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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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Feb 9, 21 | 872 – Zurida Down |
Jan 6, 20 | 821 – Frightening Frogs |
Feb 2, 07 | 93 – Beginning the Tale of How Captain Spectacular Met and Married Star Maiden |
Aug 13, 14 | 617 – 4 Seconds Earlier |
Sep 28, 11 | Chapter 5, “The Redemption of Dr. Rocket” Recap by Geoff Munn |
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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Mar 17, 07 | 116 – Still Hot |
Jan 25, 17 | 729 – After the Battle |
Apr 22, 11 | Pg. 2 “The Boy Who Lived” |
Nov 20, 13 | 550 – Everything in its Right Place |
Nov 4, 06 | 32 – Bingo Night Begins |
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 9, 08 | 186 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 3 “Going Up” |
Dec 3, 06 | 53 – The Healing |
Jan 20, 07 | 77 – Headed for a Time-Out |
Apr 16, 09 | 204 – Florida Beckons |
Oct 22, 20 | 849 – Break a Hip |
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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May 2, 18 | 783 – FINALLY! |
Aug 3, 15 | 664 – Too Old to Drive |
Aug 28, 19 | 795 – The Duality of All Creatures |
Oct 21, 11 | Pg. 4 “Zombie Madness” |
Feb 8, 12 | 385 – Tiger Dung |
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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Mar 17, 11 | 300 – Stage Four |
Aug 14, 19 | 791 – The Secret Origin of The Atomic Fly! |
Feb 12, 18 | 762 – Jerry vs. Soviet Sam |
Oct 1, 15 | Chapter 21 Teaser! |
Jan 23, 12 | 380 – Mr. Jerry |
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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Nov 19, 06 | 47 – Bingo Knight! |
Jul 11, 08 | Guest Strip by Sean Conchieri of “Pixel!” |
Jan 30, 17 | 730 – Broken Sam |
Mar 5, 12 | 392 – …Secrets, Secrets Hurt Someone |
Aug 12, 19 | 790 – Hey-O! |
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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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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Mar 11, 21 | 881 – Minutes Away |
Dec 9, 06 | 58 – Jerry’s Single Chest Hair |
Apr 17, 13 | 498 – Zurida’s Conditions |
Sep 27, 06 | 6 – Introducing Spy Gal! |
Oct 21, 19 | 805 – Across the Mountaintop |
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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Oct 15, 06 | 22 – Dr. Rocket is Sorry? |
Mar 8, 11 | Pg. 6 “Area is Secure” |
Mar 9, 21 | 880 – Boy, You Sure Got Old! |
Sep 30, 06 | 8 – Hands Off Spy Gal! |
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 16, 08 | 163 – Dr. Klein’s Got Some Splainin’ to Do |
Jun 29, 15 | 649 – Can You Take a Punch? |
Aug 11, 09 | SF Origins: Tangerine, Pg. 3 “New Parts” |
Feb 13, 13 | 480 – A Bevy of Buxom Beach Beauties |
Oct 1, 12 | 445 – I Don’t Know What I’ve Been Told |
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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Nov 5, 09 | 232 – It’s Insane Here |
Feb 11, 21 | 873 – Against the Wall |
Nov 8, 06 | 36 – Valhalla Stinks! |
Oct 12, 11 | 354 – Snap Out of It! |
Aug 10, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal’s Secret Mission, Pg. 4 “Courtesy Call” |
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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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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Mar 8, 11 | Pg. 6 “Area is Secure” |
Apr 21, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 10 “The Lodge of Doom” |
Nov 19, 14 | 638 – The Man Who Sold the World |
Jan 25, 07 | 83 – The Seduction of Dr. Klein |
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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May 16, 11 | 316 – Dr. Rocket’s Space Journey, Pt. 5: The Last Place Anyone Would Think to Look |
