BONE CHINA pt.20
Today’s comic is actually made up of two separate pages. After finishing them, however, I felt that this scene needed to play out as a whole, and that a week-long interim would have really hurt the overall mood.
Today’s comic is actually made up of two separate pages. After finishing them, however, I felt that this scene needed to play out as a whole, and that a week-long interim would have really hurt the overall mood.
Sadly this page fits my life to a T… minus the physical kick to the gut LOL
Love BCs face in panel 6
Jim
Awww….Jim, I’d buy you a beer if I associated with any of my readers. Of course, if any of the other friendly readers here would care to comfort Jim with a tall cold one, I’m sure it would be appreciated!
Well, dear mister Jim, If it makes you feel better I completely identified myself (well, not completely, but a lot)with the Lil’ Scapula storyline, (although I was waaaay more deserving for all the hate and my parents were and are waaaay nicer). XD
(twitch)
But who were the Miscreants talking to? If she wasn’t in on it, then was it just coincidence? Or was she in on it, and this is the final big stab … set Scap up then when he figures it out, turn it on him like he is just being paranoid and blew a good thing?
Though in Scap’s defense, if she really understood anything about Scap she would know he had good reason, and to just “ride out the storm” until he got his senses back. C’mon, when it comes to emotional baggage, Scap needs his own friggin private luggage terminal when he travels.
(twitch)
Sooooo many questions. Still more to come? You wouldn’t leave me hangin like that would you? Buddy? Pal? Uh-oh …
(twitch) (twitch)
Who indeed? We’ll learn who the Troubleshooter is next week (OOPS! Spoiler!). This story’s not over just yet, so we’ll see just how much or how little (or how anything) Bone China was in on this ordeal. You won’t be hanging much longer!
Was Bone China right to lash back? That depends on your point of view. Some folks learn how to develop a thick skin in relationships (especially if your partner is the extremely hypersensitive type), and some folks just wont stand for that.
Whether you agree with Scapula, Bone China, both or neither is up to you.
Yeah yeah….. She just now starts babbling about how the guy with the plastic face and steel dentures might be mentally ill?
You know, I kind of liked her up until this. But suddenly I’m finding myself wanting to punch her an awful lot. I hear her whining that the paranoid guy she knows is paranoid is being paranoid. And on top of that she gets out that classic female dagger of ‘Oh, look how I tried to help you and listened to you and now you’re acting just like you always did before’.
You know what? I’m a woman. And I know that when you deal with people that are nucking futz, you expect insanity on a regular basis. You don’t assume because you listened to them gripe once or twice that they’re going to suddenly get over complaining and feeling insecure. And hell, has she paid ANY attention to what’s been happening to him in the last few days?! The poor slob has been beaten at least once that she knows of and everything he owns has been destroyed.
And she wonders why he feels victimized….. yeah, I wanna punch her. I wanna punch her real hard.
Definitely a good point: she knew what she was getting into well in advance (pretty much being aware of the fact that Scap was a criminal from the start), and she probably could have picked up a few signals of his questionable state of mind (the plastic head being a starter). Finally, she has been MIA for two days now (for those of you who have trouble with the chronology of this comic).
Saying Bone China is wrong is fine; the whole scenario pretty much leaves it up to you on who you side with, or if you think the whole situation is screwed up period. And hey, if you think the story sucks, you’re entitled to that opinion as well (but it would hurt my poor widdle feewings)!
I just hope I haven’t made Bone China as bad as Bella Swan (shudder)…
Well I didn’t say I didn’t understand her POV hun….. being called a whore is a no-no any time of the week unless you are.
But a lot of her end is lashing out with the same exact crap she’s accusing him of….. ignorance, confusion about behaviours, and lack of communication. As a million-mile winner in broken relationships (mine, however, on purpose……), I can see the problems shared here and it’s volatile, hun.
She is no more wrong than him, I just think he is the more honest and deserving of slack between the two…… he doesn’t pretend he’s anything but a rotten guy and a permanent victim that takes out his issues on everyone, himself included.
All in all, good dialogue exchange!
I would almost feel inclined to give you a guest blog series where you analyze all the screwed-up relationships in the SCAPULA series…but that would be wrong and silly!
Again, this is all about which character you personally prefer to side with. The ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ here all depends on you (but maybe everyone will have a clearer opinion when the story ends). Only one way to find out!
