GANGWAY pt.14
Hope you comic fans are having fun at the San Diego Comic-Con; as for me, I’m going someplace with A/C and no gigantic lines of people outside the bathroom!
In all honesty, this week’s installment is the inevitable but necessary dose of plot exposition, meant to move us from Act II into the climactic Act III. I’ve tried to give the medicine a little sugar by making the artwork look nice (very summery), and, of course, showing a little skin on our lovely lady lead.
“The Daily Requirement” was Phil Frank’s codename for The SF Chronicle in Farley. G. Gordon Khan was a character who dressed as a Mongol and waged an eternal war with commuters who refused to pay escalating bridge tolls.
You know I have always been jealous of your artwork. Now you have taken it to new heights. That newspaper page is amazing. How long did it take to do that??
With Jemini sitting there in just her undies, I’m surprised Scap can manage to keep his eyeballs inside his skull. Of course, pain and the threat of more pain can be a powerful inhibitor to even the most overactive libido.
I’m picturing Nelson from “The Simpsons” as the paperboy.
Excellent artwork this week, Aidan. (I didn’t make it to Comic Con this year, either, though I would have loved to have been there Thursday for the counter-demonstration against Phelps’ Westboro Whackos.)
You’re turning into an epic storyteller, Aidan. If I actually had a company, I would scoop you up in a heartbeat and create an instant hit. And Jemini has never looked more succulent. 🙂 I can’t wait to see what else is gonna happen in this tale. You got me hangin’ on breathlessly. Keep it up!
Oh, and great homage to ol’ Willie Fisk too! 😀
Very nice work on the newspaper indeed. Plus I do like the “feel” the color gives off, nicely done. Can’t wait to see what happens next.
I kinda liked Jemini half-naked lying on the beach. Does that make me a perv?
I didn’t know paper hurts so much…I guess it does
Nice artwork btw. Y’know the newspaper page. Is it me or does that seal (is it even a seal?) in the acquarium in the background look exactly like that gangster. If it was intentional (which it probably was) it was preety funny.
@Bearman Many thanks, sir. The newspaper took a little while, but it’s a simple effect: all the type was made on a JPG, then overlayed in Photoshop with the Multiply layer effect (and opacity turned down). In retrospect I should have used the Free Transform Warp tool to make the type match the rough contour of the paper, since it looks really flat right now…and yes, I nitpick myself to death on a daily basis.
@Hoomi Scap may be a perv, but he’s first and foremost a wuss. Right now that big owie on his arm has his undivided attention.
Either Nelson Muntz or Hank Addanac is throwing the paper (haw haw!).
I heard about the Westboro thing. It kind of made me want to start up a phony “Church of Scapula” to promote, but I’ve already got a lightning bolt waiting to be smited upon me!
@George You, and only you, would have gotten the Kingpin reference. I think Dugong also owes something to Tobias Whale, an obscure Batman villain who is basically the Kingpin with a whale theme. Comic book dorks unite!
@Roland Thank you very much, sirrah!
@montecristo Liking a half-naked woman on the beach does NOT make you a perv, depending on what you’re doing while you’re looking at the half-naked woman. If you’re just admiring the view, that’s all good.
Dugongs are open-ocean relatives of manatees, and yes indeedy, our blubbery crime-boss is modeled after one of these beasties.
Scapula, on the other hand, was probably modeled after a donkey.
I’m still not sure how to tie a tourniquet properly . I always managed to pass out long before we got that far in first aid. Perhaps that’s why I’m not a doctor. That and the whole med school = difficult part, I guess. 🙂
If God hasn’t smote Fred Phelps yet, I’m not sure there’s much you could do in jest that could put you in greater jeopardy than what Phelps has done in all seriousness.
I love the look(s) on her face(s) in that last panel. Truly devious.
@SpilledInky (so sorry I forgot to respond sooner). How many situations do you get into that require tourniquets? Today or overall? 🙂
@Hoomi This is going to come across wrong, but guys like Phelps are what cartoonists pray for…perfect story material/cannon fodder!
There is a future storyline involving one of those ‘curing gay kids’ camps, but we’ll all have to wait for that one…
@Chris She’s two-faced, all right…and they’re both wicked! Glad you liked.
Oops sorry, you were making a pun with the guy’s name. My mistake.
And btw, that half-naked woman happens to have 2 heads. But I guess that’s trivial… I mean imagine the possibilities a woman with two heads has.
2nd to last panel, …WOW! replicating a newspaper look in a comic is hard feat (IMO), you nailed it! (and your blathering to Bearman about its “flatness” is unacceptable, its done exceedingly well!) =)
@montecristo She could…do her taxes twice as fast.
@jynksie Many thanks, Scott! Since SCAPULA will never be in the newspapers, then maybe the newspapers will just have to be in SCAPULA….okay, that’s dumdum logic, but it makes me happy.
That wasn’t exactly what I had in mind but yeah…i guess….
Two things. First, I like that Nelson from The Simpsons is delivering newspapers.
Second, where was the beachfront route when I was a kid??? I delivered all my newspapers in midwest suburbia, USA. I needed this route!
@Dan I’ll tell you this: a beach route would make it so easy to just goof off and relax on the sand. The only deliveries are being sent to houseboats, and those tossed papers inevitably end up in the drink!
It’s a good life, being a California kid.
I ALMOST wanna say that two headed chick is hot. Almost.
@Slug Go ahead and say it! You’re in safe company; everyone’s a weirdo here.