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This is one of those that’s a favorite of a lot of people (or so I’m told) but that I’ve never really liked much. Bathroom humor always feels cheap and forced to me. On these early strips I was drawing at a smaller size and using paper and pens that were quite a bit different [...]
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| Dec 10, 09 | 237 – A Surprise Visitor |
| Oct 7, 19 | 801 – The Next Best Thing |
| Jul 13, 10 | SF Origins: The Life and Times of Soviet Sam, Pg. 8 “Sweet Dreams” |
| Aug 21, 13 | 528 – Spy Gal vs. Jerry |
| Mar 26, 09 | 201 – The Orphan BBQ Will Have to Wait |
After I did the first 10 SuperFogeys strips on my blog at MySpace, I decided to try to find a place to get the strip hosted and see if I could produce something like it on a regular basis. When the SuperFogeys did find a host site (pre-Th3rd World) I decided to start the strip [...]
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| Jul 13, 15 | 655 – He’s In |
| Mar 2, 10 | SF Origins: The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular, Pg. 9 “Mature Love” |
| Jun 2, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 16 “Eagle vs. Bear” |
| Jul 22, 15 | 659 – Wasting Time |
| Jan 8, 18 | 752 – Like Jerry |
This is the first strip where I’m really demonstrating the perverseness of Dr. Rocket, an aspect of his personality that would come to define him later. It’s hard writing a perverse character in what is essentially an all-ages strip, but I think this strip is a good example of how it can be done. It’s [...]
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| Dec 23, 11 | Pg. 6 “Battle in the Skies” |
| Aug 18, 14 | 618 – Thanks to Money Man |
| Dec 16, 10 | 289 – Not Yet |
| Jun 14, 22 | 897 – Streaking Past |
| Jul 9, 18 | Pg. 6 “Date or Fight?” |
I knew I wanted Dr. Rocket’s monologue to be about how he got Spy Gal unconscious, but I wanted his means of accomplishing that to be something humorous, brief and unique. I thought he might drug her, but just any ol’ drug wouldn’t do. It had to be something exotic. Boom: Space Pig Urine. It [...]
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| Nov 5, 12 | 455 – You’re Not My Father! |
| Nov 11, 10 | 284 – Pairing Off |
| Apr 7, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 8 “Ticking Bomb” |
| Sep 10, 18 | Pg. 15 “Something Missing” |
| Aug 15, 11 | 342 – The Wrong Man |
There are essentially two ways to do a comic strip (as I see it): with or without a continuing story. The intro of Spy Gal is when I realized that I just wasn’t capable of doing one-off jokes. I ALWAYS have a story to tell. Spy Gal was originally supposed to be a character named [...]
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| Sep 22, 06 | 1 – Introducing Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket! |
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| Oct 10, 12 | 448 – Thinking Like a Hero |
For Spy Gal’s intro, I wanted to push the boundaries of good taste a little. Is it right to make light of the dementia that all-too-often takes over the minds of older people? …Depends on how you do it. Turns out Spy Gal was faking, but it’s a theme I plan on revisting. Why Turnip? [...]
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| Sep 24, 12 | GUEST STRIP by Gwen Patton! |
| Aug 3, 12 | Pg. 6 “Inevitably Betrayed” |
| Dec 3, 14 | 642 – A Star Falls |
| Mar 6, 07 | 108 – Spy Gal Will Protect Jerry |
| Sep 9, 10 | 275 – A Moment of Silence |
It still pains me to look at the art in a lot of these early strips. Where the crud are the frickin’ wheelchairs? The only answer I have is that I was lazy and was trying to draw as little as possible. I really saw the strips as more of an exercise in pacing and [...]
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| Oct 28, 11 | Pg. 5 “Knife in the Mouth” |
| Nov 20, 13 | 550 – Everything in its Right Place |
| Jul 5, 22 | 903 – Big Dumb Floating Ape |
| Nov 4, 06 | 32 – Bingo Night Begins |
| Aug 27, 14 | 621 – Jerry’s Powers |
his is the second of the additions I made to the original 10 black and white strips I did to kick off the SuperFogeys. Originally, episode 8 went into what is now episode 10 without this minor stopover to make explicit what was once subtle. She’s Spy Gal. Spy Gal is a spy. Duh. It [...]