Mind you if you ever want me to hun…… Just saying, I have a lot of free time these days.
She’ll be back, I’m sure (or maybe not).
The story’s not over yet! We’ll find out shortly.
So was it a paranoid scenario from scapula, or is bona the “whore” that backstabbed him ? We are left with no clear answer, and a messy dispute.
Exactly. How many break-ups go smoothly when both people involved are this ultra-sensitive?
Isn’t that just the way. You catch someone doing something wrong and they have a way of turning it around and blaming you. Oh yeah. I said it. I still think she is playing him.
It’s a pretty common defense mechanism, although it could be argued that Scap himself was turning all of his own misfortunes on her. Or maybe she turned that around on him and then he turned and…I’m getting dizzy….hoo boy, the Blame Game is worse than the Disneyland Tea Cups!
I got sick on that ride.
I have to agree w/ Bearman, I sense a play being played here and some of the cards from the trick have been withheld! [ponders]
Egad…hear that? Someone AGREED with Bearman!
That’s Scott, the comic world’s Devil’s Advocate (well, he must be in some league with the horned one…).
How much sharper than a serpent’s tooth, than a boot to the gut by a woman scorned.
‘Snowball’ from Clerks: “That’s beautiful, man!”
Um. Ouch. Both in the relationship sense and between the legs sense.
Well, the boot landed in his gut (thank God for small miracles), but still…yeah, OUCH.
Wow… What an awesome play on the villain monologue… I can’t imagine a competent supervillain like Doctor Doom getting a response (and a kick in the nuts) like that!
Doom has had his own share of relationship issues, but none of them ever involved him getting a boot to the midsection!
Still, that might explain all of the armor, given that he’s really only self-conscious about his face…
I dunno, man, I hear he wears a pretty big codpiece…
Oh yeah, the self made super villain who commits robberies and wanted to open a horror wax museum is mentally ill? Who would have thought THAT!? I think she may bee just as misinformed as he is.
In any event, I feel bad for the little guy, he always gets the shit end of the stick and it would have been nice to actually see him come out on top for once. You keep mistreating him like this and the only option he ever will have is suicide.
Suicide is what happens when pain outweighs the capacity for dealing with pain.
It sort of reminds me of those situations back in school when a girl would hook up with a ‘bad boy’ and then be shocked by his abusiveness…gee, didn’t see THAT one coming!
Scapula’s opinion of suicide was discussed (with Bone China, appropriately enough); whether or not he ever gets to that breaking point is a story for another day (or whenever I feel like ending this rotten comic!). For here and now…well…we’ll see how he deals with this setback.
This was one of the predictable outcomes of this conversation, but as people above commented, it’s not like Scap was lacking reasons to be paranoid, and Bone should really have known better than to vanish for two days- but then again, they’re both nuts, you can’t really expect them to reason it out…
That being said, this has all the hallmarks of a long term love-hate rollercoaster relationship, as you can expect from such broken individuals – it’d be plausible for them to get back together at some later point, just so they can then split up violently shortly afterwards.
Thanks for commenting, Wings of Wrath! I’m actually very pleased that I have readers in Romania…maybe it’s the ‘Dracula enthusiast’ in me.
It’s odd, but I didn’t really worry too much about whether this outcome was predictable or not; a number of readers who commented saw this coming from a mile away. I don’t think shocks and surprises are always necessary to advance a story (of course, wait until we meet the Troubleshooter!), and for this one I just let the relationship go where it felt like it would have the most impact.
I completely agree with your assessment that this could end up being a long term love-hate scenario; it’s an intriguing thought. Anything’s possible!
Beautifully rendered and dialogued scene, Edgar. I mean, Aidan.
But I still think she’s behind it all. I mean, if it was me, would I really admit that I set my lover up to get her assed whupped and do an epic-fail in life? Nope, I’m a’ keep the candle of lies alit for a lot longer. I don’t care if she had photos and audio of me ordering the hit. Nope, it wasn’t me, Babe.
Therefore, I still believe she’s guilty.
I like her though.
Dirty, lowdown, rotten hoochie. 🙂
Edgar?! I’m not Edgar! Edgar’s a cartoon character! I’m real! And I don’t have a skull face or a boot in my gut!
Who’s the guilty one? It looks like all the facts have been laid out, but we’ll see what other revelations are uncovered during the end of this storyline. Maybe it will be a surprise, or maybe we’ve all seen it coming.
