SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLES FEATURE pt.9
First off, I just need to say that my Wacom tablet wasn’t functioning when I did this week’s strip; the entire page was colored and shaded with a friggin’ mouse. Try to look impressed.
I remember an anecdote where a female writer (I don’t recall her name) was asked by nervous male writers how they could better write their female characters. She responded by telling them, “Write the women as if they were men.” This bit of advice was pretty helpful, especially when you consider how gender roles are so easily blurred in the SCAPULA series (just look at Jemini and Hypnausea).
…and is anyone really surprised that Knuckle Sam is into women?
I’m really surprised that Knucles Sam is into women…
i laughed so hard at the last pannel xD
this page is full of awsome faces 😀
and how the f*ck can you get lost… in an office building O_O
@TonyMcGurk You’re really surprised that Knuckle Sam is into women? Hey, everyone! Tony is really surprised that Knuckle Sam is into women! Imagine my surprise at your surprise that Knuckle Sam is into women.
Egad, we’ve just started a running gag…
@BarbaricBob Awesome faces and hard laughter, and the surprise that Knuckle Sam is into women…dagnabbit!
You can definitely get lost in most office buildings (especially if you’re a little moron named Scapula). The monotonous nature of this kind of environment, where every floor, every hallway, every room looks exactly the same is bound to confuse people, especially if they’ve only just taken a job that same morning (Scap probably should have cased the joint more thoroughly before he pulled this heist).
Hahaha… cue the slowly galloping white horse!
Uh… I wonder if Scapula would grab me a cola… you know… since he’s right there anyway (again)?!
🙂
Makes me wonder if our stormtroo- Mira Mira’s would be making the same jokes about Jemini. After all- She’s not the smallest either. The last panel made me snicker. Especially the transition was amusing.
Last, but not least: Don’t you DARE doubt your coloring and shading again. Next time, I might not be so forgiving. If you had not mentioned your lack of perfect drawing tools, we would not have noticed. Even now that you did, I did not notice.
And I am a person with a knack for details.
@SpilledInky I get the feeling the poor white horse would get its back crushed by the combined weight of Sam and Jem…heh heh.
@Kinare The Mira Miras gossip like crazy, like any collective of like-minded people (and duplicates). We’ll see more of that later.
And from now on, if I ever catch myself in self-doubt again, I’ll picture you hovering over my shoulder and shouting, “BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, DAMN IT!” and then spring back to work! I’m always flattered when my readers care.
With a mouse? Really? Nicely done! Believe in yourself, Damnit!
Ha! It makes me laugh that Scap is lost in an office building! Ha… ahem… it can happen.
Oh… I miss Hypnausia… Squeeeee!
D’awwwww…… reminds me of myself when I was younger, stupider, and well….. younger and stupider.
So we now have a smarter than herself mastermind, massed clones of arrogant asian, and a huge raging ball of fury vs. a spineless ball of chaos and cowardice in a confusing mess of identical rooms. Why do I forsee a scooby doo style chase?
As for your art, I can’t repeat myself anymore. So next time I hear doubt I’ll just hit you with a 2×4.
@SquidRowMommy Y’know folks, I wasn’t really DOUBTING myself, I just said I had to use a mouse because my Wacom tablet was being poo. If I’m going to doubt myself it’s going to be for something more emotionally crippling than breaking my computer toys.
So, anyhow, yes he’s lost. He’s eternally lost. It’s a metaphor for how we get lost in the corporate maze that is modern America, or maybe it’s reflective of the subconscious imagery of the Jungian school…or maybe Scap is a flippin’ dweeb who can’t find an exit sign!
Don’t get your hopes up on Hypnausea. Last we heard of him he was pinched for selling stolen artwork.
@LadyJenn She reminds me of when I was…well, romantically smitten with a two-headed gangster woman. Hey, it can happen!
Scooby-Doo? Scooby-friggin’-Doo?! This may isolate part of my audience, but I never liked Scooby Doo. There, now I’ve hurt everyone’s feelings. And guess what? I HATED SCRAPPY DOO, TOO! Take that!
Promises promises, regarding that 2×4…hey, at this point I might enjoy it!
Sam may be into women, but not just any women. Oh no, her taste runs towards thick-thighed femme fatales with double-minded determination to run the city’s criminal underworld. Good job with the mouse, I know that ain’t easy!
you didnt like scooby doo?D: well scrapy doo is a little ******* and a ***** but how can you not like scooby?:O
and miras are just tarded.. i mean call the cops? thats like a burgler calling the cops in the victems house saying the owner treathens him with a baseballbat!
where the hell did she get a degree?
