Holy stinking snot bunnies. We just hit 600 strips. 600 STRIPS! How did this happen? How is it even possible that SuperFogeys is still going strong almost 7 years after it first debuted? I’ll tell you how: Marc Lapierre. Today marks the publication of Marc’s 300th SuperFogeys strip. Those of you with long memories will [...]
And we’re back! Thanks for your patience during the past two weeks while we rejuiced and got ready for this next chapter–which is a big one. Seriously, I know we’ve raised a lot of questions and started a lot of mysteries over the years–and certainly we’ve done some big reveals along the way–but with this [...]
This might be the most Thrice Evil (whichever incarnation in whichever story you want to pick) has ever spoken at once. It’s… weird. Marc did a bang-up job with the color orange here, and with the lighting in particular. I mean, look at panel four. Wow. That’s some solid villainy right there. Next week: A whoooole [...]
People crash through walls a lot in this saga. (<–I’m sure there are more.) You’ve met the Earth-Avalon version of the Lodge of Doom… now, here’s the Society of Heroes. To save you the trouble of looking through the tags, from left to right that’s Ms. Missile, Swifty, Raptor XII, General Will, Captain Spectacular II, [...]
There’s a little bit of an info drop in that first panel, but forget about that BECAUSE HOLY CRUD THAT SECOND PANEL! The only bad thing about it is it’s so small. Marc draws battles and combat as good as the best and he did not disappoint here. The new coloring technique he’s been using [...]
My scripts are usually pretty detailed, but this is one of those times Marc and I worked in the ‘Marvel Style’–I give Marc the general idea and he illustrates it accordingly, deciding how he wants to break things into panels and what he wants to show. I’ve learned to do this as much as possible [...]
For a second there I thought this was strip #666. Would have been appropriate if it was. I have to say it’s crazy fun to work on this alternate reality. I love what Marc did here with the Thrice Cave. OF COURSE it looks just like Thrice Evil’s head from the outside. Y’know, Thrice, that [...]
Gotta be honest with you, guys. I don’t have it in me for much of a post tonight. This unemployment thing is emotionally draining. I’m barely eating and just seem to be nervous a lot. I know things will get better, but right now I’m kind of living in the muck of it all. Apologies [...]
Marc here with a brand new strip full of Earth (or Earths) shattering information. Both Brock and I thank you for your patience while the dust settles from Brock’s unemployment situation. For the time being, we’ll be scaling back our schedule a bit to accommodate the unexpected curve balls of life. There will be no [...]
Hey, everybody! Sorry I’ve been gone so long. These past couple of weeks have been rough ones. There have been good times, but I haven’t been unemployed since I was 21-years-old and trying to figure out how this new life is supposed to work while also figuring out how to put food on the table [...]
I just can’t even comprehend the amount of work that had to go into that second panel. Strips may be small, but that deserves blowing up. Wow. I haven’t counted how many characters Marc managed to cram in there, but I know it’s a lot. I script these things but Marc always, always turns it [...]
Getting some good discussions going in the comments lately. Even though the dark secret of the SF Universe has been revealed, many of you are still wondering about certain things, certain… details that don’t quite make sense or suggest still other mysteries. There’s still some big revelations coming this chapter, don’t worry. Things are gonna [...]
Double-sized goodness! And so soon after the last one. This strip basically marks the third act of this chapter. We’re in the home stretch now! See you on Monday with 670 – “Maybe They’re Just Stopping By For a Cup of Coffee”
I really hope everyone is checking out SuperFogeys on Comixology. I truly feel like that’s the ideal reading experience. Case in point: today’s strip. Thrice Evil has a plan, and I think if you read the past couple of chapters in collected form that plan is really, really obvious. But as it is right here? [...]
This is the big moment we’ve been ramping up to (and fearing) for several chapters now. Alt. Thrice Evil. On Earth-Abbadon. It doesn’t get scarier. There’s nothing holding him back now. See you on Monday with 676 – “Jerry, Meet Thrice Evil”
This week and next week probably constitute my favorite moments in this chapter. Jerry meeting Alternate Thrice Evil is a big, big moment. Thrice has influenced and shaped Jerry in a truly twisted way. How much of that is Jerry’s fault? How much of his life is due to his own decisions? These are important [...]
