REMIND ME TO DO/NOT DO THAT AGAIN… Today’s strip is another example of a time when my reach has exceeded my grasp. As both writer and artist, I have the luxury of scripting things that I know I can draw. But, every once in a while, I bring the story to a point where I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘t-magus’
UPDATE! READER GREG BULMASH BREAKS IT DOWN! I’ve gotta thank Greg for this. He posted it earlier today in the comments and it just made me smile. He puts the point across in a way that I, as the person asking for the donation, would be too ashamed to. So just know that I didn’t [...]
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| Aug 25, 22 | 918 – Not Going in There |
| Mar 26, 07 | 125 – Jerry’s Down |
| Mar 19, 07 | 118 – Spy Gal vs. Star Maiden |
| Jan 25, 12 | 381 – Shut Up |
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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| May 14, 08 | SF Collection #1 Cover |
| Aug 27, 18 | Swifty Origin, Pg. 13 “Doom” |
| Sep 11, 08 | 162 – Just Another Purty Face? |
| Dec 14, 16 | 719 – It’s Easy When You Know How |
NEXT WEEK: On Tuesday, the Spy Gal Origin reaches its big finish! A big deal? Oh yes. Don’t miss it. Then, on Thursday, Gina Galloway sets the Fogeys and their younger counterparts on their way. Way to what, you ask? You’ll see.
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THE 2ND ANNUAL VERY MERRY GUEST STRIPPIN’ CHRISTMAS! Man, what a year, right? Can’t believe it’s the end of year already. As per usual, I’ll be taking a week or two off around Christmas to spend time with my family and recharge my batteries a bit. This has been a heckuva year for SF, with [...]
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| Jan 10, 18 | 753 – What She’d Like to Know |
| Sep 21, 11 | Five Years of The SuperFogeys |
| Jul 21, 22 | 908 – Torture |
| Jan 7, 21 | 865 – Balance |
MARJORIE RESHEL BREAKS IT ALL DOWN IN HILARIOUS FASHION! Only a true blue SuperFogeys fan could have crafted this. This is a knowing, detailed, mythology and character-rich guest strip that had me laughing out loud for quite a while. Marj is a semi-regular commenter in these parts, but she’s clearly ALWAYS paying attention. She’s a [...]
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| Apr 18, 18 | 779 – The Only Failure |
| Oct 3, 12 | 446 – General Spy Gal |
| Mar 10, 07 | 109 – WHO THREW THIS!? |
| Aug 22, 16 | 692 – See! You Are Needed! |
THIS IS A BIG WEEK FOR ME I put the finishing touches on the second draft of me memoir this week. It’s done and ready to be sent off to agents and publishers. That’s a crazy feeling, but sad. I think I enjoy the actual process of writing more than I do having done it. [...]
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| Jun 10, 11 | Pg. 9 “College Years” |
| Sep 29, 06 | 7 – Turnip Turnip |
| Oct 21, 06 | 27 – Spy Gal’s Explanation |
| Sep 7, 16 | 697 – No Fun Being Ignored |
| Apr 9, 07 | 138 – Good News and Bad News |
SUPERFOGEYS 299? BUT THAT MEANS… Yep, SuperFogeys 300 lands next week. You know what that means…milestone! In SuperFogeys 100 we found out that Dr. Klein and the Third Man were one and the same. In SuperFogeys 200 we found out that the Dr. Rocket we thought we knew wasn’t really Dr. Rocket at all. While I don’t [...]
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| Nov 15, 06 | 43 – The Healer Approaches the Captain |
| Feb 3, 11 | 294 – Funny Ya Should Mention That |
| Feb 6, 13 | 478 – What If Money Man Had Lived? |
| Sep 11, 08 | 162 – Just Another Purty Face? |
| Nov 7, 06 | 35 – Healer Q&A |
BEAUTIFUL COLORS For me, this is the first strip of Marc’s where I feel like he’s really coming into his own on SF and making it his own thing. The way he treated Gina in the first panel is just so cool and so right and so different from how I would have done it. [...]
