Posts Tagged ‘tangerine’
Commentary I am nothing if not patient. I created Tangerine quite a while ago. In fact, his actual first appearance is on the cover of the first SuperFogeys book and in the bonus story of that same book as drawn by Mike Hartigan. Each of the SuperFogeys are pretty much analogues for characters in either the [...]
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Sep 25, 08 | 166 – Beer Don’t Judge |
Aug 14, 08 | 154 – Tangerine’s Surprise |
Apr 23, 14 | 589 – The Lie of Never |
Nov 14, 12 | 458 – Quite An Entrance |
May 14, 12 | 411 – A Terrible Downward Dog |
Commentary This is one of those rare strips that I think is pretty good, both visually and from a story standpoint, but that has a pretty weak punchline. There’s just something so obvious about that last panel. What I do like a lot is the unconventional paneling. I don’t remember exactly how I hit on the [...]
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Aug 31, 12 | Pg. 4 “Crib Cage” |
Aug 22, 12 | 438 – Don’t Insult the ‘Do |
Sep 11, 08 | 162 – Just Another Purty Face? |
Aug 24, 12 | Pg. 3 “Crybabies” |
May 14, 08 | SF Collection #1 Cover |
COMMENTARY In the first panel there, you’ll notice a sign on the box that’s cut off. The full sign would read “Ark of the Covenant – Do Not Touch,” an obvious shout-out to Indiana Jones. The monster is another shout-out. This is my lame attempt at a tribute to the master of drawing monsters—Jack Kirby. [...]
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Aug 8, 16 | 688 – Zurida, The Peacemaker |
Nov 7, 16 | 711- Fallen Son |
Aug 24, 12 | Pg. 3 “Crybabies” |
Jul 22, 10 | 266 – The Greatest Book Ever Written |
Jan 15, 14 | 563 – Wreckage |
COMMENTARY Look at the detail in that darkened warehouse! I kid. If you look closely at the third panel you’ll see that Dictator Tot has tossed aside a small device. I didn’t have room to explicitly state it, but the idea is that she was using that device to make it appear as though she [...]
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Sep 15, 14 | The Principle of Order |
Oct 11, 17 | 737 – Dastard Number Two |
Sep 18, 16 | 700 – Happy Tenth Anniversary, SuperFogeys |
Aug 26, 10 | SF Origins: Operation: Valhalla, No. 3 “Tangerine’s Tendencies” |
Sep 18, 08 | 164 – Why “Tangerine?” |
COMMENTARY Based on this strip, for some reason, a lot of people assumed that Captain Spectacular II is the son of Captain Spectacular. Such is not the case. I love, love, love the look of this one. I wish I got to play with colors like the more often, or, at least, that I was [...]
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Sep 10, 12 | 443 – “Open to Ideas” |
Jan 9, 17 | 724 – Requiem for Tangerine |
May 11, 12 | Pg. 1 “Now This is a Story…” |
Aug 17, 16 | 691 – That’s Enough |
Oct 28, 08 | 175 – My Pleasure |
COMMENTARY The angry looks that the Space Pig and Tangerine are giving each are meant to suggest a fallout between them after the events of “The Secret Origin of the Space Pig” (which you can find in SuperFogreys Vol.1, on sale in the SF Store). Tangerine finally arriving at Valhalla was a long time in [...]
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COMMENTARY Tangerine’s body design presents some unique challenges. He doesn’t really have elbows (the way I draw him anyway) and he’s so much shorter than everybody else that whenever he appears it requires some rethinking of how I usually frame the characters in the panel. I thought long and hard about the use of the [...]
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Aug 14, 08 | 154 – Tangerine’s Surprise |
Dec 12, 11 | 370 – Ugly Little Man |
Jul 17, 08 | 146 – Cad and a Layabout |
Apr 22, 13 | 499 – Statuesque |
Mar 26, 14 | 583 – The Captain is Not as Alone as He Thinks |
COMMENTARY One of the more awkwardly organized strips I’ve done, design-wise. The balloons in the second panel just would not fit in a natural way. In comics, you generally want the person speaking first on the left side of the panel and the next person to the right of them and so on. Usually, I [...]
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Aug 20, 14 | 619 – The Repentant |
Apr 29, 11 | Pg. 3 “Lucky” |
Aug 3, 15 | 664 – Too Old to Drive |
Aug 24, 11 | 345 – Taking a Pill |
COMMENTARY When I created Tangerine about two years prior to the strips on this page being drawn, this strip and the one above were in my original notes. Tangerine’s entire personality was then extrapolated from these two conversations with Jerry. The Pink Shade is a character that gets referenced now and again, but her actual [...]
