…thats it no way in hell scaps that lucky, i can actualy see the twinkle of doubt in his eye’s that wonders if he’s dreaming or dead!
also that first comic looks like good old fashiond fun! i would love to read it
naa im actually quite proud of the bugger he deserves a brake from …wel his usual bad luck, im just bummed out that a fictional character with bad luck oozing from his pores has more dates than me at the moment :/
Maybe it will work this time! He’s had this coming to him for a long, long time now! Maybe they’ll become the new Bonnie & Clyde, Sid & Nancy, Ben & Jennifer…oh, wait, those ALL ended in death or disaster.
Thanks, man! Monsterpalooza is a lot of fun, as long as you don’t object to seeing cool special effects make-up, hot strange women, and a ton of awesome merchandise!
Why did I slam my head down?…because I couldn’t think of an ending. It was either do that or have the Monty Python foot come down and squash me.
But truth be told, it looks a lot more painful when you edit the film and remove a couple of frames to make it look faster. That’s a trick that goes as far back as the Three Stooges, and then some!
Marriott has two ‘R’s?! Huh…guess I’m just more used to less-classy motel accommodations (where else am I going to take my ‘escorts’ when I’m on a budget?).
Holy geez…stand-up is a whole ‘nother ball-game. I messed up constantly on the video, and of course the first one went even worse (if I didn’t already tell this story, I drank waaay too much coffee prior to filming and was such a jittery wreck that I drank rum to calm me down…and ended up slurring through the entire shoot).
Stand-up could be interesting, and there are certainly a lot of people who just take stand-up classes for fun, but if I were to go for it professionally I would need a WHOLE lot of work!
You have the personality and style that would make the audience forgive any errors you think you’re making. In fact, when/if you slip-up, you make it seem like you meant to do it. You have that total stranger, happy-evil, everyman-get off my lawn look that could hit big. I’m jus’ sayin’, Dawg. 😀
It’s probably at least worth taking a class (well, a GOOD class…that’s actually funny…and doesn’t just rip you off…seriously, I’ve seen some “comedy schools” set up in shabby back alley joints).
It could be fun, but man, there’s a huge difference between drawing comics and being a comic! At least we get erasers and CTRL+Z!
Prediction #829a: Scap’s gonna screw up this one real chance with a girl he’s ever had all through his own stupidity and super-villain ego flaring up at the wrong moment.
If he’s anything like me, he’ll hate it. Thai food is one of those damnedest things that I can’t stand but every woman I know seems to love to death.
Maybe it’s a trendy California thing, maybe the women I date just have radically different taste buds than myself (or are just more sophisticated than my mundane appetite), or maybe it’s all just a fluke of nature that I’ll never quite understand. In any event, I can stomach Thai food (ha ha) if it means having a nice evening with a lady.
…but honestly, there must be women I know who like Italian, right?
I can’t say I’m really keen on the Thai food either. That really must be a California thing… altjough I think my in-laws like it. There’s a pretty large Italian population in Philadelphia, so It’s probably not tough to find someone who likes Italian around here!
I first asked my wife out when we were having dinner (as friends) at a Mexican restaurant… with a mariachi band playing in the background… I had already known her for about 5 years at that point, so there was very little risk!
Dude, that’s awesome! Thai food may be a ‘trendy California’ thing, but Mexican food is definitely a California custom that’s pretty well embedded (whether I was living in Northern or Southern California there was always a taquería nearby…and, of course, all of my current housemates are Mexican so I get free tacos on occasion).
I think I probably just offended someone without meaning to…aw, what the hell. That’s also a California thing!
Funny, Scap doesn’t LOOK like a 5-year-old! Congrats, anyway!.
I’m in my 4th year at my current job, but still have two more years to beat my personal job-holding record.
I can’t be bad–I already spent all my money on crack!
That’s why mommy and daddy are supposed to teach kids how to budget their crack money! Didn’t you ever keep a piggy bank as a kid?…with “CRACK MUNNY” written on the side?
Happy Scap-a-versary!!! Cake… There should be cake! I tip my hat & raise my fork to you, Dada! (I will eat cake on your behalf).
And gosh-darn! Bone China has a Thai loving buddy… Brig! I blush. Smilies…
Did you bring enough cake for the REST of the class, young lady? Hmmmmm?
It was only appropriate that the yuppie California lady who recommended Thai food would be none other than Brig! Will we see her in this comic? Nope…there’s enough scary and demented characters already!
An adult? Just because she’s a decade or two younger than him doesn’t mean she’s a kid!…although it does make Scap kind of creepy. Actually, he was creepy before he even met her.