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| Apr 13, 11 | 307 – T-Magus |
| Nov 11, 19 | 811 – Attack Pattern |
| Feb 26, 14 | 575 – Undermined |
| Oct 5, 16 | 704 – Ankle Biters |
I had written myself into a bit of a corner. I had Spy Gal come to Valhalla, but she didn’t really need to be there. Somehow, I had to make her stay. Enter the Orderly (later named Gene) and the Power Dampener. Visually, Spy Gal would never be the same after this strip and I [...]
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| Sep 15, 14 | The Principle of Order |
| Dec 16, 10 | 289 – Not Yet |
| Jan 2, 12 | 374 – A Spy Gal Shaped Hole |
| Mar 12, 12 | 394 – The Bottom Drops Out |
| Nov 6, 08 | 177 – Lay Some More On Me |
This is one of my absolute favorites. I think it’s one of the funniest last panels I’ve ever come up with. So, of course, only about half the people who read it actually get it. This one gets knocked down by a lot of people for not standing too well on its own. I suppose [...]
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| Sep 29, 11 | Chapter 6, “Funeral for a Frenemy” Recap by Crystal Murphy |
| Feb 13, 13 | 480 – A Bevy of Buxom Beach Beauties |
| Feb 11, 10 | 243 – A Deal is a Deal |
| Feb 12, 14 | 571 – ZBC Nightly News with Richelieu Madden and Gwen Dreck |
| Sep 9, 10 | 275 – A Moment of Silence |
Time between the creation of SuperFogeys 12 and 13: 2 months. This is the first strip that really sets the tone for what the SuperFogeys would be. The art is finally coming into its own, resulting in a strip that I’m really proud of. I love the subtle pacing of the camera zoom. It’s a [...]
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| Aug 7, 13 | 524 – Cracked |
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| Sep 12, 12 | 444 – A New Mission |
This is one of those strips I really, really struggled with. I knew the last thing I wanted was for Dr. Rocket to successfully take advantage of Spy Gal. I mean, this just isn’t that kind of strip. The simplest solution would have been to have Jerry or Captain Spectacular bust through the wall and [...]
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| Dec 19, 12 | 468 – Jerry’s Savior |
| Feb 29, 12 | 391 – Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun… |
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| Apr 13, 12 | Pg. 8 “Enter: The Thrice Evil” |
| May 17, 08 | SF Collection #3 Cover |
Although I didn’t realize it at the time, this was a step in the right artistic direction for the SuperFogeys. The changing camera views were necesitated by the storyline and made for a much stronger reading experience. There’s a little easter egg in this one with the picture of the girl on the wall in [...]
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| Apr 30, 12 | 407 – Spy Days Are Over |
| Feb 27, 13 | 484 – Beaten Into Submission |
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| Aug 4, 22 | 912 – Jerry Speaks |
| Apr 21, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 10 “The Lodge of Doom” |
Me: Hey, I’ve got a great idea. Me: What’s that? Me: You know how we could get a lot of strips done quickly? Me: How? Me: We could just cut/paste all the best bits from previous strips and add only minor alterations! Me: Genius. Future Me: I beg to differ.
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My lazy self strikes again. As for the story here, this strip was important to me because I had a very real fear at the time that it was going to be perceived that I had a hatred towards women. Dumb, right? I mean, Dr. Rocket is a character, he doesn’t speak for me, but [...]
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| Oct 3, 06 | 11 – The Power Dampener |
| Apr 3, 13 | 494 – Hugging in the Throne Room |
| Sep 28, 11 | Chapter 5, “The Redemption of Dr. Rocket” Recap by Geoff Munn |
| Mar 7, 12 | 393 – Impasse |
| Oct 19, 12 | Pg. 9 “Let’s Go!” |
Double-sized strips are always fun, but I’m not sure this is the best use of it. The flashback certainly was fun to do. The idea here should be clear: Jerry is Captain Spectacular’s sidekick. This is all set-up and revelation. You should be getting the idea by now that Chapter 1 is really Jerry’s story.
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| Aug 3, 12 | Pg. 6 “Inevitably Betrayed” |
| May 4, 11 | 313 – Dr. Rocket’s Space Journey, Pt. 2: A Lovely Woman |
| Oct 13, 06 | 20 – Worse Than He Thought |
| Jan 30, 13 | 476 – Regret |
| Jul 6, 12 | Pg. 4 “The Very, Very Long Battle” |
One of the better-paced strips I’ve done (or so I’ve been told) and a solid, economical reintroduction to three of the main characters.
