Wait… wait… does that mean Harvey is a… ? Big thanks to artist Chip Skelton for making this page sing. I just love, love, love the pacing and that killer final panel. Nice work, my friend.
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Artist Chip Skelton’s layouts blow me away with each new page. He’s a true designer. He doesn’t think solely in terms of panels, the thinks in pages. Trust me, that’s a lot more work. And when it looks as good as this, it’s worth it.
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Maybe my favorite moment in this story. Seriously, imagine it. A zombie rabbit with a knife in its mouth is leaping towards you and wants to eat your face. You would absolutely. FREAK. OUT.
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Dec 23, 08 | 190 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 7 “Test Subjects” |
Big thanks to artist Chip Skelton for showing us all how it’s done! Sadly, Chip claims (CLAIMS!) this is possibly his last comic page… ever. Like me, he’s much more interested in writing and will be focusing his energies in that direction. Best of luck, Chip. That can be a rewarding–and frustrating–experience. BUT, this isn’t [...]
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Feb 1, 12 | 383 – Jackpot. |
Nov 17, 20 | 856 – Grab That Rabbit! |
Mar 19, 18 | 772 – Showdown at the New California Coast |
This is a good example of how profitable collaboration can be. As scripted, this was going to be one shot of Spy Gal emerging from the casino to see the panorama above. One panel. Marc came back at me with a sketch showing Spy Gal removing bobby pins from her hair and then an inset [...]
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Feb 29, 12 | 391 – Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun… |
Jul 15, 11 | Pg. 14 “Why Wouldn’t She?” |
Feb 19, 14 | 573 – Jerry Picks a Flower |
Aug 21, 15 | 672 – To The USZ! |
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May 8, 13 | 502 – The Presidio Thumb |
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Nov 19, 14 | 638 – The Man Who Sold the World |
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Mar 19, 09 | 200 – Where is He!? |
The image of Eisenhower drinking S.P.U. to the strains of Rock-a-bye Baby will forever haunt me. Big thanks to artist Lucas Turnbloom!
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The penultimate page of “The Audition!” Big thanks to artist Lucas Turnbloom! Next week: Guest Strippin’ Xmas! See you then!
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Guest Strippin’ Xmas concludes with Marjorie Rishel of Draconis Wicked! Marjorie always does a great job picking some piece of SuperFogeys history and riffing on it and this is no exception. Thanks, Marjorie! Marc and I are back on Monday, Jan. 2. See you in the New Year!
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Dec 15, 09 | SF Origins: Harvey the Science Rabbit, Pt. 1, Pg. 2 “But You Will Be” |
By Marc’s own admission, this was the most complicated and detailed SF strip he’s had to do yet. There are actually three layers of art there, and Marc drew them all separately to pull it off. Kudos, Marc. Storywise, the winds of change are in the air. If you need a little help as to [...]
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May 2, 18 | 783 – FINALLY! |
Here’s a fan art drawn around the time of Chapter One. I don’t think I’d even revealed what Spy Gal’s feet looked like yet! Check out more of Winston Rowntree’s amazing work on his surreal and epic webcomic, Subnormality!
Holy snot, I never would have guessed Marc would outdo his art in the previous strip so soon. This sucker rocks! Been lots of fantastic comments from you guys lately. You psychoanalyze these characters in a way few other readerships do. You make this worth doing. I see lots more conversation on the horizon as [...]
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Soviet Sam makes me happy. He’s a character I’ve barely drawn myself, but I love how easily he fits into the main story and how much his presence adds to the proceedings. Nice seeing a bunch of the characters in the same strip again. Marc always handles these crowd scenes so well. Don’t forget to [...]
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I love happy endings, don’t you? Wanna read this chapter from the start? Begin here. Tomorrow, Marc and I will be recording a podcast with the great Tom Racine of Tall Tale Radio. We’ll be discussing this chapter, what comes next for The SuperFogeys and more. Tom will be watching today’s comments closely and will [...]
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FAN ART: 8-Bit SuperFogeys by Kelsi Swensen!
by Brock Heasley on February 8th, 2012How freakin’ cool is this? Big thanks to SuperFan Kelsi Swensen for making my inbox very, very happy over the weekend. Now I want to play the video game!
FAN ART: The Fogeys and Dictator Tot by Kristie Metler
by Brock Heasley on February 21st, 2012SuperFan Kristie Metler send me this fun little piece just a bit ago. Once in a while, she draws pictures of characters for her kids and her choice on this particular day was the Fogeys! I love it. There’s something really pure about drawing strictly for your kids. Thanks, Kristie! Would you like to do [...]