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Mar 20, 07 | 119 – #@$% Heroic |
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Sep 28, 11 | Chapter 5, “The Redemption of Dr. Rocket” Recap by Geoff Munn |
Aug 19, 10 | 273 – All Is Revealed |
May 11, 12 | Pg. 1 “Now This is a Story…” |
COMMENTARY Arachno is supposed to be an analogue to Spider-Man. He’s probably too dead-on in name to every make an actual appearance, but he provides a good shorthand here to illustrate just how unusual the public turning against him was to the Captain. SUPERFOGEYS 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY This week marks the 2-year anniversary of both the [...]
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Jan 23, 17 | 728 – Oh, Brucie… |
Aug 3, 15 | 664 – Too Old to Drive |
Nov 27, 08 | 183 – Eloquence |
Oct 1, 06 | 9 – How to Turn Dr. Rocket On |
Oct 21, 06 | 27 – Spy Gal’s Explanation |
COMMENTARY This is maybe one of the most economical and tragic things I’ve ever written. Really, the intent was to begin really breaking down Tangerine’s character, but Captain Spectacular got swept up in that tide as well as we see his fatal character flaw—when things are going well, the Captain does just fine. When things [...]
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Aug 20, 09 | 221 – And By Books Do You Mean Skin Rags? |
Mar 18, 10 | 248 – The Difference Between Justice and Revenge |
Jul 15, 08 | 145 – Wrinkly Butt |
Jul 2, 09 | 214 – Father and Sons |
May 27, 11 | Pg. 7 “In the Future” |
COMMENTARY I had to do a bit of a storytelling shuffle to keep Tangerine away from Dr. Rocket until this point in the story. I love his entrance here. In particular, I loved doing the growling drawing of Tangerine. The red color isn’t meant to suggest that Tangerine can actually turn red—it’s just an artistic [...]
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Nov 4, 08 | 176 – An Evil #@$% |
Oct 20, 06 | 26 – How Jerry Met Spy Gal |
Nov 6, 13 | 546 – Tangerine Makes a Decision |
Apr 16, 18 | 778 – Sam’s Guilt |
Aug 8, 11 | 340 – What Lovely Teeth You Have |
COMMENTARY One of my all-time favorite strips. Visually, I think this just works. I think I had just rewatched the movie Quiz Show shortly before writing this strip, so I had Geritol on the brain. Great movie. SUPERFOGEYS FALLING BEHIND IN WEBCOMIC READER’S CHOICE AWARDS The SuperFogeys need your help! Those of you that have [...]
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Mar 31, 12 | Pg. 6 “Find the Sharp Metal Instrument” |
Jul 10, 08 | Guest Strip by Lucas Turnbloom of “Imagine This!” |
COMMENTARY In the first two panels we see that Swifty did indeed use the Space Pig Urine given to him by Dr. Rocket earlier in the chapter. I wish I had chosen a different wall color for the background of this strip (and all those remaining in Chapter 5 for that matter). That brown is [...]
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Jun 3, 10 | 259 – What Happened to Star Maiden, Pt. 1 “Homesick” |
Sep 30, 06 | 8 – Hands Off Spy Gal! |
Jul 19, 22 | 907 – Where is Sam? |
Nov 22, 06 | 49 – The Pen is Shinier Than the Sword |
Sep 11, 08 | 162 – Just Another Purty Face? |
COMMENTARY There wasn’t room in the flashback of this chapter to make it explicit that Dr. Rocket was responsible for the public turning against the Captain in the 70’s, so it was nice of Tangerine to make that point for us here. Unfortunately, this strip and the next few are far too wordy. I had [...]
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Jan 19, 10 | SF Origins: The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular, Pg. 2 “Homewreckers” |
Dec 18, 08 | 189 – The Origin of Captain Spectacular and Dr. Rocket, Pt. 6 “The Medallion” |
Sep 14, 15 | 682 – Milk and Cookies |
Aug 10, 12 | Pg. 1 “Baby Hands” |
Sep 15, 14 | The Principle of Order |
COMMENTARY This strip angered a lot of people. No one—and I mean NO ONE—felt that Captain Spectacular would just stand by and watch Spy Gal get knocked out like that. Honestly, I couldn’t understand that reaction based on what we’d just seen in his flashback. Not only is the Captain flawed, but Tangerine is his [...]