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| Jun 17, 11 | Pg. 10 “Lost Faith” |
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| Oct 14, 11 | Pg. 3 “Enter: Jimmy-Go-Dead” |
Some people thought Dr. Klein’s look in the third panel coupled with his German name mean that Dr. Klein is evil. I won’t comment on the prejudices of my readership, but I will say that I did not have that in mind when I drew it. I was just experimenting with what I could do [...]
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| Mar 11, 10 | 247 – Not a Busload of Strangers |
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| Aug 21, 19 | 793 – The Hero He Hates to Be |
| Jul 22, 15 | 659 – Wasting Time |
Ugh. This is my failed experiment. Like Strip 25, I had two ideas for a strip and tried to make them into one. As drawn, panel 3 preceded panel 2, but at the last minute I got the idea to integrate them more. It didn’t work. Not helping matters is the last panel. For the [...]
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| Oct 5, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal, Pg. 6 “The Lips That Should Not Be Touched” |
| Aug 4, 22 | 912 – Jerry Speaks |
| Mar 16, 20 | 839 – What What |
| Mar 19, 14 | 581 – Gorgeous Guy Has Feelings |
| Jan 2, 13 | Guest Strip by Brock Heasley (???) |
Like Spy Gal in Chapter 1, I had spent two strips building up the arrival of the Healer. I wanted his entrance to be important and surprising. Originally, the Healer was going to be an old man in a cloak. Much more like Dr. Strange or something like that. After being comfortable with that for [...]
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| Jan 6, 09 | Guest Strip by T.L. Collins of “Bullfinch!” |
| Apr 13, 12 | Pg. 8 “Enter: The Thrice Evil” |
| Aug 31, 11 | 347 – Witch Fontana’s Fortunate Fortunes |
| Aug 19, 15 | 671 – A Little Window Above My Head |
| Nov 15, 06 | 43 – The Healer Approaches the Captain |
The SuperFogeys are so stiff and immobile, it was fun to cut loose a little on a character like the Healer. I made it double-sized because I wanted the figures to breathe a little and see what I could do with a character who is real expressive. There’s some good lines in this one (Dr. [...]
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| Nov 24, 14 | 639 – What She Had to Do |
| Nov 18, 08 | 180 – The Many Crimes of Dr. Rocket |
| Jan 21, 10 | 240 – ZAP! |
| Jun 2, 14 | 600 – Earth-Avalon |
| Mar 16, 07 | 115 – Star Maiden Flattens Dr. Rocket |
More Healer nonsense. You can see how my camera is really changing up now. I’ve left behind almost completely the cut/paste of the previous chapter, something I was real glad to do. The Space Pig is always fun to bring back. There’s no way to explain him and his function every time out, so I [...]
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| May 13, 11 | Pg. 5 “Jerry the Superhero” |
| Jan 28, 10 | 241 – He’s Gone |
| Nov 26, 14 | 640 – Jerry Must Come Back |
| Jul 10, 08 | Guest Strip by Lucas Turnbloom of “Imagine This!” |
| Mar 12, 07 | 111 – Forgive Dr. Rocket |
This is a strip I’m really proud of. It’s very much a side-trip from the main story, but I think it’s poignant in a way that SuperFogeys hasn’t been up until now. While writing the SuperFogeys, I often have to ask myself, “What will it be like when I’m old?” I guess this is one [...]
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| Nov 6, 08 | 177 – Lay Some More On Me |
| Jan 14, 10 | 239 – How Captain Spectacular Knows The Third Man |
| Jul 9, 14 | 608 – Gumdrops and Rainbows |
| Mar 19, 09 | 200 – Where is He!? |
| Mar 26, 07 | 125 – Jerry’s Down |
Jerry was late to the party because I needed to remind the audience of his feelings for Spy Gal. I’m sure there was a better way to do that. Not a favorite of mine.
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| Oct 22, 12 | 451 – Will Tangerine Help? |
| Nov 21, 11 | 364 – Comrade |
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| Aug 22, 11 | 344 – Now |
| Oct 21, 06 | 27 – Spy Gal’s Explanation |
Yeah, I did a Viagra joke. You almost have to, given the subject matter. I think I did it in the best possible way. It was important to me to have the Healer is so disapproving and grossed out. I think that’s how we all felt the first time we saw Bob Dole talking about [...]
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I had been looking for an excuse to do a single-panel strip for a long time and this conclusion of the Healer’s interviews with all the SuperFogeys was a good excuse for it. Originally, the dialogue on this one was vastly different. It was a back and forth between the Healer and the Captain; none [...]