Mar 18, 13 | 489 – Change in Plan |
Oct 3, 06 | 11 – The Power Dampener |
May 26, 15 | What You’ve Been Waiting to Know… |
Oct 22, 20 | 849 – Break a Hip |
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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Dec 12, 12 | 466 – Tunnel Vision |
Oct 23, 13 | SuperFogeys Q and A: 4 of 4 |
Aug 12, 10 | 270 – Freakin’ Huge |
Aug 4, 22 | 912 – Jerry Speaks |
Jun 4, 12 | 417 – Guess Who’s Back? |
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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Sep 14, 16 | 699 – How Captain Spectacular Takes Care of Business |
Nov 21, 11 | 364 – Comrade |
Nov 27, 17 | 750 – The Big Slap |
Nov 17, 20 | 856 – Grab That Rabbit! |
Nov 5, 12 | 455 – You’re Not My Father! |
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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Sep 24, 06 | 3 – Escape From the Carpathian Bug People |
Jun 30, 22 | 902 – Devastation |
Aug 11, 14 | Marc Lapierre and The SuperFogeys |
Nov 15, 17 | 747 – The Popped Grape |
Oct 14, 06 | 21 – You Must Respect Women, Dr. Rocket! |
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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Jan 3, 07 | 62 – Conditions of Release |
Feb 25, 10 | 245 – One Week Later |
Nov 10, 06 | 38 – The Good Ol’ Days |
Nov 22, 06 | 49 – The Pen is Shinier Than the Sword |
Apr 15, 11 | Pg. 1 “A Sudden Meeting” |
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 12, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal, Pg.7 “BOOM” |
Nov 27, 13 | 552 – Is Jerry Really Such a Bad Guy? |
Jul 20, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal’s Secret Mission, Pg. 1 “Entry” |
Oct 3, 06 | 11 – The Power Dampener |
Sep 19, 11 | 352 – Megatron is Copyrighted |
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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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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Feb 1, 07 | 92 – Not the Woman He Used to Know |
May 5, 12 | Pg. 11 “Fly Away” |
May 7, 08 | 74 – WebSpace Page: The Healer |
Nov 4, 08 | 176 – An Evil #@$% |
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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Dec 10, 12 | 465 – Lip Lick |
Jan 14, 07 | 69 – Swifty’s Computer Problems |
May 8, 13 | 502 – The Presidio Thumb |
Oct 17, 06 | 24 – Too Little Too Late |
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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May 20, 13 | 505 – Dark Disease |
Nov 20, 06 | 48 – “Old Marm?” |
Feb 26, 18 | 766 – Always |
Jan 6, 20 | 821 – Frightening Frogs |
Sep 3, 18 | Pg. 14 “Fire and Light and Rain” |
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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Dec 21, 12 | Guest Strip by Crystal Murphy! |
May 28, 12 | 415 – Someone REALLY Hates Space Monkeys |
Mar 12, 14 | 579 – The Romantic Smell of Blood and Suffering |
Oct 3, 12 | 446 – General Spy Gal |
Mar 26, 12 | 398 – Rookie Hero Move |
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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Jun 18, 09 | 212 – The O’Hara Brothers |
Dec 21, 10 | SF Origins: The Thrice Evil, Pg. 3 “Out of Mongoloids” |
Feb 11, 13 | 479 – Rescued By Fidel Castro |
Jan 25, 11 | SF Origins: The Thrice Evil, Pg. 9 “We Can Work With That” |
Feb 11, 21 | 873 – Against the Wall |
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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Dec 14, 16 | 719 – It’s Easy When You Know How |
Oct 29, 20 | 851 – Numbers Game |
Aug 11, 22 | 914 – Time to Go |
Oct 30, 13 | 544 – Whose Mess Is It, Anyway? |
Jun 19, 08 | 140 – The Kindness of His Heart |
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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Dec 30, 08 | Guest Strip by Chris Blanchard of “Renaissance Guy!” |