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Jul 30, 18 | Pg. 9 “Who is Talking?” |
Oct 17, 12 | 450 – Neither One of Them Expected It |
Jun 4, 18 | Pg. 1 “My Name is Gordon Jones” |
Jul 4, 11 | 330 – Swim City |
Aug 25, 22 | 918 – Not Going in There |
COMMENTARY I want to do an entire comic book of Star Maiden just walking around Valhalla and interacting with everyone. She’s so, so much fun to write and draw. Some of my most favorite lines from her ever are in this strip. I wanted to cut down the dialogue for the print edition, but I [...]
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Dec 16, 10 | 289 – Not Yet |
Sep 15, 14 | The Principle of Order |
Sep 5, 16 | 696 – Account Closed |
Mar 5, 18 | 768 – Boy-Haired Crone |
Apr 10, 13 | 496 – The First Condition |
COMMENTARY Here’s another idea that’s too big for the strip format. I’m just really pushing the boundaries of what a strip can do. Thankfully, I don’t have anything like a syndicate to answer to, so I can do this, get this idea out of the way, and regret not expanding it two strips later. Still, [...]
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Oct 29, 12 | 453 – Buried Weapons |
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Jan 29, 07 | 89 – WebSpace Page: Dr. Rocket |
Sep 26, 06 | 5 – The Urine of What!? |
Sep 20, 16 | 10th Anniversary BONUS STRIP 1! |
COMMENTARY No single strip that I have done (at the time of this writing I’m about 10 strips into Chapter 7) has caused as much controversy as this one. The comments exploded when this strip hit. I think maybe 1% of the audience saw this coming. And, even if they did, no one thought it [...]
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Oct 2, 08 | 168 – Tangerine Gets His Mad On |
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY APPEARANCE I’m kind of freaking out right now. You all know about Free Comic Book Day, right? Go to a comic book shop on May 2nd, get some free comics, etc. Pretty sweet. Well, if you live in the Fresno, CA area I hope you’ll join me over at Heroes Comics at Shaw [...]
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May 17, 08 | SF Collection #3 Cover |
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Mar 20, 07 | 119 – #@$% Heroic |
THE CALL AND RESPONSE OF SERIALIZED STORYTELLING There a serious disadvantage and a serious advantage of doing serialized storytelling. Oddly enough, they are the exact same thing: reader commentary. The way I do the SuperFogeys is that, before each chapter, I create an outline that tells me strip-by-strip what I need to accomplish. The actual [...]
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Jan 19, 10 | SF Origins: The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular, Pg. 2 “Homewreckers” |
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Feb 26, 09 | 197 – Requiem |
THE NEWSARAMA INTERVIEW! I teased this weeks ago, but now it’s finally here! On the web, there is no bigger site for comic book news than Newsarama. Their coverage is about 75% DC and Marvel, with the other 25% mostly reserved for the big independent publishers like Image, Dark Horse and IDW. Only very rarely [...]
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Sep 20, 16 | 10th Anniversary BONUS STRIP 1! |
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May 6, 13 | 501 – New Age Nitwit |
LET’S TRY SOMETHING NEW TOGETHER Normally, I offer little-to-no commentary on the strips and pages on the day they’re released. Last Thursday, I broke that rule a bit by linking to past Bubbles of Light episodes. I though it would be helpful and most of you seemed to enjoy that. You see, a small part [...]
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Nov 13, 06 | 41 – Swifty’s Litany |
WELCOME TO SUPERFOGEYS ORIGINS, ELDON COWGUR! Much anticipated and eagerly awaited, here now is Eldon Cowgur’s “Tangerine!” Oh, sure, I wrote it, but let’s face it–you’re here for Eldon. Well, over the next five weeks you’re gonna get him. Eldon’s mastery of ink line is something I stand in awe of. I wish I was [...]
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WORKIN’ HARD I’ve been working so hard on getting SuperFogeys Vol. 1 into the best possible shape (among other things–see below) that I just have not had time to write up my San Diego Comic Con report, so apologies for that. I do have some additional bullet points on the trade however. Check it out: [...]
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SUPERFOGEYS VOL. 1 UPDATE Things are going well with the production of the first mondo SuperFogeys trade paperback. Last week I did a complete recreation of the first SF strip in my current style (to be placed side-by-side the orignal on the first page of the book for comparison) and created some new Bing Knight [...]
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Nov 15, 06 | 43 – The Healer Approaches the Captain |
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Apr 23, 14 | 589 – The Lie of Never |
EXHAUSTED I’ve been working so friggin’ hard on the SuperFogeys Vol. 1 book that I don’t think I have anything left in my brain to talk about here. If you’ve ordered it already, I thank you. If you haven’t…I’m telling you, if you’re a fan, you don’t want to miss this. If the amount of [...]