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| Jul 6, 11 | 331 – Paradise |
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44 – Beginning the Tale of How Captain Spectacular was Paralyzed
by Brock Heasley on November 16th, 2006This is one of those connecting strips that I didn’t know I needed until I did. Strip 45 was always a story I was going to tell, but before I got to that story I realized that I had nothing leading into it. What would be Dr. Rocket’s final scheme? Why, bunnies of course. Why [...]
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| Sep 14, 15 | 682 – Milk and Cookies |
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| Jun 18, 09 | 212 – The O’Hara Brothers |
45 – The Tale of How Captain Spectacular was Paralyzed, Conclusion
by Brock Heasley on November 17th, 2006See the bunny? I liked the idea that Dr. Rocket kept one bunny for himself. Of course it begs the question…what happened to the bunny? That answer is coming in Chapter 6. This strip took a little longer than your average strip. In the end, I think I probably pumped a little too much detail [...]
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| Mar 10, 07 | 109 – WHO THREW THIS!? |
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| Oct 25, 17 | 741 – Scumbag Jerry |
Another “ugh” strip for me. I have a real problem with drawing too big for the panel. I truly need to zoom the camera out more. The Healer declaring the Captain the winner without checking the score should come across as a bit strange. He’s just being too nice. It’s the first hint there might [...]
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| May 25, 11 | 319 – The Plans of Dr. Klein, Pt. 2 “Isn’t Everybody?” |
| Aug 16, 22 | 915 – Return to Valhalla |
| Dec 28, 09 | Guest Strip by Don Oskowski of “Conduit Flux!” |
| Oct 2, 06 | 10 – Why Spy Gal Came to Valhalla |
| Jan 15, 14 | 563 – Wreckage |
I absolutely love this strip. This is a case of art elevating the script. On paper, this one didn’t seem like it would be much. If anything, I felt like I was trying to do too much. However…I think it works. Bingo Knight was a character name given to me by a reader of my [...]
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| Sep 25, 06 | 4 – Who is Coming to Valhalla? |
| Nov 26, 14 | 640 – Jerry Must Come Back |
| Dec 23, 09 | SF Origins: Harvey the Science Rabbit, Pt. 1, Pg. 5 “ |
| Apr 5, 07 | 135 – The Tale of How Captain Spectacular Met Dr. Klein, Conclusion |
| May 14, 09 | 208 – Grab the Tush |
I tried and tried to not make this one a double-sized. I had just done one and I didn’t want to take the time to do another one, but there just wasn’t any other way to make it work. Too many characters all interacting with each other. It has been said that this is one [...]
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| May 26, 15 | What You’ve Been Waiting to Know… |
| Jan 25, 12 | 381 – Shut Up |
| Nov 2, 16 | 710 – Crimson Oils |
| Jul 18, 14 | Pg. 3 “Naughty Girl” |
| Nov 4, 19 | 809 – The Jerry Cradle |
I’m color-blind (mildly so, but still…), but the SuperFogeys are a one man show so you all have to put up with my puke palette. However, it’s always nice when a strip looks pretty like I think this one does. The entire point of this strip is to justify the next one…
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| Mar 27, 13 | 492 – Such Great Heights |
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| Apr 9, 09 | 203 – Shame, Shame |
| Apr 8, 07 | 137 – The Operating Blues |
Something I’m starting to return to that I haven’t really done since Chapter 1 is repeated panels, something I swore off of (for the most part) for Chapter 2. The difference now is that it’s not a crutch. I truly feel that this strip (and the next one, for that matter) was best served by [...]
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| Jan 27, 07 | 87 – The Third Man is Not Pleased |
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| Sep 18, 13 | 536 – Zurida and Her Subjects |
| Oct 16, 08 | 172 – The Superhero Code |
| Feb 1, 07 | 92 – Not the Woman He Used to Know |
Whew. What a mother of a strip this was. For those of your keeping track at home, that’s 21 panels there. This marks Swifty’s return to the story after an absence of about 18 srips. I wanted it to be huge and Swifty playing frustrated is just fun. Originally, the last panel was silent—no joke. [...]
