SCROLL DOWN FOR THE MEGA DAVID REDDICK/BROCK HEASLEY ANNOUNCEMENT! WELCOME TO SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS, WES MOLEBASH! In a lot of ways, Wes Molebash is the man who got me into webcomics. Now, I don’t know if that’s something he wants to take credit for. It’s certainly not something he did consciously! It was his now finished [...]
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STAR MAIDEN’S PARENTS, BEZUEL AND NIADA This was a tricky, tricky page to script. Bezuel and Niada have a bit of a complicated interplay going on here and getting the ideas AND the emotion across was the challenge of this page. In these short origin stories the job is always the same–conveying the maximum amount [...]
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Jul 9, 08 | Guest Strip by Rufus Edge of “comicdeoxyribonucleicacid!” |
Jul 20, 11 | 335 – Diagonally |
Mar 25, 20 | 842 – Someone to Hit |
Apr 16, 12 | 403 – Don’t Say No to Dark Maiden |
Feb 1, 07 | 92 – Not the Woman He Used to Know |
WES MOLEBASH DRAWS CAPES! WES MOLEBASH DRAWS MORE STAR MAIDEN! We’re four pages into this origin and we’re only just now seeing capes! Wes has been tackling each and every beat of this story with flair and this page is no exception. Hopefully my colors aren’t mucking things up too badly. Are you reading Wes’ [...]
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THE ANNOTATED SUPERFOGEYS 260 I don’t think this strip will give you too much trouble if you haven’t read it, but if you want more background of these “new” characters from Star Maiden’s past, why not give her origin a read? I think you’ll be glad you did. THE PROBLEM WITH SUPERHEROES NOT PUBLISHED [...]
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May 27, 11 | Pg. 7 “In the Future” |
Mar 18, 07 | 117 – Dementia |
Apr 1, 11 | Pg. 9 “Always” |
Mar 27, 13 | 492 – Such Great Heights |
STAR MAIDEN’S BIPOLAR TALE Confused? We’re in flashback mode here as Star Maiden tells the tale of a recent trip she made back to her home planet. She begins her tale here. If you’d like to find out more about Star Maiden and where she came from, be sure and check out her origin here! One note [...]
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Jul 9, 12 | 427 – I Bet He Wishes He Was a Lizard |
May 14, 09 | 208 – Grab the Tush |
Sep 5, 11 | 348 – The Wheel of Fortune |
Mar 16, 07 | 115 – Star Maiden Flattens Dr. Rocket |
Feb 22, 11 | Pg. 4 “Ruined Her Show” |
BREAKING NEWS: MONSTERPLEX IS DEAD Today, quite unexpectedly, Zuda comics, the webcomics arm of DC Comics, shut down, taking my February Competition-winning comic, Monsterplex with it. Full explanation and details and thanks in this Monsterplex blog. NEW GOO. BLUE GOO. GOOEY. GOOEY. Forgive me, I’ve been a single parent to Cami this week and there’s nothing [...]
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Jan 2, 14 | Guest Strip by Crystal Murphy, 5 |
Dec 9, 13 | 555 – She’ll Kill Them All |
Jul 1, 08 | 143 – Ogle |
Mar 23, 07 | 122 – Who Will Jerry Fight? |
Jan 5, 10 | Guest Strip by Joe Cook of “Shattered Myth!” |
THE END OF CHAPTER 11, THE DOCTOR AND THE DOCTOR With today’s double-sized strip, Marc takes his art to the next level. I seriously had no idea he was capable of stuff like this when I asked him to hop onboard the SF train. You can imagine how pleased I am. But, honestly, it’s with [...]
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Apr 7, 14 | 586 – The New Percy |
Oct 4, 17 | 735 – The MSNBC-FOX News Coalition |
Dec 10, 12 | 465 – Lip Lick |
Jan 13, 14 | 562 – Violent Amputation |
Apr 23, 12 | 405 – Comparing Death Counts |
This is it! The big 400th strip! 400 freakin’ strips. Can you believe that? And, like other past centennial strips, this one brings in a pretty big reveal! What do you think of Dark Maiden? This also marks Marc’s 100th SuperFogeys strip. Take that in. That’s amazing. Never late, always getting better and better, Marc [...]
