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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Oct 19, 10 | SF Origins: Spy Gal, Pg. 8 “Back Home” |
Aug 26, 19 | 794 – 3,000 Miles Away |
Jun 21, 22 | 899 – Apocalyptic Lovers |
Apr 20, 12 | Pg. 9 “The Unicef Upstarts” |
Jul 13, 10 | SF Origins: The Life and Times of Soviet Sam, Pg. 8 “Sweet Dreams” |
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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Mar 11, 21 | 881 – Minutes Away |
Oct 13, 20 | 846 – Oh, He Dead |
Jul 29, 11 | Pg.2 “Bio Signature Giveaway” |
Feb 24, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 2 “Swifty” |
Apr 5, 07 | 135 – The Tale of How Captain Spectacular Met Dr. Klein, Conclusion |
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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May 26, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 15 “DUDE!” |
Mar 27, 07 | 126 – Who the @#$% is the Third Man? |
Aug 8, 12 | 434 – Marching Orders |
Sep 1, 22 | 920 – …The More They Stay the Same |
Jan 14, 10 | 239 – How Captain Spectacular Knows The Third Man |
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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May 21, 14 | 597 – Him Who? |
May 3, 09 | 206 – The Valhalla Basement Dungeon |
Jul 2, 18 | Pg. 5 “Promise” |
Jul 21, 22 | 908 – Torture |
Jun 17, 08 | 139 – Jerry’s Fate Revealed |
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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Mar 3, 11 | 298 – Vile Villainous Vole |
Apr 30, 18 | 782 – The Lone Figure in the Doorway |
Jul 16, 09 | 216 – Cami |
Aug 12, 10 | 270 – Freakin’ Huge |
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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Jan 30, 17 | 730 – Broken Sam |
Sep 14, 16 | 699 – How Captain Spectacular Takes Care of Business |
Mar 18, 07 | 117 – Dementia |
Jun 29, 11 | 329 – Ear Twist |
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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Oct 16, 08 | 172 – The Superhero Code |
Jun 14, 22 | 897 – Streaking Past |
Oct 12, 12 | Pg. 8 “Gross Fetuses” |
Nov 23, 06 | 50 – And the Actual Winner of Bingo Night is… |
Mar 3, 14 | 576 – Torture Chamber 3B |
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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Nov 17, 09 | SF Origins: Spy Gal vs. Star Maiden, Pg. 3 “The Last Punch” |
Nov 13, 17 | 746 – The New Maid |
Apr 5, 07 | 135 – The Tale of How Captain Spectacular Met Dr. Klein, Conclusion |
Nov 2, 16 | 710 – Crimson Oils |
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 21, 12 | 413 – The Sunway |
Dec 18, 19 | 820 – Heart-Stopping Great Looks |
Feb 11, 21 | 873 – Against the Wall |
Jan 2, 12 | 374 – A Spy Gal Shaped Hole |
Sep 26, 06 | 5 – The Urine of What!? |
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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Feb 3, 11 | 294 – Funny Ya Should Mention That |
Nov 3, 14 | 633 – A Different Destiny |
Dec 18, 19 | 820 – Heart-Stopping Great Looks |
Oct 7, 10 | 279 – Gina Galloway |
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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Apr 20, 11 | 309 – Time Travelin’ Scamps |
May 21, 14 | 597 – Him Who? |
May 26, 14 | 598 – Do You Moisturize? |
Mar 4, 07 | 107 – Bubbles of Light 1 |
Feb 27, 12 | 390 – Bubbles of Light 7 |
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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Jan 18, 12 | 379 – A True Hero |
Jun 18, 18 | Pg. 3 “The Prophecy” |
Aug 23, 22 | 917 – The New Valhalla |
Nov 24, 20 | 858 – She Brewed Beer Yesterday |
Jul 14, 14 | 609 – Humbled |
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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Jul 29, 11 | Pg.2 “Bio Signature Giveaway” |
Oct 9, 08 | 170 – There Will Be Blood |
Jan 19, 07 | 76 – Space Pig’s Feelings Get Hurt |
Jan 28, 13 | 475 – Too Old For This |
Oct 21, 19 | 805 – Across the Mountaintop |
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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May 12, 14 | 594 – The State of Valhalla |
Jan 14, 10 | 239 – How Captain Spectacular Knows The Third Man |
Jun 4, 18 | Pg. 1 “My Name is Gordon Jones” |
Oct 19, 12 | Pg. 9 “Let’s Go!” |
Nov 23, 11 | 365 – Bloody Roofie |
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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Mar 22, 07 | 121 – Swifty Gets Slapped |
Mar 11, 21 | 881 – Minutes Away |
Jan 4, 10 | Guest Strip by Marc Lapierre of “Spooky Doofus!” |
Feb 24, 09 | SF Origins: The Society of Heroes, Pg. 2 “Swifty” |
Jun 24, 13 | Bubbles of Light 0 |
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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Apr 9, 09 | 203 – Shame, Shame |
Jun 29, 15 | 649 – Can You Take a Punch? |
Apr 11, 12 | 402 – Lost Signal |
Feb 5, 09 | 194 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 11 “Helpful Suggestions” |
Jun 10, 13 | 511 – Zurida’s Plan |
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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Jun 3, 10 | 259 – What Happened to Star Maiden, Pt. 1 “Homesick” |
Sep 4, 08 | 160 – Best Friends Forever? |
Mar 25, 20 | 842 – Someone to Hit |
Apr 5, 07 | 135 – The Tale of How Captain Spectacular Met Dr. Klein, Conclusion |
Jul 27, 15 | 661 – Jerry is the Portalmaker |
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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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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Dec 9, 08 | 186 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 3 “Going Up” |
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Feb 11, 10 | 243 – A Deal is a Deal |
Aug 18, 22 | 916 – Restoration |
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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Dec 18, 19 | 820 – Heart-Stopping Great Looks |
Apr 17, 13 | 498 – Zurida’s Conditions |
Oct 31, 16 | 709 – Gina Galloway to the Rescue |
Sep 18, 13 | 536 – Zurida and Her Subjects |
Mar 12, 14 | 579 – The Romantic Smell of Blood and Suffering |
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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Oct 16, 19 | 804 – Leaving Washington D.Z.(T?) |
Oct 21, 19 | 805 – Across the Mountaintop |
Oct 13, 20 | 846 – Oh, He Dead |
Jun 2, 14 | 600 – Earth-Avalon |
Jun 23, 14 | 603 – General Will and the Society of Heroes |
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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Mar 20, 13 | 490 – Two Thirds of a Secret Revealed |
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Jul 19, 22 | 907 – Where is Sam? |
Jan 7, 10 | Guest Strip by Will Boyer of “The Misadventures of Super Milo!” |
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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Nov 12, 13 | 548 – Of Course He’s Working with the Aliens |
Nov 4, 10 | 283 – Future or Past? |
Mar 17, 07 | 116 – Still Hot |
Dec 25, 09 | Merry Christmas From Swifty (2009) |
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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Jan 18, 12 | 379 – A True Hero |
Oct 16, 06 | 23 – The Incontinent Duo |
Jul 22, 11 | Pg. 1 “Uh Oh” |
Jan 15, 09 | 192 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 9 “Supposed to Be Me” |
Apr 1, 13 | 493 – Dr. Rocket’s Game |
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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Aug 5, 10 | 268 – Sick and Unflattering |
Jan 15, 07 | 70 – Gene and Dictator Tot Reunite |
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Sep 5, 16 | 696 – Account Closed |