BONE CHINA pt.6
The bearded feller is based on Mel Brooks, if that wasn’t completely obvious. It’s good to be da’ King.
No ideas are ever wasted on cartoonists: the Miscreants are made up of ‘reject’ character designs I found in my sketchbooks, which alone wouldn’t have worked well but put together are…well, even worse! I also made them a rock band because this comic needed at least one ‘theme’ team.
You may have noticed there’s at least four characters seen here with near-indecipherable speech patterns or accents. Playing with the English language has long been a tradition of comic artists (such as George Herriman, Al Capp and Walt Kelly), and dialogue can be as much of an art form in comics as the drawings. Besides, it’s not like theses guys are as hard to figure out as Dadaman or Inverto.
“April Fool’s, mutha-f***kas!”
I aaaalmost thought the Homophobe was Dax, for a minute there, but then I remembered this was the next day. And I keep wanting to hear the big guy as Cockney or Australian, but then I reread some of the accented words and it doesn’t match up!
Also, can’t help but think that sooner or later, El Disgusto is going to run into an opponent whom he has no power over. Wealth and power let you fulfill a lot of fantasies, which in turn makes you build up a tolerance and leads you after the ever-increasingly strange to get that old thrill back.
Or maybe Hypnausea. Not sure how far his ‘interests’ go (he’s so far seemed to be on the Kinky side of the Kinky/Perverse scale).
Could it be Dax? Who knows…we’ll have to wait until someone unmasks the bastard!
Wooly Rhinoceros is supposed to be Australian (because, as we all know, the outback is a perfectly suitable environment for prehistoric furry behemoths), although a lot of his dialogue was cherry-picked from a number of sources. It’s likely that other culture’s slang got mixed in with the wash.
Normally I would say “who cares”, but truth be told it does kind of irk me when I get this sort of thing wrong. It sort of reminds me of the old Claremont days in X-Men where Nightcrawler’s German and Wolverine’s Japanese were way, way off.
As for El Disgusto, there’s got to be even more disgusting people out there, but I really don’t want to go looking for them!
Why are The Miscreants, especially The Homophobe, wearing purple, exactly?
Its seems a bit off kilter…
April Fool’s to you too, Aidan.
It’s purple-ish, I guess. I wanted a common color to ‘unite’ their appearance as a team and somehow purple-ish black came up (traditional villains almost always wear secondary colors, which are green, orange, and purple, to off-set the primary colors that superheroes wear).
I gotta feelin’ dat ol’ Scapie is immune to El Disgusto’s shennigans. Just sayin’ he probably does care, one way or another. Probably has a t-shirt at the bottom of his laundry pile just about as bad. The t-shirt or the pile, just as disgusting.
PHEW! Just thinking about that made me imagine how bad an antisocial smoker like Scap would register to the ol’ olfactory senses. He’s probably never even washed that wife-beater!
With the reaction you would think it was HIS old lady going down on the donkey.
Egad! Maybe it is! That wife is going to have a LOT of explaining to do when Morrie gets home!
now i remeber why i prefer comics over books
i use too much immagination on words alone… disgusto is now the most horrible villain i have ever seen EVER
Just be grateful that all you’ve seen is El Disgusto and not his little collection!
Hey! Those pictures were stolen from my private collection six months! I’d like to have ’em back please.
Egad! I shoulda’ known!
Been swapping pics with Bearman again, ehhhhh?
A giant hairy Aus with a habit of smashing through things AND he’s in a heavy metal band? You just wrote up one of my sisters’ dream dates hun.
Now remember folks, when dealing with psychotic bands, the important thing is this: They’re all egotistical, so they only care about what you HAVE, not you. Give the nice men your wealth and try to fade to black in the background and you don’t get injured.
Also works on politicians, though with those prehistoric monsters, simply holding still works too. Evolution has been far kinder to heavy metal bands than politicians. Webcomic artists on the other hand, just run screaming. No telling what that lot of ankle-biting hair pullers might do if they get out of the cages we keep them busy drawing in!
In all seriousness, I find the fact that ‘The Homophobe’ is wearing a gimp mask to be hilarious, hun.
Hoo boy…all I’m going to tell you is that my dyslexia read “giant hairy Aus” as something VERY wrong (and if that happens to be your sister’s thing…well, I ain’t gonna stop her!).
I’m sure the Homophobe meant to grab a ski mask, but he forgot to prepare himself for the job and simply stopped at an S&M shop on the way to the robbery. Hey, there’s been worse improvisations; ever hear of the convenience store robber who wore a cardboard box on his head? I’m serious!
