Th3rd World the exclusive spot for all things Pinkerton. The best [...]
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Feb 28, 18 | 767 – Done Pretending |
Mar 5, 18 | 768 – Boy-Haired Crone |
Nov 28, 11 | 366 – Who Dares? |
Feb 26, 18 | 766 – Always |
Jun 7, 22 | 895 – Can’t Stop Won’t Stop |
SUPERFOGEYS ON DIGITAL STRIPS Well, sadly, SF went out on the first round of Webcomic Idol. Were my readers confused about the voting process? Did SF have a target on its back? Were the other comics that much better? Is this all a result of a smear campaign by Marvel and DC for damage done [...]
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May 24, 22 | 891 – Third Eye Blind |
Feb 25, 10 | 245 – One Week Later |
Dec 15, 20 | 862 – That’s It!? |
Oct 22, 06 | 28 – The Tragedy of Jerry |
TWITTER Hey, anyone else on Twitter? I’ve been on it for about a month now and I think I’ve moved past the addictive stage and into the comfortable I’ll-post-when-I-really-have-something stage. It’s fun. See my Twitter page here. Right now I’m slowly working my way through adding commentary to the strips in Chapter 5. Every time I [...]
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Oct 24, 12 | 452 – Book of Mormon Story |
Aug 13, 12 | 435 – A Job Well Done |
Oct 10, 12 | 448 – Thinking Like a Hero |
Nov 18, 13 | 549 – Zurida’s Visitors |
May 9, 18 | 785 – What Spy Gal Wants |
UPDATE! CALL FOR GUEST STRIPS Each year I schedule a one week break for myself around Christmastime. I never miss updates, so I figured I deserve at least a week away. Nice time to recharge. Last year, I just didn’t post anything during that week, but now it occurs to me that there might be [...]
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Feb 5, 07 | 95 – Flying Away |
Jun 29, 15 | 649 – Can You Take a Punch? |
Mar 19, 09 | 200 – Where is He!? |
Jan 15, 20 | 824 – Knives Out |
ORIGINAL ART SALE UPDATE! Went ahead and added a piece of art to the store today! Man, that was a lot easier than I thought it would be! Just one strip’s pencils right now, but more to come. Make your requests now! Check out the pencils to 106! Okay, I’ve brought this up before, but [...]
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Aug 31, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal, Pg. 1 “Bored” |
Jul 25, 14 | Pg. 4 “Daddy’s Little Girl Packs a Punch” |
Oct 31, 11 | 359 – Warmed Up |
Jan 1, 14 | Guest Strip by Crystal Murphy, 4! |
Aug 27, 12 | 439 – So IMPOLITE! |
MOTHER OF AN EPISODE So little dialogue…so much drawing…and I don’t like any of it. I’ve gotten slammed in the past for being too critical of my work. Whenever I get into that mode, people usually do one of two things: either 1) defend my work against me and my wonderful insecurities or 2) tell [...]
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Sep 24, 12 | GUEST STRIP by Gwen Patton! |
Jan 2, 14 | Guest Strip by Crystal Murphy, 5 |
Aug 23, 10 | SF Origins: Baby Swifty’s First Words, Pg. 2 “Preposterous” |
May 21, 09 | 209 – Coming to Jesus |
Jan 13, 07 | 68 – Jerry’s Computer Troubles |
FUNERAL It didn’t occur to me until this week how coincidentally timed this chapter of SF is. Unless I miss my guess, today is the 11th anniversary of my own father’s funeral. He died on the 23rd of November. The story of all that is amazing, funny, tragic, epic, inspiring and defining (for me). Yes, [...]
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COMIC MAKING AND THE HOLIDAYS DO NOT MIX Oh, man! I finished the strip you see above yesterday. Yesterday. I never do that. I’m admant about having Tuesday’s strip done by at least Thursday the week prior. Guess what happened last Thursday? I ended up having to stay up late on Saturday in order to [...]
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Aug 11, 22 | 914 – Time to Go |
Jun 1, 12 | Pg. 4 “The O’Hara Family Tragedy” |
Feb 16, 10 | SF Origins: The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular, Pg. 6 “The Bottle and the Women” |
Dec 18, 19 | 820 – Heart-Stopping Great Looks |
MY YOUNGEST BROTHER GOT ENGAGED! This has no relation to SuperFogeys! But I’m excited for him! She’s a great girl! Virtual (non-alcoholic) toast! 588 B.C. As most of you have already guessed, this little origin story starts with a very real event–that of the Babylonian invasion of Israel. What happened was the ruling power in [...]
