SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLES FEATURE pt.11
Raise your hand if you belong to that elite group of Americans who never reads instruction manuals to expensive machinery or equipment.
The Nintendo reference is for anyone else who was a “button masher” back in the day; those of us who could only play video games by hopelessly smashing every button until your thumb ached. Good ol’ memories…
Tune in next week for the 150th SCAPULA comic and a big surprise (you all know what it’s going to be…or do you?!).
Yuor villian and monsters drawing are most delightful and wicked. Keep it up and don’t spare the commentary.
By coincidence I coloured a comic today which had an explosion & I used “Kablooie” too. I had a bad feeling about this when he entered the Genetic Engineering room last episode. Love the look you’ve got on Scap’s face while he is standing in the machine. Genetic engineering meets guesswork. Can’t wait to see what Scap’s clone looks like.
omg it finaly happend D: the world will end in 7 days D:
Pushing random buttons is for winners.
I love his little narration of what he thinks about fancy science equipment.
I hope the caps lock button wasn’t on… that could cause some REAL trouble!
I have no idea what it is going to be. I am always the last to know. Give me a hint. Am I included? Am I excluded? Am I deluded?
Smash all the buttons! Lol it appears that the duplicate speaks backwards? And is that a new banner at the top DadaHyena?
It looks like it’s that time of year when the spammers migrate back to my site like it was flippin’ Capistrano, so if anyone’s comments got lost in the tidal wave of spam I flushed I apologize.
@techs Glad you enjoy, Techs Avery!
@TonyMcGurk ‘Kablooie’ is one of those onomatopoeias that never quite seems accurate (I’ve never heard an explosion that made that sound), but is still hilarious to see. If anything it implies the sound of someone shouting, “KABLOOIE!” in a high-pitched voice, which makes me laugh (unless if they keep on doing it…in which case, smother them with a pillow).
@BarbaricBob Nah, it’s not 2012 yet. That’s when they say the world will end (who’s ‘they’? I don’t know…that’s just what they told me…).
@TheMonahan Oh, hells yeah. For those of us who sucked at video games but had a friend/sibling/random acquaintance who rocked at them playing those old games was a truly crazed experience.
@JerryBenedict Wuh oh! Looks like he had the ‘Insert’ button on, too, where you end up accidentally deleting your type when you make corrections. I hate that!
@Bearman It’s going to be a duck. Don’t ask me how that works; it’s just going to be a duck. Maybe.
@Encoyroaba ‘Tis a new banner, indeed, and a bit of a teaser for the new Scapula book, which should hopefully be coming around Thanksgiving. Whoooops, I let a secret out. Bad me.
Hilarious!
Maybe it would have helped to pull out the cartridge and blow on it (that seemed to help with the old-school NES… sometimes).
🙂
@SpilledInky Ahhhh, the old “Nintendo remedies”:
1) push the cartridge inside the Nintendo slightly to the side.
2) blow the dust out of both the cartridge and the Nintendo.
3) press the ‘Power’ or ‘Reset’ button a bunch of times until something appeared on screen.
4) scream and swear and maybe smash your fist on the damn machine.
Those were the days.
Hmmm….. do I sense some sort of bizarro Scapula?
@LadyJenn “Me Bizarro am hate comments very little! Hate readers very little! Me Bizarro love this wonderful hangover! Love this hangover like heaven!”
…well, you get the idea.
It’s amazing that there was a manual at all, much less, that it included such helpful (if ignored) hints such as removing all non-biological items. Nah, it *probably* won’t matter!
you know scap works computers like i do 😀
ram in some stuff and if it starts making noise hit it with a hammer (i do this… it works for me) or a fist til it stops whining ( i recomend the same for kids who annoy you)my pc is nearly 7 years old and still running 😀
and bizzaro scapula O_o… would be awsome! or maybe its like a horrible skin fused to suit mutation because scap build duplications like a bed from IKEA
I am a self-confessed button-smasher. Even now, while playing my PSP, I find that hours later, I’ve got that thumbache that resembles arthritis. I know no other way. 🙂
And I’m really wondering what a Scap clone is gonna look like.
@macsnafu Aww, the Almighty Plot Device, setting the wheels of adventure in motion even if it makes no flippin’ sense. Who are we mere mortals to doubt its power?
@BarbaricBob When I was a teenager I got so made at a CD player I literally smashed it into pieces. Expensive waste, but some machines just have it coming to ’em!
Skin fusions and other Cronenburg stuff…could happen, but it would be yucky.
@George It’s like when old-timers want to show how hard they worked back in the day by showing the callouses on their palms. Our generation, we have the toughest callouses on our thumbs from all of the endless hours playing video games! Then, when we get old, we can lecture the new generation about, “back in my day, we had to work our thumbs to the bone to fight Donkey Kong!”.
Oh, goodness… there goes the neighborhood.
I cringe whenever the “button smashers” in my life try to “fix” stuff… I have a very gentle hand, I don’t ever force anything and take extremely good care of my toys so… SCAP DESERVES WHATEVER FRIGGIN’ MAYHEM OCCURS AS A RESULT OF HIS STUPID, COCKAMAMIE ACTIONS!
Oh, and I love your coloring this week.
<–button masher. It was the only way I could win at Asteroids!!! (That was ONE joystick and ONE button, for you youngsters!)
But I AM a directions reader! …er.. for the most part.
GREAT page today, DadaHyena. (No different from any other day, of course. <3)
@SquidRowMommy the First Ah, someone ELSE who is protective of their toys! I remember never wanting to share my stuff with other kids because everyone played too friggin’ rough and broke my toys! Rat bastard kids…I saved all of their names on a list, and soon, very soon, they will pay for hurting my plastic friends!