That last panel is priceless. [smirk] …and whats wrong with using your mosue? it looks fantastic! [says the guy who uses a mouse when he colors] o.O
Awwww….I think those two will make a cute couple. 🙂
Also, I love the coloring in this one. I can only color with a mouse, so I know the hard work you put in to get this one done. 🙂
What? No heavy-handed (and heavy-thighed) cat fight? C’est la difference!
And in all fairness, the earliest episodes of Scooby Doo are the best. Before the guest stars and before Scrappy Doo, and before all the other schmaltzy ways they tried to add glamour and glitz to the basic teen mystery-solving machine.
I like how my old Gravatar pic is still showing on these old comments, even though I changed it at some point.
@MarkStokes I would say Sam has some most interesting tastes…not that I can’t appreciate a thick-thighed femme fatale, either. Y’know, I would be ashamed posting something like that except I’m pretty sure we’re all immature pervs here, so let’s just live it up!
@BarbaricBob I guess Mira Mira is under the impression that she’s more-or-less running a legitimate scientific institute, but of course she would get into a gigantic hassle if the authorities ever found out. From what I’ve heard cloning is actually illegal in Japan (someone correct me if that’s wrong), so I wouldn’t imagine a business like this would be all to legal here, either.
…not that illegal businesses ever deter Jemini, but she’s comfortable with being a crook.
@jynksie Scott, I drew that last panel knowing that you and George would jump up and down like the junior high kids who’ve just found a skin mag on the street (not that I’ve ever experienced that…). And speaking of George…
@George See, I knew you’d appreciate it, too! Long live the collective licentious mind of America’s cartoonists!
I’m also glad everyone likes the colors. My crayolas sure come in handy when my Wacom tablet is acting like poo.
@macsnafu Now I’ve done it…I’ve riled up the loyal Scooby-Doo crowd. Someone out there’s going to burn me an effigy that smells of Scooby snacks!
I have to admit I thought Shaggy was a fun character, and yes, some of the earliest episodes actually did have scary ghosts that frightened the smallest of children (probably me). Someday, when I’m curious or semi-nostalgic (or leave the TV on to the Cartoon Network Boomerang channel) I might give those old shows another try.
Poor Sam, she’s going to be so disappointed when she finds out that Jemini isn’t into women…or…well, actually, who knows? We’ve seen her with one guy and that was for information. Hey, maybe one head goes for women, the other goes for men! That would be pretty interesting story fodder right there.
Hehehehehehehehe. Hey I just like listening to Casey Kasem. Shaggy was a hoot. The rest of the scooby doo gang were kinda doofy beyond repair.
So all I keep wondering is, how big of a monkey wrench can Scapula throw in here? And I keep answering myself…… Jenn, my girl, you don’t have an imagination that big.
@Longtail Interesting notion; I’ve played with several ideas about each head having separate interests. Maybe if a good story idea pops up we’ll see that develop.
In the meantime, whatever her preferences may be, Jem sure as hell isn’t going for her huge, manic admirer. Love is cruel!
@LadyJenn I think I remember the old cartoons when Kasem was Robin the Boy Wonder…man, he could beat the hell out of Chris O’Donnel any day!
Let your imagination run wild! Or do I have to sing the Willy Wonka song to you?
I think I’ve seen those vending machines that Scap keeps walking past… in fact.. I think I’m lost in the same building…
@JerryBenedict Grab me a Diet Kook while you’re there!
I’m not surprised at all that Knuckle Sam is into woman. I found that her love with the flippy puppy so gay (at begin of story). Also she has a licorn in her room, and you must be really gay to like licorns. Every girls that like licorns (especially the ones that poop rainbows) are lesbians, I would bet.
Great twist but poor Scapula is on his own again. Love panel 3 by the way.
@mehdi I just learned some French today: licorne is francais for unicorn. I’ll leave it to the other readers to debate whether all lovers of unicorns/licornes are homosexual; I have to sidestep the conversation, since I have a few close friends who are obsessive Lady Gaga fans and will kick me severely if I say anything derogatory about her.
@FrankMHansen Scapula is always…ALWAYS…alone! Sob.
Glad you liked!
I thought it was just a phase that she passed after her first appearence….
A mouse.