You know what’s the worst thing you can do to someone? Anyone? Just go up to them and say “I know what you did.” Doesn’t matter if you really know or not, we’ve all got things were ashamed of or trying to hide. Things we’d rather people didn’t know about us. Sometimes, I think about [...]
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Nov 14, 16 | 713 – No More Killin’ |
Talking heads, talking heads! SF features this kind of strip so rarely anymore that I know it’s a welcome relief for Marc when he gets one. Plus, I get to return to my first love: dialogue. Do you know what you’re missing at brockheasley.com? Come on over now and find out or I’ll kill your [...]
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What happens when two villains have each other over a barrel? Find out next week! Note: Apologies for the black and white strip! We are experiencing technical difficulties. Full color strip will be up as soon as possible, rest assured. We don’t like being naked anymore than you like seeing us like this. Want more [...]
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Sep 8, 22 | 922 – The New Normal |
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It has been a looooong time since we’ve seen the balding guy in the last panel. Need a refresher on Tom? Start with his intro right here and keep reading until you get here! Last week, I put my wedding ring back on for the first time in six years. Wanna know why it was [...]
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Feb 23, 21 | 876 – Never Be Careful |
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Jan 18, 07 | 73 – It’s FUN to Share |
Oct 10, 06 | 17 – Spy Gal Doesn’t Need Jerry |
Oct 17, 06 | 24 – Too Little Too Late |
I’d alway meant to check back in with Tom before now, but I could never really find a good reason for doing so within the main strip. Readers with long memories will remember that it was Tom to whom Jerry told his origin story. You see that and Tom’s reaction to Jerry’s origin, starting here. [...]
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Apr 2, 07 | 132 – Shake! Shake! Shake! |
Meat of the story starts now and it occurs to me how this story has suddenly synced up with the current storyline, where Dr. Rocket is similarly imprisoned. Poor guy. At least he’s got cookies! Big thanks to artist Chip Skelton and colorist MAD Conk for the amazing work they did on this story.
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Man, Tom really knows how to play it to the Rocket family, doesn’t he? What would you say to your 20-year-old self? I took some time to figure it out and came up with 11 pieces of advice that dude would probably never take. Click here to give it a read. Includes pics of me [...]
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I try to be more economical with my dialogue these days, but I admit that sometimes I miss the old days when I thought pictures were just the vessels that carried my words. Big thanks to artist Chip Skelton for letting me me run rampant! Dictator Tot has grown up quite a bit. Now, she [...]
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FAN ART: Spy Gal and Dr. Rocket by Winston Rowntree
by Brock Heasley on March 28th, 2012This one takes me way back. Winston Rowntree is one of the most amazing, underknown webcomickers out there. You would do well to check out his always thought-provoking webcomic, Subnormality (warning: language). Thanks again, Winston!
Big thanks to artist Chip Skelton for the stellar job here. I love all this interplay and it’s so hard to do extended pieces like this in strip form. Great fun. Do you like sports? I don’t. Much. Come complain me and learn how soccer is really a threat to manhood over at my new [...]
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Apr 28, 14 | 590 – Will He Fight? |
Oct 31, 11 | 359 – Warmed Up |
Once again, a hearty thanks to artist Chip Skelton for his amazing work. It’s not easy to draw a page of talking heads and make it look dynamic, but Chip does it over several pages like it’s no big deal. On Wednesday, the SuperFogeys 2012 Teaser was accidentally posted late in the day. Did you [...]
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Mar 26, 09 | 201 – The Orphan BBQ Will Have to Wait |
Sep 3, 18 | Pg. 14 “Fire and Light and Rain” |
Oct 23, 19 | 806 – Space Pigs in the Forest |
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Dec 9, 19 | 817 – Master Masticate Stands with Fork Ready |
Behold… The Thrice Evil in all his glory! I think this is the first time you online readers have seen Thrice at his prime. Quite the sight, eh? Big thanks to artist Chip Skelton and colorist MAD Conk for rendering him so beautifully. Sorry for the late post today! Internet outage left me unable to [...]
