HOUSE OF SCAPULA pt.3
You’ve probably caught on by now that this storyline is an homage/lampoon of Universal’s classic horror films, in particular House of Frankenstein (1944). There have been a bunch of other scary ‘houses’, such as House of Dracula, House of Wax, The Old Dark House, House of Usher, House of 1000 Corpses, and Full House (the latter being too scary for words).
Don’t forget that next weekend is the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco! I’ll be at Table 845, once again doing caricatures, selling prints and SCAPULA stuff, and making a scene. I hope to see you all in the Bay Area!
That was hilarous. Didn’t know that Scapula can be so cunning.
Cunning in that he knows how to outsmart an idiot!
In any case, glad you liked and very nice to meet you, Schrenner.
You watched Danger Mouse as a kid, didn’t you? I’m getting a Count Duckula vibe here …
I liked Count Duckula, but I wasn’t a fan of Dangerous Mouse, namely because the protagonist was a smug, insufferable a-hole (Penfold was kind of funny, and Baron Greenback and Stiletto were amusing villains). Whenever the theme song boasted that Danger Mouse was “the greatest superhero in the world” I wanted to shout “BULLS__T!!!”.
Count Duckula, Igor and Nanny were funny, and one of the first (rerun) cartoons on Nickelodeon I remember liking.
House of Usher. That would be one scary movie. A musical horror film in the genre of Young Frankenstein?
I actually have never read The Fall of the House of Usher (or its sequel, Return of the Revenge of the Son of the Fall of the House of Usher Part III: The Revenge of the Return), but I really should read it. I have seen the Corman version with the incredible (and, oddly enough, un-mustachioed) Vincent Price, so maybe I could parody that someday.
The musical version of Young Frankenstein is something I also should try to find; I don’t know if it would be great or garbage, but it might be worth a look.
Yup, I’ve known guys like Hypnaucula. Get ’em started on “all the girls they’ve loved before” and you start wishing for the sun to burn them away. Protip: Sterilize the ashes before disposal.
Hoo boy…is the name “Hypnaucula” going to stick? It sounds a lot like “inoculated”, which you might need to be after being in physical contact with that walking STD hostel!
In any event, wash down the ashes, salt the earth, and for God’s sake wear rubber gloves when doing so!
You gotta kinda concede the point to Igor on that one……
Hey, he knows better than to touch that which is best left untouched…
I never imagined that you could win merely by stalling Dracula. I should have known from the movie Dusk Til Dawn. 🙂 This was a good installment, A. It hade me smiling at the end.
Stalling a vampire works fine; I think there was a Tick comic where they stalled a vampire by challenging him to a game of Monopoly.
In retrospect that’s probably a lot funnier than what I did, but hey, I only get about nine or so panels to tell a story!
Dump his bones… it’s sounds pretty close to what he would have wanted…
Be careful about confusing ‘jump’ and ‘dump’, because the next time someone asks if you want to go jump on the trampoline…well…
I like the way Scap looks in the 8th panel.
Almost like a psychologist; hey, maybe he IS a mad doctor!
Panel 4 just made me laugh and laugh, until I couched and coughed and then, well, ended up like the guy in the chair! [blinks]
>uuuuuuuuugh…<
"He must have died while reading it!"
"Oh come on, if he had died he wouldn't have bothered to type the comment "uuuuuuuugh"! He'd just SAY it!"
"Well, that's what it says! "uuuuuuuuugh…"!"
what a sad story. sniff sniff. I love the “flump” panel.
I so dig the old classic horror films. There’s just a charm to those old monster movies. Sigh…
Looking forward to APE, my fiend,… I mean friend! Smiles!
Aww, getting weepy over a vampire, eh? Egad! Brig’s been reading Twilight again! Or Anne Rice.
Glad you also appreciate the classics of creature cinema, Brig, and I’ll see you at APE!
The ole get ’em to talk about sex until the sun comes up and they die trick… gets them every time!
Works on humans or vampires! The difference is that vampires will be killed by the sunlight, while people will just go on talking until you strike them with a heavy blunt instrument.
Excellent! This one had a bit of that Harvey Kurtzman era MAD feel to it!
Wow, thanks Jerry! That’s a compliment I hope to some day live up to!
Hours of Hypnausea/Dracula’s sexual exploits in minute detail? Bleccchhh! Now that’s some horror show! I agree with Jerry, this yarn could have fit in an early Mad comic just fine!
Now that you guys mention it, I really should have drawn this with a bit more flair (mainly that I should have looked more at Wally Wood’s “V-Vampires!” story in the early MAD issues). But hey, I’m still honored to have the comparison made!
Now don’t worry; Drac wont be back to bore/gross you out any more.
Good stuff! And I agree, Full House is scariest of all. And now those anorexic twins are on the loose!
Don’t feed the Olsen twins after midnight! And especially don’t get them wet, or there’ll be more of ’em!
Funny, but the story evolved a bit too fast. I mean, on one page Dracula is released, on the other page he dies.. I’d bet that next time scapula would wake up, because the story just seems to lead to nowhere.
Go watch House of Frankenstein; Dracula is literally introduced and dispatched within the first half hour before the story moves on to the rest of the monsters.
Or Monster Squad. The monsters get what, ten, twenty minutes each before being picked off by the kids? And it’s ten or twenty scattered all over the movie. (Still a good flick though!)
Monster Squad is a lot of fun, although some monsters definitely got more screen time than others. I’ve never been a huge fan of the Mummy, but even I have to admit they gave him nothing to do in that film (other than appear, hide in a closet, and then get unraveled).
Got in a little later than usual here hun, but I thought I’d at least throw in that I agree with old hunchbacked Bab…… I wouldn’t have touched that stake either!
Hey, maybe you’ll swing for one of the next monsters coming our way. Truth be told, I don’t think ANYONE would want to touch that stake without a hazmat suit!
I must be a sick-o…
You ARE a cartoonist!
Says it all, methinks!
Clever vagabond, there! (Reminds me of the old wives tale that, if a vampire is chasing you home (or was it a witch?), just hang a sieve over the keyhole of your door, and they’ll have to count the holes before they enter–giving the sun time to rise.)
Loved the turnaround on this tale. 🙂
Never heard of that, but weird caveats of folklore are always interesting to learn about. There’s a bunch of other obscure “rules” about vampires that pop up from time to time (they can’t cross running water, can’t enter a house uninvited, if they shake it more than twice they’re playing with it, etc).
That running water thing remembers me to Warioland 3, where Wario cannot walk through waterfalls while being a vampire. Now it makes sense to me, kinda.
It still doesn’t explain Wario’s explosive flatulence from those Smash Bros. games…