Good lord – gasp – somebody spilled Charlton romance comics all over Scapula! Is this a page from True Villain Love Secrets #23? What’s next, a guest strip by Art Cappello?
Wow…someone remembers Charlton comics! See, folks, those Watchmen characters didn’t just appear out of thin air!
I’ve never read a Charlton romance comic, although my comic book hero, Steve Ditko, had his first story published in one (this was long before he was slipping Ayn Rand ideology into his comics, although that would have made for one strange romance comic…).
If there ever is (or was) a True Villain Love Secrets series you know I’d buy every issue!
I can’t think of anyone better suited to write a True Villain Love Secrets series than … YOU, sir! That would be a blast. (and yes, I know you don’t have time to do so)
Monotone, until the SCREAMING starts!…and that’s when you know it’s love.
A year and a half of fumbling about with zines and publisher pitches, plus three and a half years of the webcomic….equals five years of well-spent effort! Let’s see how the next five goes!
Hi,
congrats to the scap-a-versary.
As it is so often, I’ve been a silent reader for some time now. Thought t’was time to flutter by and say hallo. Really hilarious work your doing here. But its not all! I just watched your adorable Dracula Birthday Vid and had to share it, spread the weird so to say. 😉 Also really love your Beetlegeuze, Python, and so on caricatures. Great work.
Please never ever cease to be so freakin funny! Carry on!
(do excuse multiple spelling errors due to my not being native to this tongue…)
Hello, Caracan, and thank you for the friendly comment! I’m always glad when the audience speaks up (I can only take so much ranting from George and Bearman!), so I’m glad that you did.
I’m happy to hear that you enjoyed Dracula’s Birthday (now there’s something even OLDER than Scapula!) and if you like the caricatures they can be purchased at any of my convention appearances (but they’ll be available in the on-line store soon).
No worries about the spelling errors; I only make about a hundred thousand of them…and when I do it in the comics it’s much worse!
Thanks, dood! The video is edited with Adobe Premiere, with some Flash for the comic montages and effects. Give it a try; I’m sure your readers would love to see your happy mug!
An inspiration? Awww….all of these years I thought I was just a bad influence on the kids!
Hey, wait a minute…CAMP?! You called me CAMP?!! Why, I oughta—if I wasn’t busy getting ready to be in the ‘Priscilla: Queen of the Desert’ tour I’d give you a good screeching!
But seriously, a pdf version of the zine is a fine idea. I’ll look into it and let you all know if it’s a go. Thanks, Jande!
Second panel–is Scapula part Crocodile? That is basically an amazing expression.
Tick tock, tick tock…Scap will bite off your hand if you get too close!
…thats it no way in hell scaps that lucky, i can actualy see the twinkle of doubt in his eye’s that wonders if he’s dreaming or dead!
also that first comic looks like good old fashiond fun! i would love to read it
Come now, does Scapula really strike you as that much of a pessimist? Don’t you think he’s capable of knowing happiness, acceptance and affection?
…actually, don’t answer that.
We’ll see what happens about getting that first zine story available for you readers. Updates to come.
naa im actually quite proud of the bugger he deserves a brake from …wel his usual bad luck, im just bummed out that a fictional character with bad luck oozing from his pores has more dates than me at the moment :/
Hmmm…try dressing like a supervillain. It’s worth a shot!
Looks like Scapie’s brain just went TILT .
No Ball return, either!…yeah, someone go ahead and make a ‘balls’ joke. You know you want to!
I’d guess he has his balls titled often enough hun……. I don’t think they’re returning any time soon.
PING!
Poor old Scap is headed for heartbreak! I just know it! Nothing good ever happens to him that isn’t taken away several pages later!
Maybe it will work this time! He’s had this coming to him for a long, long time now! Maybe they’ll become the new Bonnie & Clyde, Sid & Nancy, Ben & Jennifer…oh, wait, those ALL ended in death or disaster.
That does sound about right actually.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, is Scap on a date?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Eeeyup, looks like it…and he didn’t even notice until they were walking down the street! The male mind is always a little slow on the romantic uptake.
Congratulations on your 5 year anniversary! I will try to make it to the Monsterpalooza next weekend as well, it looks fun!
Thanks, man! Monsterpalooza is a lot of fun, as long as you don’t object to seeing cool special effects make-up, hot strange women, and a ton of awesome merchandise!
Slamming your head down on that table like you did… it explains… A-LOT! [smirk] Then again, at your age, the dain bramage has been done-eh?!? [grin]
Congrats on 5 years, erm 3 years, erm… Marriott has 2 R’s! Shiny bubbles… o.O
Why did I slam my head down?…because I couldn’t think of an ending. It was either do that or have the Monty Python foot come down and squash me.