This is one of those strips I can easily point to as an example of the character taking over a bit. I knew I wanted to Thrice Evil and Jerry to meet, but it wasn’t until I started scripting it that Jerry’s cheery greeting came out as absolutely how he confronts our Big Bad. It [...]
Loved the great responses to last Friday’s strip. This is my favorite sequence in this chapter and it looks like it’s yours as well. It’s a tricky thing, writing a villain. You’ve got to make them a credible threat, but at the same time you’ve got to believe they’re an actual person. You’ve got to [...]
Do we make our own choices are we subject to the whims of fate? And, anyway, what is fate? For Jerry, fate might be described as a three-pronged orange evil from another dimension. You might call it God. Or karma. Or whatever. But the question is, even with the influences and the influencers in our [...]
Since my comments on this strip are a little late, I have a opportunity to respond to the first comment right here. Jordan wants to know who is the person talking to Thrice Evil in the second panel. That would be the Cape of Wrath, a villain who was featured in two SuperFogeys Origins stories, [...]
UPDATE! Is the comic dead? No! Full details right here. Annnnnnd that’s it! Chapter over. Want to read it from the beginning? Start right here! So, Thrice Evil and the Lodge of Doom are in Abbadon and all hell is about to break loose. If you’re thinking the next chapter has lots of fighting in it… you’re [...]
UPDATE 7/13/16: SUPERFOGEYS RETURNS MONDAY, AUG. 1st, 2016. GET ALL THE DETAILS RIGHT HERE! UPDATE! Is the comic dead? No! Full details right here. ORIGINAL POST: Marc and I are about to start work on Chapter 21 and in the meantime we give you this INCREDIBLE poster courtesy of Marc to show off a bit [...]
WELCOME BACK! (First time here? Can’t remember what’s going on? Skip down to the recap.) I know… I know… you thought this would never happen. You thought we’d forgotten all about SuperFogeys. You thought we were too busy to continue telling this story to completion. Well… not gonna lie, there were a few times over [...]
This has been a long time coming. Zurida meets Earth-Avalon Thrice Evil. If you’ll recall (and you probably don’t because they were posted a long dang while ago), both Money Man and Star Matron have warned of this meeting. Not good! (He wrote, in his best Trump voice.) HOW YOU CAN GET ORIGINAL SUPERFOGEYS ART [...]
Man, I don’t even know what to say. Ten years ago this week I decided to do a little experiment: I’d draw one comic strip a day for five days, just to see if I could do it. The hook of this little comic strip–old superheroes in a nursing home–was given to me by Tad [...]
I love Death M.D.! I regret we haven’t seen too much of him since his big appearance at Dr. Rocket’s funeral. It’s almost weird seeing him in this context, years later, after SuperFogeys has taken a turn for the more serious. But weird tonal shifts are kind of our stock-in-trade around here. NEW WEBCOMIC WORTH [...]
Happy Halloween! Right at this moment it’s 1am on an early, early Monday morning and I am freezing my butt off while we shoot, of all things, a treehouse scene about 30 yards away from me. Filmmaking keeps things interesting. Thankfully, my role as DIT (the guy who gets the footage backed up and into [...]
Ah! This is so late! My schedule and life is insane right now. I am uploading this from an abandoned mental hospital right now, and that’s about as creepy as it sounds. No time for more of a post than this, I’m afraid! See you on Monday with 711 – “Fallen Son!”
Marc has really killed it with this strip (pun acknowledged). He reconfigured the action as scripted to be much better than what I wrote, and that allowed me to delete half the dialogue! Collaboration at its finest. THE FALLEN SON And so we say goodbye to Captain Emo. Longtime fans will recall he was a [...]
So sorry I couldn’t make you laugh today. U.S. ELECTION RESULTS Well… that was an election. I’ll just say it: I was not in favor of a Trump presidency. I’ll spare you all my thoughts and feelings about what’s happened and just say this: I think what saddens me most is how this election is [...]
We’ve seen General Grandstand and the Killer Limeys go down…. we watched as Money Man was crushed… we were shocked by the casual manner in which Captain Emo was dispatched… and now… Tangerine. Killed by Dr. Rocket in a manner by which, it’s safe to say, there’s no coming back from that. There’s a lot [...]
I’ve enjoyed very much the discussion about the nature of the different Deaths we’ve seen. Reminds me of the old days when speculation would run rampant with every strip we posted! I’ve refrained from involving myself too much in the conversation, but what I can tell you (and confirm!) is that each sphere–or dimension–gets their [...]