Sep 25, 06 | 4 – Who is Coming to Valhalla? |
Feb 4, 10 | 242 – Comfort Food |
Nov 16, 11 | 363 – Liberated |
Oct 7, 19 | 801 – The Next Best Thing |
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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Aug 7, 13 | 524 – Cracked |
Jul 13, 11 | 333 – A Word with Her Fiancee |
Dec 9, 10 | 288 – Fill Me In |
Oct 22, 14 | 530 – The Long Arm of the Universe |
Jul 21, 22 | 908 – Torture |
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 9, 11 | 314 – Dr. Rocket’s Space Journey, Pt. 3: The One He Truly Hunts |
Oct 10, 12 | 448 – Thinking Like a Hero |
Aug 1, 16 | 686 – Captain Spectacular’s Mighty Punch |
May 20, 13 | 505 – Dark Disease |
Sep 25, 06 | 4 – Who is Coming to Valhalla? |
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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Nov 4, 06 | 32 – Bingo Night Begins |
Oct 17, 18 | HUGE NEWS! SuperFogeys Volume One—Inaction Heroes now on Kickstarter! |
Aug 24, 12 | Pg. 3 “Crybabies” |
Mar 18, 21 | 883 – Through the Mall! |
Jul 13, 10 | SF Origins: The Life and Times of Soviet Sam, Pg. 8 “Sweet Dreams” |
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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Jun 20, 12 | 422 – Whoof! |
Aug 24, 15 | 673 – Captain Spectacular’s New Duds |
Feb 11, 13 | 479 – Rescued By Fidel Castro |
Jun 12, 13 | 512 – The Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened to Swifty |
Jan 15, 14 | 563 – Wreckage |
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 26, 07 | 125 – Jerry’s Down |
Oct 7, 06 | 14 – Watchin’ TV |
Mar 3, 14 | 576 – Torture Chamber 3B |
Aug 6, 14 | 616 – One of Zurida’s |
Jan 21, 10 | 240 – ZAP! |
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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Aug 10, 16 | 689 – Zurida, the Mother |
Dec 16, 11 | Pg. 5 “Full Power, Harvey!” |
Jan 15, 14 | 563 – Wreckage |
Nov 14, 16 | 713 – No More Killin’ |
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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Nov 10, 06 | 38 – The Good Ol’ Days |
Feb 10, 07 | 100 – The Third Man Revealed |
Jan 12, 07 | 67 – Dr. Rocket Draws a Webcomic? |
Nov 2, 11 | The 2nd SuperFogeys Free Comic Book Day Page |
Mar 19, 09 | 200 – Where is He!? |
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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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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Sep 29, 06 | 7 – Turnip Turnip |
Nov 25, 10 | 286 – Duty and Retirement |
Nov 23, 06 | 50 – And the Actual Winner of Bingo Night is… |
Jun 30, 22 | 902 – Devastation |
Nov 5, 06 | 33 – Why Walk When You Can Fly? |
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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May 15, 13 | 504 – A Striking Mustache |
Nov 11, 06 | 39 – Jerry Arrives Late |
Jan 28, 10 | 241 – He’s Gone |
May 11, 11 | 315 – Dr. Rocket’s Space Journey, Pt. 4: The Pilatian Power Crystal |
Nov 6, 06 | 34 – Introducing the Healer! |
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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Aug 30, 22 | 919 – The More Things Change… |
Apr 28, 14 | 590 – Will He Fight? |
Mar 28, 07 | 127 – Entralean Slime Pellet |
Nov 30, 10 | SF Origins: The Death of Mr. Crook, Pg. 3 “A Man Dies, An Idea is Born” |
Aug 24, 12 | Pg. 3 “Crybabies” |
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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Aug 1, 14 | Pg. 5 “Many Doors, All Locked” |
Oct 22, 12 | 451 – Will Tangerine Help? |
Feb 8, 07 | 98 – The Wedding of Captain Spectacular and Star Maiden |
Jul 30, 18 | Pg. 9 “Who is Talking?” |
Aug 11, 14 | Marc Lapierre and The SuperFogeys |