That, and I haven’t heard the term “hoochie” since high school (and believe me, there were plenty of ’em!).
So… um… ‘do-over’?!
If only that were true of real relationships!…and, well, any other problem in life.
Man, that was heavy! Good shit!
…the comic, or the super-deluxe burrito you’ve got there?
Paranoia is a terrible thing…to waste!
Heh, heh, heh.
Hey, there’s never a shortage of paranoia around here. None of it goes to waste!
Incredibly well executed, Aidan!
The lovers’ veil has been pulled askew rendering a more realistic view.
Isn’t that always the way? Actually the more common outcome of pulling up the lover’s veil is revealing an ugly horse-face underneath! Ahh, good ol’ Looney Tunes gags.
Poor, poor pitiful he.
Kudos on the dialogue and mood, Aidan!
Thanks, Mark! We can all enjoy the spectacle of a pitiful villain.
if annyone wants him dead right now id put my whole nickle on gemini,
either one of them
Do you think she could be the one behind this? Find out for yourself next Sunday!
Now that I think on it, she does look like a long lost cousin or half sister to Gemini (Minus the additional head and slamming badonkkadonk)
She does? Damn it, am I drawing all of the female characters the same again? Bad me.
Ugh…I hate it when cartoonists do that, and unless if you’re Frank Cho you can’t really get away with that in this day and age!
I just assumed that Scapula had a type, no problem with that. 🙂
that last scene was haunting…I have to say she is 100% behind all of this! This is all starting to make sense. Muahahaha
If that’s your guess, then let’s look behind the curtain to see if Jenn is right!….um…the curtain’s a little stuck right now, but we should be able to pull it back next Sunday!
…You know, I have a sinking feeling that her speech her is 100% true on how she felt, and at the same time she was INDEED messing up his schemes in, possibly, a way to try and better Scapula… or maybe just to be the Catwoman type of character where she does love him, but she still has to do her own thing…
The Catwoman analogy could be true…but which Catwoman are we talking about here? The Julie Newmar/Lee Merriweather/Eartha Kitt type who purrs and taunts and makes fanboys squeal, the Michelle Pfeiffer completely insane yet still hot as hell type that makes fanboys squeal, or the Anne Hathaway type that’s got Entertainment Weekly squealing louder than any fanboy?
….whewf. Sorry about all of that.
We’re getting to the end of this story, so all will be revealed very soon. And if you feel Bone China is telling the truth, well, there’s plenty of reasons to believe so.
The Adrienne Barbeau type who could make you squeal with a kiss or a kick.
BTAS FTW.
Well, hey, I figured that went without saying. Can any Batman line-up beat the likes of Kevin Conroy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Mark Hamill, Paul Williams, Richard Moll, David Warner, Roddy McDowall, Ron Perlman, and simply too many other ultra-cool people to mention?
Yeah, yeah, and I’ll give you Harley Quinn-masturbators what you want to hear: Arleen Sorkin was great, too.
We, the Harley Quinn masturbators, thank you.
Even in the cartoonish villain world there is drama!
I also like the longer two page format, it’s true it really helps it as I see your comics like an animated cartoons.
Cheers man!
If I could make every comic update double-sized I would!…I would just have to give up a few other things, like sleep and paying the rent!
But hey, until then, there’s more cartoonish villain melodrama up ahead, so be sure to stick around. Cheers to all of you!
Sleep and paying rent are over-rated!
Nice work, by the way!
Thanks for the comment, man! Who needs sleep when you look this Goth-y?
I believe that Robert Smith once said that very same thing.
He might have! Or maybe it was someone impersonating Robert Smith…
Captivating as always, great dialogue and flow.
Hey, thankya Metal Jaw Man! Glad you liked.
Sigh… I’ve been holding out for Ms. China. This week’s installment makes me happy and sad. Happy that Bone China seems to be on the up and up…. sad because Edgar screwed it up. That is, if things progress as they seem to might be… huh? kudos to you on the drama. AIL? no, just kidding.
Aww, see, folks? Bone China still has her supporters!
We’ll learn the whole story soon enough…in fact, we’re going to learn the Troubleshooter’s identity tomorrow, so maybe that will put all the pieces together!
…and then we’ll all look back on this chaotic time and laugh heartily.
Scap… you f##ked up.
He f###ked it up big time!