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Apr 3, 13 | 494 – Hugging in the Throne Room |
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Jan 1, 14 | Guest Strip by Crystal Murphy, 4! |
Sep 28, 16 | 702 – He’s Got Gloves |
Nov 18, 10 | 285 – Medical Centre |
It pains me that I’ve never used these kids since writing this story years ago. It’s just such a fun idea and artist Chip Skelton did such a great job designing them. A superhero kid team made up of Unicef Collecting kids with halloween costumes and powers to match–why didn’t anyone ever think of it [...]
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Aug 11, 14 | Marc Lapierre and The SuperFogeys |
I want my own Sunway. Warning: does not work at night or during an eclipse. Otherwise, it’s awesome! I confess that I took the inspiration for The Sunway from Ed Wood’s “classic” film Plan 9 From Outer Space. We need to be careful how we tap into the power of sunlight. If we could do [...]
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Mar 4, 13 | 485 – To The Stars |
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That last panel closeup of Dr. Rocket is just so haunting. Well played, Marc. Well played. Lots to chew on with this strip. Have at it. In other news… I just posted a new blog on my blogging site entitled “Sex vs. Violence.” I’m sure I’m asking for it with this one, but feel free [...]
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Aug 8, 16 | 688 – Zurida, The Peacemaker |
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This page is a story that was hinted at a loooooong time ago. Now that you’ve finally seen, what do you think? Big thanks to artist Marjorie Rishel for the epic rendering of a tough scene. Sometimes, things get in your head and you’ve got to get them out. This week, it was an allegory [...]
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Welcome back to SuperFogeys Origins and SuperFogeys Babies. Today’s page reveals the villain behind the Society of Heroes turning into babies, but if you want a refresher on the story so far, go on back to page one. It’s good stuff. Promise. Big thanks to artist Denver Brubaker and colorist Jeff Couturier. Do yourself a [...]
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The second panel makes this page for me. The dialogue is pretty consistent with what I originally scripted, but artist Denver Brubaker and colorist Jeff Couturier took it to another level by actually visualizing what Dr. Rocket is describing. I laughed out loud when I saw it. Nice work, guys! That last panel is a [...]
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Jul 23, 14 | 612 – A Tale of Two Swifties. |
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Jan 1, 14 | Guest Strip by Crystal Murphy, 4! |
This is it! The penultimate page of SuperFogeys Babies! Next week… the conclusion. However… there’s no way artist Denver Brubaker and colorist Jeff Couturier are going to top this page. When I saw the art for this, my jaw dropped. Hope you guys dig it half as much. Speaking of Denver, once SuperFogeys Babies wraps [...]
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May 12, 14 | 594 – The State of Valhalla |
Longtime readers know how BIG this is! Dr. Rocket is free once again, but Tom has been locked up for far, far longer. I mean, he was first put there waaaaay back at the end of Chapter 7! I’ve been looking forward to this particular strip for a long, long time. Now, Tom is out. He [...]
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Mar 12, 18 | 770 – Bumps in the Road |
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Big update to the SuperFogeys Sourcebook and Adventure Game Kickstarter over the weekend–now I can show you the first miniatures. Check it out, Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket: How great are those sculpts! Big kudos to sculptor Gene Van Horne for capturing ALL the detail of what up until now was just drawings on a [...]
We’re in the home stretch! The Kickstarter has just one week left to go. Can we hit the $4500 goal? Can we go higher? It’s up to you guys, but I just wanna say already how grateful I am for how you’ve come out and shown your support for this project and for The SuperFogeys. [...]
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Castro! The last time we saw our friendly neighborhood dictator was a long, long time ago. His appearance proved so popular he even inspired a T-shirt! (Did you get one? If you have a photo of you in it, I’d love to post it.) I think there’s a whole ‘nother story to be told about [...]
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The alien invaders have desired Dr. Rocket for quite a while that they might make him answer for his crimes. As far as the SF Universe is concerned, there’s no one who has done more damage or more wrong than Dr. Rocket. He is an out and out villain. Never pretends to be otherwise. And [...]
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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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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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Jan 15, 14 | 563 – Wreckage |
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Oct 15, 20 | 847 – Macho Verve and Vigor |
Mar 10, 14 | 578 – A Different Kind of Torture |
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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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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Sep 18, 16 | 700 – Happy Tenth Anniversary, SuperFogeys |
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Jul 9, 14 | 608 – Gumdrops and Rainbows |
Last Wednesday’s strip generated some great discussion about what Dr. Rocket and Zurida are up to. Today’s strip should provide those answers handily. Those of you with good memories should recall that Zurida saw Jerry quite clearly when she “visited” Valhalla in the previous chapter. Zurida’s invitation to Dr. Rocket to enter her palace kicks [...]