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| Sep 23, 13 | 537 – The Guthrie |
| Aug 10, 16 | 689 – Zurida, the Mother |
| Jan 28, 07 | 88 – Who Smells Like Fish? |
| Nov 15, 17 | 747 – The Popped Grape |
WHAT THE HECK!?!? I don’t know what the deal is with all the blank panels today. I promise you Marc is a better artist than this. We’re gonna have words, believe you me. UPDATE ON BOOK PROGRESS For those of your that don’t know, I’ve been writing a memoir (a personal, true history written more [...]
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| May 20, 08 | SF Collection #4 Cover |
| Mar 5, 18 | 768 – Boy-Haired Crone |
| Aug 16, 22 | 915 – Return to Valhalla |
| Aug 18, 14 | 618 – Thanks to Money Man |
| Jul 13, 15 | 655 – He’s In |
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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| Mar 4, 07 | 107 – Bubbles of Light 1 |
| Oct 17, 11 | 355 – Bubbles of Light 6 |
| Feb 27, 12 | 390 – Bubbles of Light 7 |
| Mar 13, 11 | 299 – Why The Hospital |
| Oct 6, 14 | 627 – Splintered |
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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| Jul 22, 13 | 519 – Three Months Ago |
| May 5, 14 | 592 – Bubbles of Light 9 |
| Nov 5, 14 | 634 – Twin Plots |
| Jan 22, 18 | 756 – Professional Shill |
| Aug 6, 09 | 219 – Bubbles of Light 5 |
This is T-Magus and Gina. Their big intro was in Chapter 10 “Bubbles of Light” where they did some time travel shenanigans and put into motion a lot of stuff that’s still reverberating through the strip even today. Then we saw them again here, just before the One Year Later jump. If you’re finding yourself [...]
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| Mar 9, 21 | 880 – Boy, You Sure Got Old! |
| Jan 1, 09 | Guest Strip by Mark R. Engel of “Prematurely Disappointed!” |
| Jun 16, 22 | 898 – Palace Falls |
| May 15, 08 | SF Collection #2 Cover |
| Mar 10, 14 | 578 – A Different Kind of Torture |
Look! A hand! Next week: Will Gina get Swifty to leave? Will T-Magus discover his presence? Will Swifty get back to his own time? Will Zurida come out of her palace and do the Hustle? Be here next week as only one of these questions get answered in the affirmative!
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| Aug 12, 11 | Pg. 4 “Fear of the Space Pig” |
| Jul 9, 09 | 215 – Little Snot |
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| Oct 19, 11 | 356 – Best Luck of Her Life |
Saw a show last week (24) in which a woman got a couple fingers cut off. It looked like an awful experience. Gina doesn’t explain how “he” did it, but basically how it went down on the show was they put a metal wedge on her finger and then hit with a hammer. Popped the [...]
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| Jul 16, 18 | Pg. 7 “Passion Enough to Change a Heart” |
| Jul 18, 11 | 334 – Whaddaya Wanna Do? |
| Mar 12, 07 | 111 – Forgive Dr. Rocket |
| May 20, 11 | Pg. 6 “Invisible” |
| Jan 21, 07 | 81 – Jerry Denied! |
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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| Apr 5, 07 | 135 – The Tale of How Captain Spectacular Met Dr. Klein, Conclusion |
| Jan 6, 20 | 821 – Frightening Frogs |
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| May 20, 08 | SF Collection #4 Cover |
| Jul 8, 08 | Guest Strip by Brian Anderson of “Dog Eat Doug!” |
Sometimes, I ask Marc to accomplish the tricky task of communicating a character’s entire state of mind or silent conversation purely through a facial expression. I think in order to write effective character dramas within the comics medium, you’ve GOT to be able to handle facial expressions well. It’s why Marc is such an effective [...]