Musicians and egos always go hand in hand, almost like artists and egos (thankfully I’m just a cartoonist, and the only thing we’re arrogant about is the ability to irritate people…that, and biting ankles and pulling hair!).
Just don’t make any sudden movements…
You and me both, Dada – wasn’t until my double-take and audible “whahabidiba?” before I realized my brain’s damned auto-correct added a letter. Second read made more sense though it did take a few extra seconds to make the aus=aussie connection, heh.
May ‘da Brooks be with you…
🙂
“Spaceballs Da Doll…me!”
[zzzzzip]
“May da schwartz be wit’ you!”
“Adorable.”
El Disgusto might be one of the most depraved characters ever conceived. I am so glad those photos are facing away from the reader.
Can he really be any more depraved or offensive than Scapula? We’ll have to wait until they meet up…if any of your stomachs can handle that!
I do have enough respect for you readers to know when NOT to show something.
April Fools INDEED! I spent hours looking for that blogspot full of “tour dates” and couldn’t find a thing! I don’t know why I believe everything I read! [blinks]
They were too busy shooting up to update their blog properly. In fact they were too busy shooting up to do anything properly! Rockers and drugs…like the proverbial mouse with the cheese.
This one is weak with the Google-fu, in’he?
http://www.myspace.com/themiscreantsnj
http://www.reverbnation.com/themiscreantsrock
Well, whaddaya know…after checking out your links I did a search and actually found TWO MORE bands by that name (and there may be even more!).
I had even once considered naming them the Miskreantz (because misspelling is popular) but even THAT was used by someone!
All this makes me think of is one of the discussions in Spinal Tap where they mention that their band used to be called the Originals…only to find there was already a band by that name, so they became the New Originals.
I think the bearded Mel Brooks fellah is going to have nightmares for a very long time!
Hopefully he has enough good Jewish wine to wash out those horrid memories. And if anyone remembers “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”, he always has a few extra crates of the good stuff around!
Wooly Rhinoceros – that guy has hair between his toes, don’t he? The Homophobe – keep him out of Castro! El Disgusto – the most passive agrossive bad guy I’ve ever seen! Now when these foul fellas get hooked up with Scap, it’s gonna be a Super-Villain Steam Up like none other! Oy vey!
That’s it, when this storyline gets released in trade paperback I’m having you write the blurb on the back cover! Now if only you could work in Bone China herself and all of Scapula’s whininess you’d have a perfect summary!
Wooly Rhinoceros has hair everywhere (and I do mean everywhere…yup, even there…and there…). The Homophobe would happily go to the Castro…if he had a semi-automatic and a fast car to speed away in. As for El Disgusto, “agrossive” is easily the best description anyone could give him (other than, y’know, ‘bloated and obnovious’).
Anyone that weaponizes guitars has my respect.
Hells yeah! As several generations of rockers have shown us, a guitar can be used to batter anything, whether it’s a rabid fan or a fly on your sandwich.
The Miscreants have their own blog?! Now THAT I’d like to see!
Looks like they do!…it’s too bad they’re all semi-literate halfwits!
Ah, me, behind the times again. A.F. Joke was it? Well done Aidan. *puts head back down on the grindstone*
Good thing you caught up…there’s an exam next period! You don’t want to flop your finals because you weren’t up to date on the latest comics!
This has to be the single most disturbing super-villain team I have ever seen. And for that, I commend you.
Should it concern me that I have no trouble at all understanding all these “near-indecipherable” speech patterns?
If my readers can understand Inverto then I think they can understand anything. If I made a character who spoke entirely in chicken sounds I think a number of you out there would understand just fine!
I’m guessing you’re referring to El Disgusto, but hey, all three of them are pretty repulsive in one way or another.
I read your description on the play of the english language in comic, it’s definitely a technique I haven’t seen very much in webcomics lately, so kudos to ya!
Aww, thank ya, Jenn! I don’t think a lot of people play with speech patterns and accents anymore due to political correctness (or the chance that no one will understand what in the hey they’re saying), so I do my part to keep the old customs alive.
Ok, I’ll have to admit it: I hate slang. English is not my native language, and this kind of slang makes things more difficult to decrypt. Whaddya think ?
Not a lot of actual slang is being used here (except for Wooly Rhinoceros’ Australian and/or Cockney dialogue), mostly just playing with pronunciation and accents.
AWESOME! I love the El Disgusto’s secret power. Great stuff.
There, see folks?! El Disgusto has a fan! It had to happen sooner or later!