HOUSE OF SCAPULA pt.2
SURPRISE! WELCOME TO SCAPULACOMIC.COM!
After nearly four years of being an offshoot of my professional portfolio, SCAPULA has finally moved to its own domain (that will keep my clients away from my sick comic, and vice versa). For those of you who are kind enough to have linked this comic on your sites and blogs, please remember to change the link (and if you’re too lazy to do that, don’t worry: the old site is now a redirect link to this one!).
Sorry for not giving a head’s up: my awesome webmaster and I were planning on moving the site sometime around November, but he managed to get everything up and working much sooner. What they hey; just consider it an early Halloween treat!
Forrest Ackerman, I presume?
Ha, leave it to Hypnausea to go for the best-dressed monster role.
Once again, Forrie makes a cameo! His first appearance didn’t make much sense in retrospect (well, maybe a wee little bit: he was selling a wax museum, which is the frequent haunting ground for baddies), but I think he works a little better this time around.
…and, once again, if you’ve never seen the cover I did for Famous Monsters of Filmland, go check it out and help stroke my ego!
Bwahahaha!!!
Wie geil ist das denn?? Some handsome Vampyre you got yourself there. I am ofically rofl-ing. That promises to be so good… Can’t wait to see Hypnocula in action. XD
“Hypnocula”….hmmm…I like that!
But if anyone is going to make a dirty joke about vampires “sucking”, you just keep that potty talk to yourselves. Kids these days…
Seeing that The Vampire is being played by Hypnausea? I’m actually kinda surprised/relieved the stake wasn’t….. Somewhere else.
Well, it looks like it wasn’t anywhere pleasant to begin with. But yeah, use your imagination and it’s probably much worse.
Aren’t you proud of me for not saying ‘in his butt’? 😀
Well where it actually was must have hurt like a sonofabitch at the time of staking…
Hence his death, I suppose!
Or, make some speculation about how that stake managed to fit inside the coffin with the lid closed, but protrudes prominently when the lid is opened…
…uh…it was a collapsible stake? Consarn it, stop pointing out the story flaws!
Well, he hates to brag, but…
Took me a minute to catch that little tribute to Orson Welles in there, but nicely played! This is going to be a fun story arc!
I assume you mean the “Rose Blood” mumble, but now that I think about it Orson Welles should have made a cameo in SCAPULA by now! Maybe not in this story, necessarily (there wont be any Martian invasion), but maybe somewhere down the line.
Yes, indeed, the famous “mystery” line of Citizen Kane, uttered at the beginning of the movie by old Orson himself as the character’s dying words.
Hey everybody! ROSEBUD WAS THE SLED!
…and another great surprise is ruined. But hey, if you haven’t seen “Citizen Kane” by now, you only have yourself to blame!
What was the non literal way to understand :” You’d have to kill me first. Just have to break my head, and kick the crap out of me”. I’m trying to figure out.
“You’d have to kill me first” could be not literal. But ” Just have to break my head, and kick the crap out of me” looks like an invitation to me.
He’s setting himself to be horribly murdered without even being remotely aware of it. To him, the possibility that these two could be psychopaths who would be willing to kill him and take his prize is so unthinkable that he openly laughs at it.
Then they kill him.
Yep, that’s what you get for meddling with stuff. My wife likes to get all touchy and investigative. I prefer to watch from a distance. If 911 is needed, I’ll call them tomorrow, if I can remember their phone number.
If you see some guy getting beaten up by a couple of raggedy nutjobs, followed by a vampire appearing out of nowhere…just avoid eye contact and keep walking down the street.
Happens all the time in Oakland!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, had to get that out there. This is fantastic! I laughed so hard when he opened the coffin I couldn’t see through the tears. I knew right then who was going to play the part of the vampire.
The black and white looks good by the way hun. And Scapula with a beard actually looks kinda good!
Woo! Okay, deep breaths, everyone! Wouldn’t want you to die from laughter now!
That almost reminds me of all those “gimmick” horror films of the 50’s that had premises like “if you die from fright while watching this movie the producers will pay for your funeral” and so on (yes, they were real ploys, and yes, some idiots out there actually tried to collect).
I don’t know if I should have opened this story with something like that, but hey, if someone were to really die laughing from my comics I would just be flattered!
My favorite was the Tingler, where they actually zapped their audiences with electric shocks in the seats.
There’s an interesting story that says they tested those electric seats on another movie, The Nun’s Story (or some such film). I’m guessing the surprise was much, much higher for those filmgoers!
Well, that explains why I got the redirect message on first load – makes sense for the comic having its own domain. Good move.
And Hypnocula … I like it!
I really hope no one out there had any problems (I tested the redirect link obsessively before uploading it), but I’m still worried that some folks may have gotten lost, confused, or pissed off and started wrecking furniture.
Well, YOU found it just find, and if anyone can read this comment it means you’ve found scapulacomic.com!
Ha! Hypnocula! …. and JOY!
I love yer new digs, Dada… it makes me smile… as does the mini Dada gallery on my office walls…
I’m also happy to have finally gotten this comic to its own site (there’s only so many people who buy both my client commissions and SCAPULA stuff), so here’s hoping things will run more smoothly.
You will definitely get your Hypnausea fix next week, Brig!
Woo hooo! Hypnausea fix! Hypnausea fix! Will I need Pepto afterwards or will I be okay?
You might need a shot of penicillin…
Congrats on your new site, Aidan! Met Forrest Ackerman and got a tour of the Ackermansion several years back, what a great guy! Nice to see his cameo. Stake through the crotch? Like, owtch!! Lovin’ the story, too!
Nice! I never got to meet Forrie, but every story I’ve ever heard about him, from people I know who met him to interviews with others, says that he was a really nice guy. I would have liked to have met him, but hey, maybe there’s a place in the afterlife for folks who love old monster movies!
Whoo! Bleh!
Love this guy already.
Glad you like him! He’s sure to like you back…but that’s because he’s a suck-up.
Get it? Suck? Vampire? Eh? EHHHH?!…aw, forget it.
Love your B&W work on this. Can’t wait for the next exciting installment!
Thank you kindly and nice to meet you, Lord Binky!
I’ve often wondered how I could speak and have drippy stuff come off of my words like in panel 2!
I say try talking with a mouthful of yogurt. “Drippy” and amusing for friends to hear!
No wonder my RSS reader didn’t pick up on the change. Going to have to change that link too.
Good thing I think about you during the week or I may have left you for the abyss. Or is it to the abyss?
There’s still a lot of kinks to work out with moving the site (Project Wonderful wont even let me continue selling ad space until they “re-approve” the new site…really?), but here’s hoping things will be back to abnormal soon.
I do enjoy how, whenever someone is brought back to life, their clothes come back with them.
And it’s a good thing they magically appeared! Nothing is more embarrassing than returning to the mortal coil without any underoos!
I would have sworn I already commented on this one. O.o But then again, maybe I only rehearsed it in my little pea-brain and didn’t post it. *sigh*.
Looking forward to watching this one play out, Aidan. :`D
It happens…or maybe it was a PHANTOM COMMENT! Egad! Everything is getting Halloweeny!
The comedy expressed in Panel 4 is fantastic. That one panel alone had me cracking up. Surrounded by the rest of the comic makes it gold… I especially loved his Citizen Kane-ish last words, nice touch. Can’t wait to see the rest of the story.
Happy to hear you enjoyed, Metal Jaw Man! I can only hope I can keep everyone amused throughout the month; it would be a cryin’ shame to let you all down this Halloween season (like getting raisins in your trick-or-treat bag!).