One of Thrice Evil’s more frightening powers–one that we’ve seen demonstrated before–is his ability to induce (often horrific) seemingly real-life visions in the minds of others. Percy is only the latest victim. He won’t be the last. And… just to drop a hint… could there be a false image we’ve seen since this alternate Thrice [...]
Maybe you don’t know about the Harrison Ford Finger of Doom. The fact is, in every Harrison Ford movie (yes, ALL OF THEM–I insist), our favorite Han Solo will inevitably point his index finger at someone and it always, ALWAYS portends DOOM. Massive doom. So, in the script for this strip, I actually did ask [...]
All evil despots know the best way into the hearts of the people is to humanize yourself with the fluff television interview! Become an evil despot yourself and try it. You’ll see. REMINDER! THE SUPERFOGEYS IS ON INSTAGRAM! Back in September I started posting The SuperFogeys on Instagram from the very beginning. Just this week [...]
One of the passions I’ve take up in the past few years is writing and directing my own films. Last September, I shot for five days on a short I wrote called “The Two Hundred Fifth.” Just this weekend we finally got around to doing reshoots. I try to avoid reshoots, but they are inevitable. [...]
Once in a while, I ask Marc to go double-sized (though these days it’s far more common for him to tell me it’s time to go double-sized), and he always delivers. In fact, there’s so much that’s so great about the art in this strip that I didn’t feel like the script really matched it [...]
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 [...]
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!
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 [...]
We’re back! Thank you for your patience during our brief hiatus. It takes a lot of work and time and sweat and tears to make this comic, and these breaks help us keep fresh and keep on top of it. As always, your comments and patronage are appreciated. See you on Wednesday with 816 – [...]
Bet you didn’t think you were gonna feel sorry for a cannibal today, did you? Didn’t think so. See you on Wednesday with 818 – Attack!
There’s something so ancient about this joke, but, for my money, it works. Plus, I’ve been having a lot of fun hearing more from the other villains besides Avalon Thrice. Guy’s a talker. Other people have things to say, too! See you on Monday with 819 – Time for a Refill?
I don’t know why, but I really love this strip. Probably because Thrice Evil is so genuinely afraid of these two–and we have a clue as to why! RAISED BY A DEAD MAN My father was murdered in 1996 during an armed robbery. He was a guy who lived a rather full life, and being [...]
Shamelessly ripped off from Raiders of the Lost Ark? Of course! This is SuperFogeys. We steal and remix. It’s just what we do. See you on Monday with 825 – Yummy Yummy in His Tummy!
Spy Gal! You know not what you do! Story is about to shift into a whole different gear, folks. A whole different gear… See you on Monday with 837 – So?
I hope everybody is staying safe out there and staying home as much as possible. My family and I, we’re on full lockdown. The best minds are telling us that’s the only real way to beat this thing and I believe them. Yes, there are going to be economic consequences, but better that’s better than [...]
This is a day long in coming. The Thrice Evil (Abaddon edition) has been part of the cast since Chapter 2, spending most of his time under Jerry’s control in little more than a vegetative state. He’s come out of it only twice before, once in Chapter 9 and then again in Chapter 22. And [...]
Look, if you were trapped in a vegetative state for years and years, I don’t care what else was going on, you’d seek out your favorite food, too. See you on Wednesday with 842 – Someone to Hit!
When a villain gets a hero shot, that’s when you know things are bad. See you on Thursday with 851 – Numbers Game!
Avalon Thrice Evil is not the type of person to talk through disagreements with his friends. Don’t be like Avalon Thrice Evil. See you on Tuesday with 856 – Grab That Rabbit!
You know things are dire when Captain Spectacular and Avalon Thrice Evil are on the same page. Big kudos to Marc for the awesome panel 2 splash and channeling a classic Spider-Man action trick into Harvey. UPDATE ON WEBSITE The update today is that there is no update. The site is ready to launch but [...]
Can you guess what Swifty might have in common with Indiana Jones (and, uh, me)?
Yep, that’s really it. The Pilatian Power Crystal is no more. After all that sturm und drang. But, you guys…are you ready for a look at the inner workings of Star Maiden’s mind? I know you are. See you on Thursday with 863 – In the Starry Mind Space!
Zurida is the big sister/mother we all wish we had. She just sees you. So clearly, y’know? See you on Thursday with 865 – Bringing Into Balance!