You did all that… with a mouse. How did you train it to colour so beautifully?! Why it’s almost as if you, Aidan, coloured it! >.>
Loving this tale. :`D
@mehdi Interesting theory….. except I’m a lesbian and the only thing I’d have to do with a unicorn is spit roast it, while my pocket philosopher is pretty well asexual and likes them a lot (apparently through the mythology format).
Last I checked besides, liking unicorns was actually more of a ‘girly’ thing than a ‘gay’ thing. Then again, I admit I stopped knowing what made one girly when I realized that all the other eight year olds didn’t have foot long gator skinners in their belts to help their old man gut bears with…..
Also, anyone notice how much Lady Gaga looks like Marylin Manson about half the time? (Now I’m just trying to get our dear host into hot water hehehehehehehe, but it’s true)
It just occurred to me (duh): you know what would *really* be scary? Clones of Scapula!
@Encoyroaba Oh geez…if you’re referring to her appearance waaaay back in A CRAPPY CRIME CAPER then I can see how you made that assumption. Truth be told I’m actually a little ashamed of her character design in that story: it’s such a pointless stereotype that I fear someone like might actually find me and break my legs.
Then again, it’s not like I’m being kind to the “skull-faced sissy” demographic.
@Jande I will say this: having a painting background really helps a lot with coloring the strip. It’s been a long, long time since I actually painted traditionally (I was an acrylic painter, if you must know), but the mileage does help.
If anyone out there is curious as to how you can color better, just take a painting course at your local community college, or do it on your own. It does wonders, seriously.
@LadyJenn “I’m so hungry, I could eat a unicorn!”…sounds like a cross between a redneck and an elf. Hey, there’s an idea! It wouldn’t work in SCAPULA, but maybe I could sell it to Dave Reddick for “Legend of Bill”.
Gaga…Manson….Gaga….Manson….yeah, I see it. I really do see it now. Maybe they’re the same person and likes to switch roles as needed, or…maybe…they’re duplicates of eachother! Egad! What has Mira Mira done now?!
@macsnafu That would be silly and wrong, plus (as we learned earlier in this story) a clone of Scapula would be just a baby. Then you’d have a bunch of baby Scapulas…which could be really friggin’ funny.
Easy to get out, Scap! Just keep going in one direction long enough and you’ll eventually go smash out a window…or into a wall.
@Treike A very apt metaphor for any problem we may face in our lives: keep on walking forward…just pray you don’t go headfirst into any concrete walls.
Ever get lost in a cube farm? It can happen. Every row looks the same.
I want to get some Kook right now.
Oh and nice mouse work.
Redneck elves. Why can I not stop laughing about that?
is jemini just small or is sam getting bigger?:o i mean sam was always tall but with jemini next to her it realy shows
Scap is going to get SUCH a pounding…
@Bearman A cube farm? Vas is das? Is it like a farm where they grow cubes out of the ground? How do they make a Rubix cube? Tell me, tell me, tell me!
“Nice mouse work”…I was going to make some sort of Disney joke, but I can’t think of anything at the moment (just now having my coffee). Anyone else want to take this one?
@LadyJenn I’d imagine someone has already done it (probably on Cartoon Network), but if not then maybe I’ll draw one in. Hey, Christmas is coming up soon, and I’m pretty sure they celebrate Christmas in the south!
@BarbaricBob Good eye; Sam actually is humongous in some panels (especially in scenes where she’s fighting the Mira Miras). You could either say I’m doing this for effect (‘artistic license’, God bless it), or maybe I have no attention span. Hey, look, a dime.
@ChrisWatkins Word, my brutha. Word. Peace out, yo.
Haha Knuckle Sam is full of surprises! That last panel totally threw me off, I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next!!
I always blame people seeming bigger when they’re thrashing other people on forced perspective. Like when you’re staring down a shotgun barrel and it seems like it’s as big around as a bazooka. Whatever’s going to hurt you looks scary.
Alternatively we can go with artistic license yes…. although when I hear that I always imagine an FBI goon leaning over someone’s drawing board demanding to see one.
@Jenn What’s next? TROUBLE, dat’s what’s next! Ha ha HA!
@LadyJenn Geez, two Jenns I have to respond to…but this one is a “Lady”!
I don’t recall ever looking down a shotgun barrel, but sooner or later someone will force me into marriage. When that day comes I will know once and for all if it seems as big as a bazooka.
FBI?…where?…aw, crud. Gotta’ run!
Hahaha, love the final panel. And what’s that drink on the vending machine? Kook? wanna give it a try 🙂
@alecho Shhh! Don’t tell the Coca-Cola corporation or I’ll get in really big trouble.