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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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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Apr 1, 11 | Pg. 9 “Always” |
Mar 26, 07 | 125 – Jerry’s Down |
May 27, 13 | 507 – Telling Off Skunk Head |
May 5, 12 | Pg. 11 “Fly Away” |
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Jan 29, 07 | 89 – WebSpace Page: Dr. Rocket |
Dec 21, 11 | 373 – SWAT! |
Aug 10, 12 | Pg. 1 “Baby Hands” |
Apr 16, 09 | 204 – Florida Beckons |
Jul 13, 10 | SF Origins: The Life and Times of Soviet Sam, Pg. 8 “Sweet Dreams” |
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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Aug 9, 22 | 913 – Any Questions? |
Nov 22, 17 | 749 – Caught in the Act |
Apr 15, 11 | Pg. 1 “A Sudden Meeting” |
Dec 8, 09 | SF Origins: Harvey the Science Rabbit, Pt. One, Pg. 1 “Dr. Rocket Wears a Dress” |
Jul 1, 08 | 143 – Ogle |
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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May 9, 18 | 785 – What Spy Gal Wants |
Feb 9, 21 | 872 – Zurida Down |
Sep 25, 08 | 166 – Beer Don’t Judge |
Oct 3, 16 | 703 – Like a Television During a Calliou Marathon |
Apr 17, 13 | 498 – Zurida’s Conditions |
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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Aug 28, 13 | 530 – Jerry’s Greatest Hits |
Sep 18, 08 | 164 – Why “Tangerine?” |
Mar 19, 09 | 200 – Where is He!? |
Mar 31, 07 | 130 – When Pigs Fly |
Jul 19, 22 | 907 – Where is Sam? |
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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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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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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Nov 20, 06 | 48 – “Old Marm?” |
Feb 17, 11 | 296 – Even Her |
Mar 3, 11 | 298 – Vile Villainous Vole |
May 30, 12 | 416 – Alcohol is His Kryptonite |
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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Dec 3, 14 | 642 – A Star Falls |
Sep 25, 08 | 166 – Beer Don’t Judge |
Oct 12, 12 | Pg. 8 “Gross Fetuses” |
Sep 18, 13 | 536 – Zurida and Her Subjects |
Nov 30, 16 | 715 – Master and Student |
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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Nov 8, 06 | 36 – Valhalla Stinks! |
Jul 29, 15 | 662 – Lazy Villainy |
Feb 28, 18 | 767 – Done Pretending |
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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Aug 4, 09 | SF Origins: Tangerine, Pg. 2 “Master Masticate and the Concubine Cannibals” |
Jan 20, 12 | Pg. 2 “Strange Visitor” |
Jan 19, 07 | 76 – Space Pig’s Feelings Get Hurt |
Apr 9, 09 | 203 – Shame, Shame |
Oct 23, 19 | 806 – Space Pigs in the Forest |
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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Oct 6, 06 | 13 – How About a Kiss? |
Jul 10, 15 | 654 – An Honest Conversation |
Jan 17, 07 | 72 – Dictator Tot’s Marching Orders |
Nov 15, 06 | 43 – The Healer Approaches the Captain |
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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Jun 17, 13 | 513 – Devil’s Bargain |
Apr 2, 07 | 132 – Shake! Shake! Shake! |
Aug 27, 18 | Swifty Origin, Pg. 13 “Doom” |
Apr 2, 09 | 202 – He Started Stuttering |
Oct 2, 08 | 168 – Tangerine Gets His Mad On |
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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Dec 18, 08 | 189 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 6 “The Medallion” |
Nov 2, 16 | 710 – Crimson Oils |
Nov 5, 14 | 634 – Twin Plots |
Aug 28, 19 | 795 – The Duality of All Creatures |
Oct 4, 06 | 12 – Introducing Space Pig! |
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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