But truth be told, it looks a lot more painful when you edit the film and remove a couple of frames to make it look faster. That’s a trick that goes as far back as the Three Stooges, and then some!
Marriott has two ‘R’s?! Huh…guess I’m just more used to less-classy motel accommodations (where else am I going to take my ‘escorts’ when I’m on a budget?).
Hey, Scap, I can’t believe it either. Just roll with it. Finally, a chick I don’t think you can even repulse. Nice! 😀
He stands a chance, doesn’t he? As long as he doesn’t double-date with Throgor!
Love the video! You should develop some kinda stand-up routine. 🙂
Holy geez…stand-up is a whole ‘nother ball-game. I messed up constantly on the video, and of course the first one went even worse (if I didn’t already tell this story, I drank waaay too much coffee prior to filming and was such a jittery wreck that I drank rum to calm me down…and ended up slurring through the entire shoot).
Stand-up could be interesting, and there are certainly a lot of people who just take stand-up classes for fun, but if I were to go for it professionally I would need a WHOLE lot of work!
You have the personality and style that would make the audience forgive any errors you think you’re making. In fact, when/if you slip-up, you make it seem like you meant to do it. You have that total stranger, happy-evil, everyman-get off my lawn look that could hit big. I’m jus’ sayin’, Dawg. 😀
It’s probably at least worth taking a class (well, a GOOD class…that’s actually funny…and doesn’t just rip you off…seriously, I’ve seen some “comedy schools” set up in shabby back alley joints).
It could be fun, but man, there’s a huge difference between drawing comics and being a comic! At least we get erasers and CTRL+Z!
Prediction #829a: Scap’s gonna screw up this one real chance with a girl he’s ever had all through his own stupidity and super-villain ego flaring up at the wrong moment.
Prediction #829b(par.6) Scapula is going to get mauled by a rabid basset hound!
Your guess is as good as any!
Congrats on the Scap-i-versary, Mr. C!
OH! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY ANN-I-VERSARY…
🙂
Heyyyyy, izzat from the Flintstones? “Awright, awright, knock it off!”.
Thank you kindly, Rob.
Happy third/fifth anniversary! I’ll have to get things together to do a convention this year… I have to finish compiling some stuff first.
One burning question… what will Scap think of Thai food?
If he’s anything like me, he’ll hate it. Thai food is one of those damnedest things that I can’t stand but every woman I know seems to love to death.
Maybe it’s a trendy California thing, maybe the women I date just have radically different taste buds than myself (or are just more sophisticated than my mundane appetite), or maybe it’s all just a fluke of nature that I’ll never quite understand. In any event, I can stomach Thai food (ha ha) if it means having a nice evening with a lady.
…but honestly, there must be women I know who like Italian, right?
I can’t say I’m really keen on the Thai food either. That really must be a California thing… altjough I think my in-laws like it. There’s a pretty large Italian population in Philadelphia, so It’s probably not tough to find someone who likes Italian around here!
I first asked my wife out when we were having dinner (as friends) at a Mexican restaurant… with a mariachi band playing in the background… I had already known her for about 5 years at that point, so there was very little risk!
Dude, that’s awesome! Thai food may be a ‘trendy California’ thing, but Mexican food is definitely a California custom that’s pretty well embedded (whether I was living in Northern or Southern California there was always a taquería nearby…and, of course, all of my current housemates are Mexican so I get free tacos on occasion).
I think I probably just offended someone without meaning to…aw, what the hell. That’s also a California thing!
I’m a lady, and I love italian. I. HATE. THAI.
German cooking is tops in my book though.
Funny, Scap doesn’t LOOK like a 5-year-old! Congrats, anyway!.
I’m in my 4th year at my current job, but still have two more years to beat my personal job-holding record.
I can’t be bad–I already spent all my money on crack!
That’s why mommy and daddy are supposed to teach kids how to budget their crack money! Didn’t you ever keep a piggy bank as a kid?…with “CRACK MUNNY” written on the side?
Another example of great dialogue and characters.
Thankya, thankya, thankya!
Happy 8th anniversary. 3+5=8 right??
Don’t forget Leap Years…I don’t know why, but that always screws things up. SCAPULA is about a hundred and twelve by now.
Happy Scap-a-versary!!! Cake… There should be cake! I tip my hat & raise my fork to you, Dada! (I will eat cake on your behalf).
And gosh-darn! Bone China has a Thai loving buddy… Brig! I blush. Smilies…
Did you bring enough cake for the REST of the class, young lady? Hmmmmm?
