Another ugly, ugly strip. An important one though. This is one of those that I think people read and then didn’t ask the right questions about. Jerry’s tears are a leftover plot thread from Chapter 3. The last time anyone talked about him it was in Episode 88 when Captain Spectacular mentioned that Jerry had [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bubbles of light’
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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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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T.L. COLLINS AND THE AIDS WALK/RUN Hey all, just wanted to let you know about this great thing SuperFogeys Origins Artist T.L. Collins is doing. Show him some support, won’t you? (UPDATED WITH LINKS!) BUBBLES OF LIGHT A SuperFogeys Origins/SuperFogeys crossover? Yep. Wondering how they sync up? Well, the Bubbles of Light have shown up before. [...]
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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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SWIFTY’S NEW COSTUME This went mostly unaddressed last week, but chances are a few more of you will notice it today. Yes, it’s true that Swifty’s costume has suffered a mid-story change out of nowhere. It’s similar enough to the old one that Swifty in the Valhalla continuity won’t need changing, but it looks pretty [...]
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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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THE SUPERFOGEYS CALL-IN SHOW IS TONIGHT! Tonight, at 8pm PST, I’ll be the featured guest on the TGT Webcomics Podast for their very first Call-in Show. This will your opportunity to talk with me, live, and ask any questions you’d like as we gear up for the big ending to Chapter 9. I admit to [...]
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SILENCE IS BROKEN Welcome back, everyone! Man, last week. Last week was what I have been waiting for and working towards ever since I decided to make this little comic called SuperFogeys into an ongoing thing. I sweated and fretted over whether or not I could keep the secret and worried that, after all that work, [...]
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THE ANNOTATED SUPERFOGEYS 282 Finally, finally, finally. Future Swifty reaches his destination. It’s been a long road getting to this moment, so for those of you who need a little primer, let’s chart Future Swifty’s past appearances (appearances are in the order in which they appeared on the site–it’s debatable whether Future Swifty experienced them [...]
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CHAPTER 10, BUBBLES OF LIGHT IS OVER! Today marks the very last strip of Chapter 10, Bubbles of Light. Have some fun and read the whole thing from the beginning by clicking here. For me, this chapter was about answering questions. After upsetting the apple cart at the end of the previous chapter, I knew there was some splainin’ [...]
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Bet you thought we were done with the Bubbles of Light, didn’t you? Nope. Nuh uh. No way. Longtime readers know that a Swifty from some point in the future has been bouncing around since at Chapter 4, but keeping track of how things look from his perspective can be tricky. Time travelers are annoying [...]
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Future Swifty is back! Or is this the first time? It’s so hard to tell with him. As always, you can click on the handy Bubbles of Light tag to see all of Future Swifty’s appearances in the order in which they appeared (which isn’t necessarily the order they occurred in). If you’re a new [...]
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Annnnnnnd thus concludes the unexpectedly controversial origin story of Mega Matt. I, for one, really love this last page. My partner in crime, Marjorie Rishel did a fantastic job taking on the 1950s setting and some real-life figures I asked to be put in there. Thanks so much for taking this journey with me, Marjorie! [...]
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Oct 5, 11 | Chapter 10, “Bubbles of Light” Recap by Danny Burleson |
It’s been a long, long time since a strip has been tagged as “Bubbles of Light.” What the heck are Bubbles of Light? Here’s a tip: click on the tag below to see a good compilation of all the most important strips involving the Bubbles of Light. Once you’ve done that, come on back here [...]
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UPDATE 2! Since this time travel business has been woven so much into the background of the story of the SuperFogeys (and time travel can be kind of confusing), I want to help point you guys towards the right places as much as possible. Some of you are wondering WHY this is happening, and I [...]
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We’re back! I know this has been a bummer of a wait for you all to get to this new chapter, Chapter 17 – Invasion, Pt. 4: The End of Lies, but your patience is much appreciated. Circumstances in the past year amazingly allowed my wife and I to go to Europe for a couple [...]
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Holy cow! I can’t apologize enough for the past couple days of darkness and the slow, slow, slow SF site over the weekend. We’ve never experienced an outage like that and I hope we never have to again. Basically, what happened was the site’s server was getting bogged down with hidden junk so we moved [...]
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You asked for him, you got–well, his return was already planned for this moment. The last time we saw Swifty was in “Bubbles of Light 0.” An important SF strip if there ever was one. The Bubbles of Light, in case you don’t already know, are always a sure sign of time travel. Swifty has [...]
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UPDATE: I’m seeing a lot of confusion in the comments about the nature of what T-Magus is doing to Swifty, so Marc went ahead and updated the art a little to make it clear he is NOT using a different kind of Bubbles of Light. He’s using his own magic to hold Swifty in place. [...]
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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 [...]
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Man, this is a real trip down memory lane. Longtime readers will recognize these scenes from throughout both SuperFogeys and SuperFogeys Origins. Newbies, don’t worry. Knowing all these references or not knowing them isn’t going to impact future reading. But, for those who want to know, I present to you: annotations! Panel 1: This is [...]
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