BONE CHINA pt.18
Here we go: for those of you who have been waiting impatiently for something to happen, we’re moving on now into the climactic third act of the story. Will Bone China save Scapula? Can she? Could she? Would she? Should she? She she? She bop, he bop, a they bop…Scap to death?
In other news, I’m preparing my fall convention schedule, so if anyone wants to recommend a good comic con you would like to see me in please feel free to leave your suggestions below. I mostly stick to the West Coast, but if it seems like a REEEEALLY profitable con I might be persuaded to travel elsewhere.
Talk about must see what happens next!
Only one way to find out! That’s right…TIME TRAVEL!
Nice touch, adding that last panel portrait of Bone to the banner.
I’m surprised no one noticed I did that two weeks ago! I also added Tigadactyl, but I guess he’s not popular enough to be noticed.
Tigadactyl is kinda small and in the corner
Jim
That’s because no one loves him.
Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a detective! Come to think of it, I’m not even a doctor, and your name isn’t Jim! DAMMIT!
Hey! Don’t mess with Jim! Jim is awesome! Jim can beat up a grizzly bear with its own arm!
True. You don’t mess around with Jim. http://youtu.be/-4qUXcXuMSE
…but could Jim defeat Leroy Brown? Now THERE was a mean ol’ bastard!
but she’s a bit blurry. maybe you should look after her resolution.
I was going to say Cincinnati but you said you want to make a profit.
What con is there? What time of the year is it? I may not be super-eager to travel further out of state for cons, but you never know. If it’s worth it, or the town is something special to behold I just might check it out.
Well, I live in Des Moines and can’t afford (money or vacation-wise) to go very far out of my zone. So unless you can get as close as KC, Minneapolis or at least Chicago …
Bah, stop being such a Coastie! 😛 C’mon inland a bit!
Chicago might be worth a trip, seeing how it has such a rich history of gangster violence. Unfortunately it’s STILL crime infested, and the crooks don’t dress so snazzy anymore!
Hmmm… knowing Scap’s propensity for getting things wrong, I wonder if Bone China isn’t quite the back-stabbing she-devil she seems to be at this point in the story. I guess we just have to wait and see as the story unfolds.
As for Cons, Tucson Comic Con is a growing event, and from my visit last year, seems to be one that will continue to improve. Would it be worth it to you for a trip to Southern Arizona in November? I’m not sure. Travis Hanson makes the trip out from Southern California, but it’s only about a six hour drive for him. Here’s the link if you want to check it out:
http://tucsoncomic-con.com/
I keep considering getting a table at some of the small cons like this one, to help promote my book.
Things are unfolding pretty soon (there’s only so long I can string you all along), so we’ll find out in no time.
Thanks for the con suggestion! I’m not familiar with the Tucson Comic Con, but Arizona might not be too much of an excursion. Thankfully it’s in November, because I have no desire to go out into the Arizona sun at any other time of the year!
I don’t know if you’ve met Travis at any other cons. He draws the webcomic, “The Bean,” ( http://www.beanleafpress.com ) and is just generally a nice guy who is also very helpful. My guess is, if you drop him a note and ask him how Tucson has been for him as an artist, he’d happily tell you.
I love going to the cons, as I not only get to meet some of the artists whose work I’ve been enjoying, but I get to meet artists for the first time, and get introduced to other works to enjoy. Tucson is especially good, since it’s maybe a five minute drive from home.
Thank you again for the input, Hoomi. I have to admit I’ve never read “The Bean” before, but I checked it out and it looks like a fine, imaginative comic. Travis seems like a good guy (anyone who can balance an art career and parenthood deserves some respect); I may end up dropping him a line.
I’ll look into Tucscon; if it’s worth my while hopefully I can secure a table there before too long.
If you decide to come to Tucson and need some local help, let me know. I can provide an address if you have materials you want to ship to save on travel costs, and I have no problem with the idea of meeting an artist at the Con during set-up to deliver such. (Shipping early via UPS or something similar has to be cheaper than paying overweight or extra baggage on an airline if you fly).
hehe, you get some black cigarettes here. they’re vanilla flavourd… ^^
nice look on her there in the last panel!
Vanilla flavored cigarettes? Mmmmm….now if they only made chocolate and strawberry you get puff all three and get Neopolitan!
Crikey. That must be the noisiest cigarette in the world if she didn’t just hear Scap being pounced.
Maybe she’s walked off too far to hear? Maybe she does hear and doesn’t care? Maybe she’s afraid of getting involved? Maybe this, maybe that…hell, we’ll find out before long!
Oh scapula, you ain’t bad, you ain’t nothing.
But they say the sky’s the limit
And to me that’s really true
And my friends you have seen nothin’
Just wait ’til I get through…
Because I’m bad, I’m bad.
I don’t know if Scapula is anywhere near as ‘Bad’ as ol’ Jacko, but we can only hope. I also feel inclined to make some sort of comparison between the two of them (both having had extensive amounts of plastic surgery in their lifetimes), but that would be wrong and naughty.