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Jun 14, 22 | 897 – Streaking Past |
Nov 25, 10 | 286 – Duty and Retirement |
Mar 13, 13 | 488 – A Pale Queen Commands Them |
I’m starting to find some unique joys in having a long-running webcomic. One of them is scenes like this. There’s a huge gap between how Cap and Doc related to each other at the beginning of the strip and how they are now. I believe firmly in change. People don’t stay one way through their [...]
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Jun 19, 08 | 140 – The Kindness of His Heart |
Sep 23, 06 | 2 – Introducing Jerry! |
I derive an unexpected amount of satisfaction from this interaction between Dr. Rocket and Captain Spectacular. Even more than the hug last week, I just love that they’re so simpatico here. Maybe this is born of my secret desire for Superman and Lex Luthor to knock back a couple of root beers and work their [...]
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Oct 15, 20 | 847 – Macho Verve and Vigor |
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Jun 3, 11 | Pg. 8 “Future Imperfect” |
I know I can be a wordy sonuvagun (though I’d like to think I’ve gotten better with time and experience), but I really do love strips like this that are more about economy of storytelling than how many words I can stick in a panel. Marc nailed the emotion in a big way, putting the [...]
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Mar 13, 13 | 488 – A Pale Queen Commands Them |
Dec 3, 14 | 642 – A Star Falls |
I can always count on Tom Racine to bring the funny. I’ve known Tom for years both online and in real life and I can tell you he’s one of the good ones. Through his podcast Tall Tale Radio, Tom has been a big promoter of cartooning and webcomicking and is doing the community a [...]
Welcome back, everyone! Last week’s break was, I’m sure, completely unwelcome, but we both appreciate your patience and understanding. Your response to SF 500 was overwhelming and so, so positive. 107 comments and counting. For a webcomic with a modest readership like ours, that’s a big friggin’ deal. That makes today’s update sort of long-awaited. [...]
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Aug 24, 12 | Pg. 3 “Crybabies” |
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Dec 22, 09 | SF Origins: Harvey the Science Rabbit, Pt. 1, Pg. 4 “His Darlings” |
This strip is a Marc Lapierre special. I’ve learned that with action scenes the less scripting I do the better. Marc has references to pull from that I can’t touch and a much better visual mind for the choreography and how it should play out across panels than I do. Even in the last panel, [...]
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I don’t think you get to strike the pose Money Man is OWNING in the first panel and not be considered a total bad@$$. Like, he’s not even gonna give you his front. Naw, you gotta look at him from the side if you wanna admire him after he takes out the bad guy (or [...]
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I’m gonna be honest with you guys–I did not plan on introducing this story thread in this chapter. I mean, there’s an alien invasion going on. How many more threats do the Fogeys need to deal with? This isn’t the same as saying this is an unplanned story. What Money Man is talking about is [...]
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Oct 14, 06 | 21 – You Must Respect Women, Dr. Rocket! |
Those of you who follow Marc on Twitter or Facebook know that he likes to try out lots of different art styles. We’d been looking for an excuse for him to incorporate one of those art styles into the strip and today’s seemed like a natural fit. I think it came off beautifully. For you [...]
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535 – A Superhero, His Sons, His Ex and His Evil Best Friend are Locked Up in a Palace…
by Brock Heasley on September 16th, 2013Feels like forever since we’ve check in on Cap and company. When last we left them, they had a heckuva surprise visitor who had some ominous news before taking off. Now, they’re locked up in Zurida’s Palace–somewhat by choice, somewhat not. Cap made a devil’s bargain to get Michelle back… so now what? I really [...]
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When last we saw Zurida she was making one heckuva deal with Jerry. What is still unexplained is what, exactly, she wants to do with the power crystal now that she has it. That’s next week. See you then. Sometimes, strips like this are frustrating because they essentially serve as transitions to to the stuff [...]
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UPDATE! Marc posted this shot of the inks for this strip on his Instagram and I just had to share it with you guys: Sometimes, Marc just goes all out. I know for a fact this monster of a strip consumed his life for the past few days. Well worth it, Marc. Well worth it. [...]
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Marc did a great little character design with Sokol, who is appearing for the first time with this chapter. I believe Marc’s getting a blog up soon about the thought that went into the look of Sokol. There’s some really nice little touches in there that might not be real obvious at first. Next week [...]
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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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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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