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Aug 31, 12 | Pg. 4 “Crib Cage” |
Jul 14, 14 | 609 – Humbled |
Jun 27, 12 | 424 – Somebody That He Used to Know |
Dec 3, 12 | 463 – May Percy Have a Pet? |
Mar 26, 14 | 583 – The Captain is Not as Alone as He Thinks |
Here he is, the man of the hour, President Superknocker. He’s all I hoped for and more. Any resemblance to any Presidents either living or dead is strictly coincidental. These “news strips” come from my love of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. Besides being a great story, I love how Miller tells his story [...]
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Oct 28, 10 | 282 – Mucking with Space and Time |
Dec 30, 10 | Guest Strip by Scott Gallatin of “Madscott!” (2010) |
Nov 6, 17 | 744 – The USZ is Truly a Wondrous Place |
Jan 5, 10 | Guest Strip by Joe Cook of “Shattered Myth!” |
Apr 1, 11 | Pg. 9 “Always” |
Apologies! Late post today and this time it wasn’t because of my bumbling. We’ve been experiencing some real technical difficulties in SuperFogeys Central lately and though the strip was more than done on time, it was just impossible to post it until now. Ticks me off when this happens because Marc and I work so [...]
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Dec 11, 13 | 556 – Sisters Rule, Pilatius Drools |
Aug 22, 12 | 438 – Don’t Insult the ‘Do |
Dec 9, 13 | 555 – She’ll Kill Them All |
Dec 16, 13 | 557 – Dog Off the Leash |
Nov 25, 13 | 551 – The Guthrie is Turned On |
Even the strongest of leaders know to fear the might of the Space Pigs. I’m always impressed how Marc is able to fit so many characters into a panel and still leave me room for the dialogue. It’s a real skill to be able to do that. Most artists don’t have a natural instinct for [...]
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Mar 2, 20 | 835 – Because of the Struggle |
Jan 15, 14 | 563 – Wreckage |
Mar 12, 14 | 579 – The Romantic Smell of Blood and Suffering |
Mar 4, 13 | 485 – To The Stars |
Mar 17, 14 | 580 – The Pleasure of Conquering |
Hey, gang, Marc here with the pinch hit posting for Brock. Looks like things are about to get awkward in DC, huh? Remember the last time Swifty and Star Maiden saw each other? Go back and relive some fond memories of Vegas.
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I don’t know how, but somehow Marc managed to draw what I can only describe as “an angry brain.” It’s hard to make a brain in a jar emote, but look! It does! Kudos, Marc. There was a time when Star Maiden’s father looked a little bit more like her. Don’t believe me? Check out [...]
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Dec 3, 14 | 642 – A Star Falls |
Dec 15, 20 | 862 – That’s It!? |
Nov 24, 20 | 858 – She Brewed Beer Yesterday |
Jun 11, 12 | 419 – Adrenalin |
Jun 1, 10 | SF Origins: The Life and Times of Soviet Sam, Pg. 2 “Fallen Villain” |
Everyone knows that all characters should be three dimensional. You’re more likely to believe in a fictional character when you can recognize the humanity–however manufactured–within them. One way of doing this, I’ve found, is to have characters treat some people one way and others a different way. There’s a side of Swifty that doesn’t really [...]
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Nov 6, 06 | 34 – Introducing the Healer! |
Jan 13, 20 | 823 – Beating The Enemy Back |
Jan 1, 09 | Guest Strip by Mark R. Engel of “Prematurely Disappointed!” |
Jun 11, 18 | Pg. 2 “62nd Generation Mercurius” |
Sep 28, 12 | GUEST STRIP by Crystal Murphy, Summer Fun Pt. 4 |
Happy Independence Day to my American friends! To my British friends… Happy Colonial Burden Freedom Day! I lost my own father many, many years ago, but if I could have him back as a brain in a jar with a speaker? I totally would! We could talk and… talk. That’s pretty much it. Does Bezuel [...]