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| Jan 27, 07 | 87 – The Third Man is Not Pleased |
| Nov 14, 06 | 42 – Dr. Rocket Needs a Special Kind of Healing |
| Mar 19, 18 | 772 – Showdown at the New California Coast |
| Jul 9, 09 | 215 – Little Snot |
| Mar 27, 07 | 126 – Who the @#$% is the Third Man? |
The first panel shows a depth of field we haven’t really seen in SF thus far. My goal was to do a drawing that would also work well as a group shot and, possibly, a wallpaper. Plans are in the works for just such a thing. Obviously, this is a huge change of pace for [...]
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| Nov 5, 14 | 634 – Twin Plots |
| Mar 10, 07 | 109 – WHO THREW THIS!? |
| Dec 21, 12 | Guest Strip by Crystal Murphy! |
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| Nov 30, 10 | SF Origins: The Death of Mr. Crook, Pg. 3 “A Man Dies, An Idea is Born” |
Dr. Rocket is always a lot of fun. Perversity is one of the worst evils, I think, because it reduces people to objects. That’s pretty dangerous thinking. Here, the good doctor is showing another side of his evil–the clumsy, bid-for-power type of evil. It’s not a very good plan for world domination, but in the [...]
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| Dec 22, 09 | SF Origins: Harvey the Science Rabbit, Pt. 1, Pg. 4 “His Darlings” |
| Nov 14, 11 | 362 – Robots Don’t Sleep |
| Sep 6, 22 | 921 – Obedience is Key |
| Jul 1, 11 | Pg. 12 “Comic Book Clothing Physics” |
| Aug 16, 22 | 915 – Return to Valhalla |
I don’t know why Mr. Crook is in there. It doesn’t really add anything to the story to have him there. Great Dr. Rocket moment though. I had a lot of fun drawing that tongue and making it as yucky as possible.
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| Mar 12, 07 | 111 – Forgive Dr. Rocket |
| Feb 25, 10 | 245 – One Week Later |
| Jul 29, 08 | 149 – Santa Rocket |
| Oct 7, 06 | 14 – Watchin’ TV |
The obvious signified of a flashback is to do the art in black and white. That gray shading I add in there is an effect I wish I had time to do on all the SuperFogeys strips. Plans are for that effect to be added to the strips for the trade collections. Once that happens, [...]
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| Oct 14, 08 | 171 – Hello, Karma |
| Apr 18, 11 | 308 – Time Displaced/Erased/No Taste |
| Jun 20, 12 | 422 – Whoof! |
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| Oct 24, 11 | 357 – Now Leaving Medieval Midway |
Obviously, something big went down in that other dimension. For the whole story, check out the backup tale “Captain Spectacular and Star Maiden in the Inevitable Dimension” in the second SuperFogeys book. It’s drawn by Julio Molina-Muscara, artist on “Omega Chase.” I wanted a “no bad guy” break-up here. I think you get where everyone [...]
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| Apr 15, 13 | 497 – Michelle |
| Jul 29, 08 | 149 – Santa Rocket |
| Mar 15, 11 | Pg. 7 “Knife to the Throat” |
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| Mar 23, 12 | Pg. 5 “Where Are The Unicef Upstarts?” |
The Pig is the minister! That’s the payoff to the Space Pig’s WebSpace page. Don’t know how many people picked up on that. I had a lot of fun with this page. Designing the Ninja Bridesmaid was particularly fun.
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| Oct 9, 06 | 16 – Spy Gal Wakes Up |
| Jan 18, 07 | 73 – It’s FUN to Share |
| Oct 14, 10 | 280 – Twin Sisters |
| Dec 29, 11 | Guest Strip by Marjorie Rishel! |
| Dec 21, 11 | 373 – SWAT! |
As bad as the art was in the firs few strips of this chapter, I think it got that much better once the Wii stuff came in. Spy Gal’s jumping pose was something I was nervous about doing (I’m not good with the action), but I’m really pleased with how it turned out. All of [...]
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| Dec 19, 12 | 468 – Jerry’s Savior |
| Nov 4, 06 | 32 – Bingo Night Begins |
| Oct 21, 10 | 281 – Expected |
| Jun 10, 13 | 511 – Zurida’s Plan |
| Apr 25, 12 | 406 – Spy Gal’s Wall of Evidence |
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| Dec 19, 16 | 720 – Thank You for Making Me Angry |
| Jan 10, 18 | 753 – What She’d Like to Know |
| Oct 28, 11 | Pg. 5 “Knife in the Mouth” |
| Nov 27, 13 | 552 – Is Jerry Really Such a Bad Guy? |
| Jan 15, 18 | 754 – Not Strong Anymore |
Some readers thought Jerry was out-of-character here. In my mind, Jerry is basically a decent guy, but even decent guys can be pushed too far. If it’s Swifty talking, then you can be sure that Jerry is being pushed too far. I labored and labored over the wording of Dr. Rocket’s apology. It had to [...]