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| Nov 6, 06 | 34 – Introducing the Healer! |
| Oct 20, 06 | 26 – How Jerry Met Spy Gal |
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| Mar 31, 07 | 130 – When Pigs Fly |
| Feb 8, 07 | 98 – The Wedding of Captain Spectacular and Star Maiden |
Today’s strip kind of unlocks a big piece of the puzzle and I’m looking forward to seeing what you guys make of it. I know some of you have objections to the way these flashbacks are playing out, and that’s okay. Chapter’s not over yet. A flashback heavy strip like today deserves a few annotations. [...]
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| Feb 15, 12 | 387 – A Hot Shower |
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Double sized strip! Double-sized strip! These are a rare treat, but always welcome. Love it when Marc does this. CAMI I was a little late posting comments to Monday’s strip so those of you who saw it when it first went up probably didn’t see my note about Cami. Here it is if you did [...]
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| Nov 16, 06 | 44 – Beginning the Tale of How Captain Spectacular was Paralyzed |
| May 22, 13 | 506 – Disappearing Act |
| Nov 18, 10 | 285 – Medical Centre |
| Feb 13, 13 | 480 – A Bevy of Buxom Beach Beauties |
| Oct 20, 06 | 26 – How Jerry Met Spy Gal |
Happy Halloween! Right at this moment it’s 1am on an early, early Monday morning and I am freezing my butt off while we shoot, of all things, a treehouse scene about 30 yards away from me. Filmmaking keeps things interesting. Thankfully, my role as DIT (the guy who gets the footage backed up and into [...]
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| Nov 11, 10 | 284 – Pairing Off |
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Oh, Gorgeous Guy. Once you were Captain Spectacular II… how very, very far you have fallen. IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY! I celebrated my birthday this past Saturday, the one year anniversary of the Trump Administration (yay?). I highly recommend birthdays in my house. We treat the celebrated like kings around her. Homemade cake from scratch, [...]
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| Oct 4, 17 | 735 – The MSNBC-FOX News Coalition |
| Jul 21, 14 | 611 – Escape |
| Nov 13, 17 | 746 – The New Maid |
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| Apr 2, 12 | 400 – Dark Maiden |
Thrice Evil might be a little behind the curve on this one. Just sayin’. See you all on Wednesday with what I think is one of the coolest strips Marc has illustrated yet!
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| Dec 3, 20 | 859 – Snakes on a Swifty |
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| Aug 31, 15 | 676 – Jerry, Meet Thrice Evil |
That…that Avalon Thrice Evil statue is a thing of beauty. I might weep. It occurs to me that we haven’t seen a lot of Cap and Swifty interacting in this series. These two have a long history, and Swifty isn’t really the kind of guy to let Cap forget who he used to be, despite [...]
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| Feb 12, 09 | 195 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 12 “The Conclusion” |
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| Aug 7, 08 | 152 – Best Man |
Happy New Year, everybody! It’s good to be back. I think it’s fair to say both Marc and I hate taking hiatuses, but they are necessary to keep this going and keep the quality where it needs to be. How has everybody been? Christmas treat you well? Didn’t run into any Avalonian frogs, did you? [...]
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I always love it when Marc finds the opportunity to go wide. Originally, there were four panels for this strip, but he saw how easily the first three could be combined into one, and of course it works so much better. Get your copy of SuperFogeys Vol. 1 right now at a discounted price before [...]
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| Dec 16, 11 | Pg. 5 “Full Power, Harvey!” |
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| Jan 19, 07 | 76 – Space Pig’s Feelings Get Hurt |
If you listened to my recent interview over at the Comics For All! podcast (SUCH a great interview) then you know all about my undying love for Atomic Fly. He and Soviet Sam are the two characters I wish had been there from Chapter 1 that just aren’t. SUPERFOGEYS VOL. 1 SELLS OUT AND ENTERS [...]
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| Feb 16, 21 | 874 – The One True |
| Feb 21, 18 | 765 – The Spark Between Them |
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| Jul 22, 11 | Pg. 1 “Uh Oh” |
Annnnnnd we’re back again! But this time, it’s for the long haul. We’ve got a decent buffer going and I suspect we should be able to get to the end of a year without any breaks. Fingers crossed! When you look at the work Marc is doing and how he just keeps upping his game, [...]
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