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Mar 27, 13 | 492 – Such Great Heights |
Aug 26, 11 | Pg. 6 “The Missing Spark” |
Mar 13, 07 | 112 – Budapest ’68 All Over Again |
Jun 3, 10 | 259 – What Happened to Star Maiden, Pt. 1 “Homesick” |
Mar 16, 07 | 115 – Star Maiden Flattens Dr. Rocket |
Sometimes, it’s just fun to put the joke in the first panel. Really frees up the rest of the panels to just tell the story. I always admire Marc’s ability to fit epic scale into small spaces. This story is gonna get a lot bigger before it’s over, but there’s aliens afoot (er, in the [...]
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Dec 27, 11 | Guest Strip by Dan White! |
May 20, 11 | Pg. 6 “Invisible” |
Jul 29, 11 | Pg.2 “Bio Signature Giveaway” |
Dec 24, 09 | Guest Strip by Rufus Edge of “Comicdeoxyribonucleicacid!” No. 2! |
Jul 1, 10 | 263 – What Happened to Star Maiden, Pt. 5 “A Parting Gift” |
I’m trying to remember the last time I did a strip this wordy… and I’m coming up short. As usual, Marc finds a way to make it work anyway. I’m really digging writing for villains lately as well. There’s been a dearth of them up til now. And Star Maiden. Half the fun of any [...]
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Marc went with a very-different-than-normal approach to this strip and it works like gangbusters. (Which is an expression I’ve never really understood. If gangbusters work so well, why do don’t we have less gangs?) Fairly big shakeup today. And you thought Monday’s strip was big. Only two strips left in this chapter! Come back for [...]
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Oct 22, 14 | 530 – The Long Arm of the Universe |
Jun 10, 13 | 511 – Zurida’s Plan |
Jun 22, 15 | 646 – Dark Maiden Wants What Now? |
Nov 30, 16 | 715 – Master and Student |
What a fantastic job Marc did fitting in a lot of demanding action in just a few panels. Amazing. Also, looks like Dark Maiden is up to old tricks, but dow you know what’s new? THE KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN for the SUPERFOGEYS SOURCEBOOK AND ADVENTURE GAME! I’m so, so friggin’ excited about this. We’ve been working in [...]
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I hate giving Marc strips with five panels. Believe it or not, I try to strip these things back as far as I can. If I can get it down to one panel, I will, but as you all know that almost never happens. Marc had a real challenge here. He had to set up [...]
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Sep 8, 22 | 922 – The New Normal |
May 17, 08 | SF Collection #3 Cover |
Nov 4, 06 | 32 – Bingo Night Begins |
Apr 18, 12 | 404 – President Superknocker |
Nov 18, 13 | 549 – Zurida’s Visitors |
I was just looking back at Marc’s first work on SuperFogeys yesterday and it really stuck me not only how far along his line work has come, but also how much his method for coloring has changed. There’s just far more shades and details in his coloring now–things that aren’t even in the drawings themselves. [...]
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Today kicks off a short, long overdue flashback showing just what the heck happened to Dark (Star) Maiden after she left Las Vegas. While the 400th strip played out as a fun reveal, I really did see it as a promise of an untold story I’d have to tell one day. Enjoy. Why do you [...]
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Mar 24, 14 | 582 – The Discomfort of Dark Maiden |
Aug 12, 10 | 270 – Freakin’ Huge |
Jul 3, 15 | 651 – Duplicity |
Nov 20, 13 | 550 – Everything in its Right Place |
Dec 5, 16 | 716 – Boy Haircut |
There were two issues that plagued this strip kind of from the get-go. One was what Percy was going to eat in panel two. I originally scripted it as the femur of one of Zurida’s palace guards, but after seeing Marc draw it I realized that was just one cannibal too many for SuperFogeys. Plus, [...]