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| May 20, 11 | Pg. 6 “Invisible” |
| Sep 17, 09 | 225 – And the Winner Is… |
| Jan 29, 07 | 89 – WebSpace Page: Dr. Rocket |
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| Jan 30, 17 | 730 – Broken Sam |
I had a TON of fun with this episode. Webcomics can, at times, be a bit of a grind. That schedule, even at just twice a week, can be killer. A visually interesting episode like this where I get to play with depth of field and extreme reactions is just a blast. I had only [...]
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| Sep 16, 15 | 683 – What Makes Peace Worthless |
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| Apr 9, 09 | 203 – Shame, Shame |
| Jan 16, 07 | 71 – Is Gene Crying? |
Eh. I can take or leave this one. I think there’s some neat character animation going on in those first panels, but it’s not drawn very well. This is one of the first strips I wrote for this chapter, and one of the least successful. When I first wrote it, it seemed to encapsulate what [...]
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And now you see the entire impetus for the Wii storyline. I knew I wanted Star Maiden to be so deranged that she actually sees the Fogeys as their younger selves. With that in mind, I thought her interpretation of “air boxing” would be hilarious. Turned out to be more dramatic, but what are you [...]
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| Aug 7, 08 | 152 – Best Man |
| Jun 7, 22 | 895 – Can’t Stop Won’t Stop |
| May 21, 14 | 597 – Him Who? |
| Aug 19, 10 | 273 – All Is Revealed |
| Aug 24, 15 | 673 – Captain Spectacular’s New Duds |
Visually, this is a very exciting strip for me. Even the lame “Kirby Dot” I used for the energy effect on Star Maiden’s blast look pretty decent. This is the strip where I began to realize just how much fun writing Star Maiden was going to be. I mean, here I have a character that [...]
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| Mar 17, 11 | 300 – Stage Four |
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| Mar 25, 20 | 842 – Someone to Hit |
| Oct 22, 06 | 28 – The Tragedy of Jerry |
This is another callback to Spy Gal’s initial appearance in Chapter 1 where the Fogeys discussed her “hotness.” Again, Star Maiden’s reference to bunnies is not so random as it first appears. A quick read of episodes 44 and 45 of Chapter 2 should give enough of a clue to what she might be talking [...]
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| Oct 13, 20 | 846 – Oh, He Dead |
| May 19, 22 | 890 – Loved In Her Own Way |
| Feb 25, 10 | 245 – One Week Later |
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| Aug 30, 22 | 919 – The More Things Change… |
The rare one-paneler! Very rarely do I have an idea for a strip that lends itself to this. The challenge is the layout. Getting all those characters into one frame isn’t easy for me, but well worth it, I think.
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| Sep 14, 12 | Pg. 6 “Who Could Have Done This?” |
| Mar 11, 20 | 838 – The Situation |
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| Aug 13, 18 | Swifty Origin, Pg. 11 “Erased” |
| Oct 21, 11 | Pg. 4 “Zombie Madness” |
Here’s a bit of a storytelling trick…by keeping Dr. Rocket out of the strip for several weeks (off camera–he was in the room the whole time), I make his appearance in the last panel just that much more surprising. That’s the hope anyway. It all seems terribly convenient, I agree. You’re supposed to be thinking [...]
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| Aug 20, 14 | 619 – The Repentant |
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| Jul 15, 11 | Pg. 14 “Why Wouldn’t She?” |
Nothing funny here. Again. I’m pushing the readers’ limits, but all for a (hopefully) good purpose. Some people felt the Captain was out of character here. I disagree, of course, but I think I understand why they might think that. To me, the Captain sees Jerry as his “son.” He would do anything for him, [...]
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How did I go this long without a “When Pigs Fly” joke? That first panel was a challenge for me. In case you haven’t already been able to tell, perspective isn’t my strong suit. Still, I’m pleased with how it turned out. I think it works for what it is. Again, Star Maiden is just [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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With Chapter 4 complete, it’s time to roll out Book #3! This cover was a collaboration between me and the artist known only as Jorzac. He generously provided pencils and then those are my sloppy inks slapped on top. Colors byMADConk. Thanks, Jorzac! Collection #3 of course contains the entirety of Chapter 4, along with a [...]
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