I don’t think Bone is gonna do anything to save Scap this round. He’s gotta get snot beat out of him for awhile before she decides that he has had enough. Death would be the only thing she would attempt to prevent. Of course, I could be wrong. 😀
Oh dear! Are people losing faith in Bone China?…or Scap’s ability to stand up and fight like a man? Okay, I know you’ve ALL lost faith in the latter!
It had already been pointed out in last week’s comments that you are very practiced at lighting effects, and I think that first panel really reinforces the point. Shadowed face, but a glow just on the low angle of the one side of her face, the part that is facing the lighter’s flame.
Very nice, very professional. It’s the little things like that which separate the craftsmanship from the pulp dreck being ground out nowadays. Kudos, Dada.
And this really puts all my thoughts in a spin again, too. Scapula has a bad habit of not “catching on” until it’s already too late. So if he’s already figuring BC to be the enemy, then history insists that means he is likely wrong … and I have to look at the other possibilities (she’s totally innocent, she’s a patsy, she’s an unknowing participant, etc).
Or you could just be throwing us another curve ball.
GAH! Stop it! 😛 I work in *tech support* for crying out loud! Am I not already in enough PAIN? Are you not already entertained?!? My poor head, I need an aspirin …
…and if the truth turns out to be that the entire story WAS JUST A DREAM…how many of you will try to hunt me down and beat me to death?
No, I would never pull that one on you. Well, except for that Shakespeare story I did the one time, but I don’t know if that was a dream or just out of continuity or…actually, just forget I mentioned it (and ignore the fact that I made it a hyperlink).
Incidentally, thank you for the kind words about the lighting; I didn’t have a great art school experience, but one of the benefits was one good teacher who really hammered down the importance of using light and shadow to its best use.
Not only could I guarantee a line of people hunting you down, but also that while pummeling you I would be screaming “THAT WASN’T EVEN FUNNY WHEN DALLAS DID IT!!!!”
Aaaaaaaaand there goes all mystery about my age. Ah well.
YIKES!
Looks like Scap just got his face recycled.
Looks like he just got canned!…see, see, ‘cuz he landed in a garbage can and…well…uh….yeah. Forget it. I’m going back to bed.
Looks like Scap has a one way ticket to painsville… followed by a long stint in physical therapyville… than recoveryville… hmm… my “ville” hyperbole is getting pretty thin.
Dude, that almost sounded like a masochistic version of Disneyland! Y’know, “Painland”, “Intensive Careland”, “Brain-Gougingland”, “Jonas Brothersland”…
Yeah, looks like the next storyline is how pissed off Scap can make the nurses at the local hospital before they decide he hasn’t suffered enough at the hands of the Miscreants…
That story would end with someone getting a bedpan-induced concussion. Most likely Scap (and then he gets no Jell-O!).
Ahaha the “That is so gay” part cracked me up, totally fits but doesn’t at the same time. Another fantastic episode in the Scap’s world!
It sort of reminds me of a line from The Simpsons: “You just kissed a girl? That is so gay!”. I didn’t have that in mind when I wrote it, so no one can accuse me of plagiarism!
This one’s got it all. Stewing, stalking, stomping! And what’s Bone gonna do, hunh? Really like the cityscape in the first panel, and the great atmosphere, Aidan.
Hey, thanks Mark! The first panel is just another reminder to all that this series still takes place in San Francisco, a town I miss dearly despite my occasional jab or potshot at it!
3 people are probably gonna learn that underestimating scap can be bad for that one thing people tend to do…what was it again…owyeah breathing,
because for all his screwups(and downs) he is still a man who i dont want as a enemy
Wise words, Mr. Bob, but will the Miscreants heed that advice? The answer is probably either really silly or really violent, but someone will have learned a lesson!
I’m just going to go on record here as suspecting one of three things here. First, Scapula is going to get saved by someone……. MAYBE Bone China, maybe someone else (Heaven forbid the cops actually break up a gang beating!). Second, Scapula is going to get a moment and use his phenomenally well developed sense for escape routes and shockingly well practiced 100 meter dash.
Third and least likely, he’ll wig out and experience one of those rare rage induced moments of ferocity and seriously hurt some people that weren’t expecting it.
At this point in his life hun, you’d think he would hire someone bigger to beat up the bullies for him. A satisfying vocation, I assure you, hehehehehe.
To answer your, a-herm, ‘suspicions’ as it were (clearing of throat…uh, cracking of knuckles as I type):
Suspicion the First: the only person who could save Scapula is Jesus, and He’s probably more concerned with saving starving orphans and abandoned puppies than the likes of ol’ Scap.
Suspicion the Second: No running in this one! There are some problems you just can’t run away from…yes, a gang of psychotic jerks beating on you in an alley is probably a situation where you should run, but maybe not this time!
Suspicion the Third: Maybe’s he’s got a gun. Or a nunchaku (along with the skill to not knock yourself in the forehead, ribs, or groin).
Who knows, maybe it’s about time he invested in some back-up, or a good bodyguard that would put up with his smoker’s stink and neverending whine-fests!
I love the last Panel, there, Dada… Nice BC with the ciggy smoke and hair.
Makes you want to grab a pack of Cloves, wander out in the fog and reenact some Wuthering Heights type melodrama!