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Apr 1, 13 | 493 – Dr. Rocket’s Game |
Aug 12, 20 | 844 – You Got This, Percy |
Oct 13, 20 | 846 – Oh, He Dead |
Aug 5, 10 | 268 – Sick and Unflattering |
Dec 11, 13 | 556 – Sisters Rule, Pilatius Drools |
Here’s a tip to writers of comics: Wanna go easy on your artist? Script a bunch of head shots. Writing comics is often about balance. I can’t load up the detail and the backgrounds for multiple strips at a time or I’m gonna wear Marc out, so I’ve gotta also write stuff that it’s a [...]
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Nov 8, 17 | 745 – The Song of Rocket’s Loyalty |
Aug 28, 13 | 530 – Jerry’s Greatest Hits |
Mar 23, 12 | Pg. 5 “Where Are The Unicef Upstarts?” |
Nov 11, 06 | 39 – Jerry Arrives Late |
Jul 29, 08 | 149 – Santa Rocket |
One of the things that’s really hard to achieve in the strip format is any sense of scale. A comic book page gives you that vertical space that really allows you to expand the visuals out that a strip just doesn’t. True, there’s nothing saying we HAVE to do this in strips–that’s a self-imposed restriction–but [...]
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Mar 15, 07 | 114 – Enter: Star Maiden |
Nov 4, 11 | Pg. 6 “A Zombie Rabbit” |
Feb 26, 18 | 766 – Always |
Mar 21, 07 | 120 – Swifty’s Losing? |
Jul 19, 22 | 907 – Where is Sam? |
Some great, great discussion in Monday’s strip. I love that this little comic that started out as just a gagfest can inspire such great debate about such important things like temptation, what is right and wrong, and what makes a hero. I actually did post quite a few more comments than what you’ll see currently [...]
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Jun 25, 12 | 423 – Family Resemblance (or Lack Thereof) |
Sep 11, 08 | 162 – Just Another Purty Face? |
Sep 28, 11 | Chapter 5, “The Redemption of Dr. Rocket” Recap by Geoff Munn |
Jan 6, 14 | 560 – Lifeless |
Aug 17, 16 | 691 – That’s Enough |
532 – How Hard is the Rock Upon Which Stands Your Principles?
by Brock Heasley on September 4th, 2013I think that, in annals of songwriting, one of the all-time stupidest is Bryan Adams’ “Everything I Do (I Do It For You)”. In the song, Mr. Adams names all the things he’d do for his love: lie, die, walk the wire, etc. First of all, who walks on wires for their love? Is this [...]
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My mind is at peace once again. No longer do I hear the chatter and the mantra, “Bring back Mega Matt! Bring back Mega Matt!” For he is here. You may commence rejoicing. While you can… Marc, ever the artistic scientist, did a some more experimenting to achieve the art in today’s strip. In his [...]
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Dec 8, 14 | The SuperFogeys 2015 Teaser and Special Announcements |
Oct 9, 08 | 170 – There Will Be Blood |
Nov 1, 17 | 743 – Never Inspired Anybody |
May 25, 12 | Pg. 3 “A Couple of Brothers” |
Aug 18, 09 | SF Origins: Tangerine, Pg. 4 “Justice” |
I may have overextended a bit with this one. For those of you keeping track at home, there’s 7 characters in panel 2. You artists out there know that the more characters you add to a panel, the longer that panel takes. I kind of put Marc to work on this one since panels 1 [...]
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Mar 19, 09 | 200 – Where is He!? |
Aug 8, 16 | 688 – Zurida, The Peacemaker |
Mar 11, 13 | 487 – Innocent Travelers |
Nov 2, 11 | The 2nd SuperFogeys Free Comic Book Day Page |
Jan 1, 10 | Guest Strip by Chris Watkins of “Odori Park!” |
It’s the small SF 550! The milestone that isn’t! Do you feel it though? Pieces… pieces moving into place. Marc once again did a stellar job fitting a lot of characters into a small space. I’m always so grateful he’s on my team. What’s going on behind the scenes right now? (aka why are you [...]