It was only appropriate that the yuppie California lady who recommended Thai food would be none other than Brig! Will we see her in this comic? Nope…there’s enough scary and demented characters already!
He looks like he needs an adult. 😀
I sure hope she’s not leaking his plans to those tools. It’s be a shame. They’re kinda cute together. At least not disgusting.
An adult? Just because she’s a decade or two younger than him doesn’t mean she’s a kid!…although it does make Scap kind of creepy. Actually, he was creepy before he even met her.
Good lord – gasp – somebody spilled Charlton romance comics all over Scapula! Is this a page from True Villain Love Secrets #23? What’s next, a guest strip by Art Cappello?
Wow…someone remembers Charlton comics! See, folks, those Watchmen characters didn’t just appear out of thin air!
I’ve never read a Charlton romance comic, although my comic book hero, Steve Ditko, had his first story published in one (this was long before he was slipping Ayn Rand ideology into his comics, although that would have made for one strange romance comic…).
If there ever is (or was) a True Villain Love Secrets series you know I’d buy every issue!
I can’t think of anyone better suited to write a True Villain Love Secrets series than … YOU, sir! That would be a blast. (and yes, I know you don’t have time to do so)
It could happen! If I ever run out of story ideas for these idiot SCAPULA characters I may just turn the whole thing into a soap opera!
First up…uh…Mira Mira cheats on her boyfriend with herselves.
Well what can I say. They make a charmingly oblivious and monotone couple!
Happy big 5 hun. Let’s see at least double that much!
Monotone, until the SCREAMING starts!…and that’s when you know it’s love.
A year and a half of fumbling about with zines and publisher pitches, plus three and a half years of the webcomic….equals five years of well-spent effort! Let’s see how the next five goes!
Hi,
congrats to the scap-a-versary.
As it is so often, I’ve been a silent reader for some time now. Thought t’was time to flutter by and say hallo. Really hilarious work your doing here. But its not all! I just watched your adorable Dracula Birthday Vid and had to share it, spread the weird so to say. 😉 Also really love your Beetlegeuze, Python, and so on caricatures. Great work.
Please never ever cease to be so freakin funny! Carry on!
(do excuse multiple spelling errors due to my not being native to this tongue…)
Hello, Caracan, and thank you for the friendly comment! I’m always glad when the audience speaks up (I can only take so much ranting from George and Bearman!), so I’m glad that you did.
I’m happy to hear that you enjoyed Dracula’s Birthday (now there’s something even OLDER than Scapula!) and if you like the caricatures they can be purchased at any of my convention appearances (but they’ll be available in the on-line store soon).
No worries about the spelling errors; I only make about a hundred thousand of them…and when I do it in the comics it’s much worse!
You’re welcome. Always glad to give back some love to the nice freaks that support us readers with the stuff. 😉
As for cons – maahh, that’s maybe a bit far for me to travel. All the way to the USofA, and so on.
Congrats on the Birfday, Scap!! Have fun at da Monster! Great video! What did you use to edit yer video? In any case, keep the love going strong!!
Thanks, dood! The video is edited with Adobe Premiere, with some Flash for the comic montages and effects. Give it a try; I’m sure your readers would love to see your happy mug!
Thanks! I wanted to mention your excellent voice acting ability m’friend… What was that? Mr. Jinx?
Naw, just my generic yokel voice. An oldie, but a goodie.
Well Scapula, Happy Birthday. Maybe that now, after five years of anguish and humiliation, you finally have a shot at happiness, but probably not.
Good Lord, you should really do a toast at someone’s wedding and say something along those lines. It would be a smash on YouTube!
Most certainly not! That would be the end of the series…
Anyways he’s so full of crap and selfdoubt, wouldn’t stand a chance on lucky or happiness.
Oh, there’s plenty of people who are filled with crap and self-doubt who can sometimes succeed…they’re called actors and musicians! Bada-boom!
Congratulations, Aidan! You are an inspiration to many of us.
I’d love to purchase a pdf copy of your first Scapula comic.
I totally love watching you in your videos. So deliciously camp! (I watched it twice) lol Hollywood’s loss is Comicdom’s gain.
An inspiration? Awww….all of these years I thought I was just a bad influence on the kids!
Hey, wait a minute…CAMP?! You called me CAMP?!! Why, I oughta—if I wasn’t busy getting ready to be in the ‘Priscilla: Queen of the Desert’ tour I’d give you a good screeching!
But seriously, a pdf version of the zine is a fine idea. I’ll look into it and let you all know if it’s a go. Thanks, Jande!
That would have given ‘Priscilla’ quite a twisted malicious turn. There’s something for my mind to ponder on… *evil grin*