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Sep 29, 09 | SF Origins: Herman’s Story, Pg. 5 “Time to Move On” |
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Oct 23, 08 | 174 – Big Mistake |
SPECIAL THANKS Thanks go out to Erin Heasley, Mike DeVito and Tom Racine for their help on this strip. “CHARACTERS” PAGE UPDATED Did a pretty big update of the “Characters” page yesterday. Added some new characters, mostly from the Tangerine origin (currently running in SuperFogeys Origiins) and from Chapter 7. Did some minor updates on some [...]
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TANGERINE’S ORIGIN COMES TO A CLOSE Big, big, big thanks go out again to Eldon Cowgur for the stellar job he did on bringing this story to life. What an amazing piece of work, right? Do yourself a favor and go back to the beginning to read it as a whole to see just what Eldon [...]
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Sep 2, 13 | 531 – Phantom Limb |
Jan 6, 14 | 560 – Lifeless |
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, SUPERFOGEYS So…I was so up in my own chili last week that I completely missed the boat on acknowledging the anniversary of the SuperFogeys. It was three years ago last week, on September 25th, 2006, that I showed the first SuperFogeys strip to the world (well, MySpace). This is what it looked [...]
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THE SUPERFOGEYS HOLIDAY BUNDLE Going up very soon in the SuperFogeys Store will be a special holiday bundle that will get you a newly designed SF t-shirt and SF Vol. 1 together for a discounted price. Was hoping to have it up by the time his post goes live, but y’know, life happens. Keep checking [...]
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Oct 17, 18 | HUGE NEWS! SuperFogeys Volume One—Inaction Heroes now on Kickstarter! |
Guest Strip by Rufus Edge of “Comicdeoxyribonucleicacid!” No. 2!
by Brock Heasley on December 24th, 2009GUEST STRIPPIN’ XMAS COMES A BIT EARLY! This is my last guest strip received, and the first one posted. I gave it the primo Thursday, Christmas Eve spot for obvious reasons. Rufus just did a bang up job bringing in the holiday cheer here and I could fathom waiting to show it to you. RUFUS [...]
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Mar 25, 13 | 491 – Proof |
THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT I’m gonna cut right to the chase here: I have a shot at a contract with DC Comics. This is it. This is what I’ve been waiting to tell you for months now. This is the “secret comics project.” What is it? It’s the story of a old movie theater [...]
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UPDATED! NOW IN FULL COLOR! Thanks, Jon! THE MONSTERPLEX PROMO IN FULL COLOR! MONSTERPLEX is really falling behind this week as the number one ranked comic pulled way ahead in the number of favorites. I know we can still catch up! And we can’t do it without you. I’m asking you call to please register, [...]
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Sep 27, 12 | GUEST STRIP by Crystal Murphy, Summer Fun Pt. 3 |
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THE ANNOTATED SUPERFOGEYS 265 Been a while since we heard from Tangerine, so here’s a little primer, with links: • After coming to Valhalla, Big T wasted no time in killing the shape-shifter Herman, then disguised as the villain Dr. Rocket. • Now incarcerated in a the Valhalla dungeon, he was visited by Captain Spectacular and told him something [...]
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Sep 18, 08 | 164 – Why “Tangerine?” |
THE BIBLE Wouldn’t you love to be in a book club with Tangerine? REMINDER! COMIC-CON! AND…BOOKMARKS! Just a quick reminder that I’ll be at the San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. This is the big one. I’ll be speaking at the Digital Comics panel inRoom 7AB on Friday at 11:30am. There will be a Q&A, so [...]
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WHAT IS THIS? Well, this is SuperFogeys Origins. In content if not format. For the vast majority of you, this is the first time you’re seeing Operation: Valhalla. Originally, this story was written for and appeared in the now-out-of-print first SuperFogeys collection and this is the first time it has ever appeared in its complete form [...]
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SF Origins: Operation: Valhalla, No. 2 “Interrupting Tea Time”
by Brock Heasley on August 25th, 2010THE ANNOTATED OPERATION: VALHALLA NO.2 If you’re just joining us, this is part two of the DIRECT SuperFogeys prequel, Operation: Valhalla. This is actually the first true appearance of the Third Man as this story came out in print before his online appearance in Chapter 3, “The Techno Shuffle.” We’ve also seen that this was not [...]