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Jul 6, 15 | 652 – On the Great Wall |
Sep 30, 08 | 167 – Captain Spectacular’s Shame |
Apr 18, 11 | 308 – Time Displaced/Erased/No Taste |
Dec 14, 10 | SF Origins: The Thrice Evil, Pg. 2 “No One Should Die Among Strangers” |
Jul 9, 18 | Pg. 6 “Date or Fight?” |
Marc is just killin’ it with these interior Palace scenes. I might have said that before, but I can’t really say it enough. There’s a lot more meat to this strip that might at first appear to a casual reader. You’ll recall Zurida got the power crystal from Jerry and that Jerry confessed to Spy [...]
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Aug 12, 08 | 153 – 6 a.m., Eighth Street |
Jan 7, 13 | 469 – Beating Into Submission with Peace |
Feb 8, 12 | 385 – Tiger Dung |
Sep 30, 10 | 278 – The Others |
Nov 18, 08 | 180 – The Many Crimes of Dr. Rocket |
The important thing to remember with this one is that the heroes are all standing by watching this whole exchange go down. This is where webcomics can get a little frustrating because it’s easy to forget stuff like that when 5 days pass between updates. But, yes, all of this is happening while everyone is [...]
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Sep 12, 12 | 444 – A New Mission |
May 11, 11 | 315 – Dr. Rocket’s Space Journey, Pt. 4: The Pilatian Power Crystal |
Mar 12, 18 | 770 – Bumps in the Road |
Jul 16, 14 | 610 – Do the most you can do. |
Dec 17, 20 | 863 – In the Starry Mind Space |
Okay, I’m kind of not-so-secretly proud of the title for today’s strip. I probably shouldn’t be. Marc has really been digging into these villain scenes and I couldn’t be happier with the result. What’s even more impressive is that he’s doing all this concurrently with his always hoppin’ commission work AND the extensive sketch work [...]
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Oct 15, 20 | 847 – Macho Verve and Vigor |
Apr 20, 10 | SF Origins: Star Maiden, Pg. 2 “Into The Night” |
Dec 5, 12 | 464 – Cuffed |
Apr 17, 13 | 498 – Zurida’s Conditions |
Dec 19, 12 | 468 – Jerry’s Savior |
I was positively knocked out by that first panel. That’s a lot of very tiny characters Marc fit in there, and I can identify all of them. Pretty snazzy. For those of you just joining us… this what it looks like when it hits the fan. Tangerine, who has repented of his killing ways, has [...]
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Nov 6, 13 | 546 – Tangerine Makes a Decision |
Dec 9, 13 | 555 – She’ll Kill Them All |
Jun 2, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 16 “Eagle vs. Bear” |
Jan 13, 07 | 68 – Jerry’s Computer Troubles |
There’s a lot I could say about this strip, but I think it’s better left for you guys below to get the conversation started. We had a great one a couple days ago and I don’t want to muddy the waters with my stupid thoughts… yet. For those looking for a refresher, this is not [...]
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Sep 9, 13 | 533 – Mega Matt Tells It |
Oct 31, 12 | 454 – The New Congress |
Oct 21, 08 | 173 – The Blender of Vengeance |
Aug 6, 18 | Swifty Origin, Pg. 10 “The Heart” |
Feb 10, 11 | 295 – It’s Got Him Thinkin’ |
You guys are really digging into the final strips of this chapter and I could not love that more. In the end, the most immediate and important reaction to the previous strip is, of course, Dark Maiden’s. And here you go. Her unique psychosis (she’s manifested three unique personalities so far–normal, evil and crazy) makes [...]
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Sep 18, 15 | 684 – Better Than Dyin’ |
Jul 22, 10 | 266 – The Greatest Book Ever Written |
Sep 18, 16 | 700 – Happy Tenth Anniversary, SuperFogeys |
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Feb 16, 10 | SF Origins: The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular, Pg. 6 “The Bottle and the Women” |