@SquidRowMommy the Second Thank you very much.
@Samantha Heyyy, Witchiepoo is back! Asteroids was before my time; my arcade of choice as a kid was Rampage. Now THAT was a real button masher (what else could you do in the game but punch stuff repeatedly?).
I don’t know if Asteroids had a instruction manual, but I wouldn’t imagine it would have been a hard read.
Another Scap-tacular episode! Lots to like in this one – the color, the effects, the I-need-to-change-my-shorts look Scap has in that final panel! Gonna need a clean-up in scanning chamber 4!
@MarkStokes I could have gone for the lowest form of humor and had someone mistake the scanning chamber for a port-o-potty…the result would be a half-human, half-poo duplicate. I wouldn’t ever use that; not necessarily because it’s too gross, but because ‘The Tick’ already used a similar idea with the Tick’s ‘mucus-clone’. That was something you don’t easily forget!
As usual I’m loving the strong storytelling and excellent art. I can’t wait to see what came out of the “port-o-potty thing”. Especially since it said something like “WEEP!” I’m sure Scap will be doing a bit of that soon.
@Jande Glad you’re enjoying the show!
Incidentally, you are probably the first, and only person, who has ever said, “I can’t wait to see what came out of the “port-o-potty thing”.”…actually, no, Bearman says that all the time. He’s odd like that.
Now…… Bizarro Aiden, would that be ‘boring’ or just ‘creepy’? What’s the opposite of funny? Or the inversion rather?
I’ve already met bizarro me. He’s my pocket philosopher hehehehehehehehehe. He’s boring, cynical, sober as a judge, and nonviolent.
Another comic that keeps me on the edge of my seat!!!
Uh-oh! Scapula meets unScapula! Does this mean the universe will implode?
i wonder why scapula thinks a army of not trained no fighting experianced weenies would help him in anny way at all :/
all they could do is be fodder sothat he could find the exit signs
@LadyJenn “Bizarro Aidan” is already a contradiction of itself, which would cause an implosion in the universe and everything would go to pot. The only thing that could balance that…is…for me to be more bizarre. All of existence depends on it!
@Jenn Don’t fall off your seat or you’ll land on your little butt!
@Spencey See my comment to Lady Jenn. The universe sits on top of a shaky table.
@BarbaricBob Well, if it works, it works! I don’t think he cares much for the safety of duplicates.
but doesnt he realize the words ” but after that they are on their own” are also duplicated into their brains O_O they would turn on eachother the second they see even a sligtly intimidating person and run while making woob sounds… mass woob…id pay to hear that actually
Ha ha! We musta had the same friends! I was the very same way! NOBODY played with my Star Wars figures! and the ONE time I let somebody, Billy ran off with R2D2… after an extensive search…. Billy’s little brother had it…. slobbered on it and rendered it USELESS! GAH! … to this day… I will not forgive.
@BarbaricBob Every weenie for himself! It’s a modern sensibility!
@SquidRowMommy I think it has something to do with those of us who were kids with overactive imaginations and could see our toys are real friends of “Hobbes” caliber, and the kids who had other kids to play with and thus treated toys as firecracker fodder. That’s just a theory (go back to the CHILDREN ARE THE DAMNED; OR, LI’L SCAPULA story for more on the topic).
Incidentally, I never had ‘Star Wars’ toys as a kid, but I would be kinda’ bummed to see poor R2D2 meet such a grisly fate. If it had happened to the prequel characters that would have been fine (say, tying Jar Jar to a firecracker DOES sound like fun…!).
Dada… agreed Jar Jar must die.
Tooo…. I think yer right, though. My very first Star Wars figure was Darth Vader. I’d not seen the movie yet but he sat on my dresser …I actually thought that he would protect me from the Monsters in my room with his little “plastic sword.” A little ironic, I guess.
@SquidRowMommy You never know. Ol’ Darth really had a heart after all…and apparently was a whiny teenager who couldn’t act until he put on the armor and turned into David Prowse/James Earl Jones, which kicks up your “manly points” by about 10,000.
I’m sure he would have protected you…hey, maybe he really did! You were never eaten by monsters, right?
why do i think darth vader is in the next villains and monsters?
il never understand why they traded in droids for clones *much more expencive and you gotta pay them!!!!*
i bet that second deathstar would be finished if they had droids instead of lazy ass clones building it
I like Scapula’s “meh” attitude, funny. But, man, I wonder what all this have created? Sounds like the inverse of Scapula… possibly Alupasc? 😉 oh yeah, same thing happened to my nintendo too…
@BarbaricBob Nope, today’s baddie is Creature from the Black Lagoon. Snap!
@alecho Alupacs, you say? Man, that reminds me of all of the movies where Dracula uses the brilliant pseudonym “Alucard” and no one can quite figure it out. People are dunderheads in the horror movies.
To be fair, maybe it’s just that monsters are clever enough to only go on rampages and murder sprees where people are generally idiots? I would.
Funny thing, I just got off the phone with my son (adopted, fyi), and heard Mario music in the background. He’s still got MY old nintendo!
@LadyJenn Did you hear any explosions on the other end of the phone? Might have been that old 8-bit system going KABLOOIE! Don’t press all of the buttons at once!
People are idiots; that’s been pretty firmly established. Scap will be wearing it on a T-shirt soon enough.
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Love the Nintendo references. I can relate – I hate reading manuals. I probably would have done the same thing. Well done!
@FrankMHansen It’s funny, because when I was a kid I absolutely LOVED reading the manuals that came with Nintendo games, especially when they had those nice glossaries of all the characters. It was often more entertaining than the game itself!
Of course I read manuals…as a last resort, when all else fails.
Or sometimes when I’m just bored: “Huh, I didn’t know it could do that!”