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SF Origins: Operation: Valhalla, No. 3 “Tangerine’s Tendencies”
by Brock Heasley on August 26th, 2010THE IMPORTANCE OF OPERATION: VALHALLA With today’s strip you can finally now see how this story begins to tie into SuperFogeys Chapter One. This is the real reason I wrote the story in the first place–to show that the Third Man knew what he was doing and what he wanted from the very beginning. There [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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THE ANNOTATED SUPERFOGEYS 295 …or, The Spiritual Journey of Tangerine. Take a trip with me, won’t you? You’ll recall that when Tangerine first came to Valhalla, things didn’t go so well for one of its residents. Soon afterwards, Big T was incarcerated in the Valhalla dungeon. He was not the least bit repentant. His sons then came to visit [...]
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Nov 25, 08 | 182 – Someone Steps Forward (Bubbles of Light 3) |
AND THE WINNERS OF A SIGNED COPY OF SUPERFOGEYS VOL. 1 ARE… MATTHEW NEW and MARJ! You both get a free, signed copy of SuperFogeys Vol. 1 with a sketch of your favorite character on the inside cover. Please send me your name and address to bwhheasley (at) gmail (dot) com! And don’t forget to [...]
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NEW CONTEST! BRING A NEW READER TO SUPERFOGEYS–WIN A JOHN JETT SKETCH CARD! Jerry origin artist John Jett has gone the extra mile and dreamed up a fun little competition for you all. He’s created two fantastic sketch cards and he wants YOU to have them! Check ‘em out: Here’s how it’s going to work: 1. [...]
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THE ANNOTATED SUPERFOGEYS 319 Dr. Klein spells things out a little more today and for those of you who need to know, here’s where you’ve seen these scenes before: Panel 1 – SF 124 – “Shooting” Panel 2 – SF 144 – “Jerry Wakes Up” (Which also features a little clue that almost no one [...]
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JERRY GOES TO COLLEGE That first panel cracks me up. It pretty much encapsulates everything Jerry is. Some commented (I forget who) that Jerry separating from Captain Spectacular to go to college is a lot like what Robin and Batman did during the 70′s. Yep. John Jett did some good work today! I especially love [...]
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THE SUPERFOGEYS 5TH ANNIVERSARY PRIZE!
by Brock Heasley on August 31st, 2011As you all know, we’re just a few weeks away from the big SuperFogeys 5th Anniversary celebration. Many of you are working hard on your artistic recaps of the chapters. Others are crafting short essays to look back on five years of SF. Those who do are eligible for a prize package which includes: 1. [...]
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the creation of the SuperFogeys. Can you believe that? Why, it seems like only yesterday… wait, not it doesn’t. It’s been a long freakin’ time and I can feel it in my bones. To celebrate, I drew up the above image (and inked and colored it meself) to [...]
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Chapter 5, “The Redemption of Dr. Rocket” Recap by Geoff Munn
by Brock Heasley on September 28th, 2011The 5th Anniversary Celebration continues today with a recap of Chapter 5, “The Redemption of Dr. Rocket” by Geoff Munn! See more of Geoff’s work at his site, www.pocketsciencecomics.com !
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The 5th Anniversary Celebration continues with this hilarious recap of Chapter 7, “Visiting Day” by Rossana Bugini! You may remember Rossana as the artist of the SuperFogeys Origins story “The Six Wives of Captain Spectacular.” If not, check it out now!
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UPDATE: Unfortunately, the person scheduled to do the Chapter 11 Recap was unable to complete the project. However, tomorrow the Recaps will wrap up in fine style with Chapter 12, “Jackpot!” Also unfortunate: I’m battling a bad case of food poisoning and that’s why I haven’t been very present on the site in the past [...]
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Our 5th Anniversary Celebration concludes today with this stellar “recap” of Chapter 12, “Jackpot!” from Steve VanDyken. Steve had the unenviable task of recapping a chapter that isn’t even finished yet, but his take on how it could end is wonderfully dark and cynical–and all the funnier for it. You’ll see how close he gets [...]
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And now you know Space Pig and Tangerine go back a looooong way. Big thanks to artist Daniel Woodhouse for the fantastic storytelling and art. His style really fits this story perfectly. Also, happy birthday to me. Best birthday present you could give me? Head on over to my new site at brockheasley.com! It’s a pretty cool [...]
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I love this page. I know there’s a million little panels, but this page just makes me laugh. Also: this appeared in print BEFORE the events of Chapter 5. The lucky few who picked up those first SuperFogeys books saw what was coming. Big thanks to artist Daniel Woodhouse! See you all next week for [...]
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And that’s the Space Pig’s origin! Hope you guys enjoyed this short little story. It’s one of my favorites. Big thanks to artist Daniel Woodhouse. Also, thanks to everyone for all the great responses to Wednesday’s big Chapter 12 finale! I don’t think SF has ever been this controversial, but I love all the questions [...]
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