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Dec 10, 20 | 861 – tink tink tink |
Jul 14, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 22 “The Society of Heroes” |
Sep 10, 18 | Pg. 15 “Something Missing” |
May 9, 12 | 410 – Attack of the Space Monkeys |
Jul 21, 22 | 908 – Torture |
186 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 3 “Going Up”
by Brock Heasley on December 9th, 2008RELIGION IN THE SUPERFOGEYS Well, I think it’s fair to say the last episode stirred the pot a little. And if it wasn’t the episode itself, then it was my comments. I don’t think there’s any need to rehash it all, but I just want to say that I don’t see the SuperFogeys as a [...]
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Mar 29, 07 | 128 – Only Two People in the World… |
May 11, 11 | 315 – Dr. Rocket’s Space Journey, Pt. 4: The Pilatian Power Crystal |
Nov 5, 06 | 33 – Why Walk When You Can Fly? |
Nov 19, 06 | 47 – Bingo Knight! |
Nov 29, 17 | 751 – Who Do You Think Paid for All This? |
187 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 4 “New Clothes”
by Brock Heasley on December 11th, 2008SUPERFOGEYS FEATURED ON AIN’T IT COOL NEWS! Ain’t It Cool News is the BIGGEST movie news/rumor site on the web. Every week they feature a comic book review column and every once in awhile they take a look at webcomics in their “dot.comics” feature. Well, this week Ambush Bug took a look at SuperFogeys and [...]
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Dec 7, 06 | 56 – Dr. Rocket Will Have His Revenge |
Sep 18, 16 | 700 – Happy Tenth Anniversary, SuperFogeys |
Jan 28, 10 | 241 – He’s Gone |
Oct 21, 19 | 805 – Across the Mountaintop |
Dec 15, 20 | 862 – That’s It!? |
188 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 5 “In The Dark”
by Brock Heasley on December 16th, 2008FANTASTIC SUPERFOGEYS FAN ART BY T.L. COLLINS How great is that? Big thanks to T.L. for this amazing piece of work. This is exactly the sort of thing you might have seen on the stands in 1963 in the Fogey universe! Be sure and check out T.L’s great comic Bullfinch when you get a chance. You [...]
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Jul 8, 08 | Guest Strip by Brian Anderson of “Dog Eat Doug!” |
Aug 17, 12 | Pg. 2 “Youthfulenergysupersurplus!” |
Dec 5, 06 | 54 – Gene Gets What’s Coming to Him |
Dec 24, 12 | Merry Christmas From The SuperFogeys! |
Jul 29, 15 | 662 – Lazy Villainy |
189 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 6 “The Medallion”
by Brock Heasley on December 18th, 2008LAST CALL FOR GUEST STRIPS! The last day I’m accepting guest strips for my upcoming Christmas break is fast approaching. I know for sure that some of you are working on them, so please get them in asap along with a link to your site or comic! Email your guest strip to me by 11:59pm [...]
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Mar 19, 09 | 200 – Where is He!? |
Sep 14, 12 | Pg. 6 “Who Could Have Done This?” |
Oct 3, 06 | 11 – The Power Dampener |
Mar 28, 18 | 775 – Raging Percy |
Jan 28, 10 | 241 – He’s Gone |
190 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 7 “Test Subjects”
by Brock Heasley on December 23rd, 2008GUEST STRIP SUBMISSION EXTENSION!! Okay, I think there may be a couple of you out there still who may want to submit. As such, I’m extending the deadline for submissions until 11am PST, today (Dec. 23). After that, I absolutely cannot accept any more. Email ‘em quick to heasley (at) th3rdworld.com! HIATUS Well, this the last regular [...]
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Dec 21, 10 | SF Origins: The Thrice Evil, Pg. 3 “Out of Mongoloids” |
Oct 27, 14 | 631 – Two Decisions |
Jan 18, 12 | 379 – A True Hero |
May 6, 10 | 255 – Parental Duty |
Mar 12, 12 | 394 – The Bottom Drops Out |