09/01/2013
Sooooo….if there’s anyone out there actually at Burning Man who wants to let me know what this year’s “Man” looks like, feel free to send me a photo and I’ll possibly update this comic. Those in the know will have realized that I was working from photo reference of last year’s event (I draw these comics several months in advance, and couldn’t find any pictures for this year).
For those of you who don’t care about that sort of thing, just enjoy today’s dose of carnage and cartoon mayhem!
OK, I was TOTALLY not expecting you to kill off Babirus! Well played left field there, sir!
Also, I am absolutely LOVING the color work you’ve done on this page. It must have taken you stupid-long to do, but good gravy, was your time and effort ever worth it! Thanks!
It would be sad if Babirus was dead…but it would be even sadder if it pulled through!
Glad to hear that you enjoyed the color work! Actually, one of the things I wanted to change with the 2013 comics was to spend less time on the digital painting and work more on the drawings, but every once in a while I indulge in some color fun. Must be the kindy-gard’ner in me.
Well. I wasn’t expecting that. The part about Babirus, that is. Poor little deformed sewer man! I did quite enjoy reading all the sound effects out loud for this one.
You got a point there; this comic (hell, probably all of them) work a lot better when you read them out loud and do all the voices and sound effects.
That may or may not be true, but at least you can amuse everyone around you by doing it (or maybe they’ll just be very concerned over your state of mental health).
….scapula has reverse a-team shooting abilities: he hits everything he is not supposed to, also i wonder what she took O_o to see a man dressed as a skeleton to appear as a monkey she got her hands on some quality stuff!
That’s an answer that only an expert psychologist working with an expert drug analyst (toxicologist, maybe?) would be able to figure out. As for Moonie, she’s just happy to shock the monkey!
Ooeeeh and now we are ‘digging in the dirt’ for ‘more than this’ aweful referance to an amazing artist that lives beyond Scap’s ‘sky blue’ in the ‘secret world’. Guess I should have said ‘here comes the flood’ of lame puns from me. Please don’t chase me with a ‘sledgehammer’ 😐
Lame humor from me aside, I love this page, the colours, drawings, the vvvvvrrrrrrrrrrr showing how the plane is crashing. But I am kind of worried about Babirus, though these guys have survived worse. The others survived jumping out of the plane. So he should be capable of taking a headshot and survive a little deadly crash right? Right? RIGHT?
Hey, c’mon, my puns may be stupid, but there is much worse. Every single CGI animated movie that comes out these days is always (read: ALWAYS) given a tagline in the form of a really weak pun (“The wait is ogre”, “Get ready for panda-monium”, “Bat to the bone”, and the crowning champion for worst ever, “The best things come in bears”). My own dumb ramblings sound like fine poetry compared to that crap!
But anyway, thank you for the kind compliments on the art, and we shall find out the fate of Babirus soon enough; for here and now let’s just see how the rest of the Sinister Monster Doom Legion get out of this mess!
Now that you mention it. There is the awesome movie Rubber about a killer tire who kills people and blows up stuff.
Rubber
Are you ‘tired’ of the expected?
BABIRUS! NOOOOOO!
He never even got to make a single poopoo gag in this adventure.
Well, there goes the exit strategy….. Alas poor Babirus, we knew your smell all too well. I knew he should have just pulled the trigger…… but then again, what kind of villain doesn’t go for a bit of monologue, right?
Now for those of you with weak stomachs, I will skip over the actual results of catching a 7.62 slug to the temple, especially one that’s been deformed by ricochets. Suffice to say today’s survival tip is simple: Do Not Shoot Your Pilot. It’s very bad for their health and renders your vehicle pretty useless or, as in this case, on fire and mangled. It also makes for a heck of a mess. Haven’t caught one of these bad boys, but I’ve seen the damage a gun that size does. Trust me, you DON’T want to see the pictures I’ve seen.
On a more personal note, panel 2: going down in history as one of the most surreal things I have ever laid eyes on! High Holy Heaven, all I was able to do was stare at that for about 3 minutes trying to process what I was looking at! Excellent job hun!
Take note that Scapula’s intended monologue was cut off by his own impatience. If only that could happen with more villains…
You’re advice on not shooting the pilot is probably the best you’ve ever given (or at least the one I think I can remember to follow), but hey, at least Scapula wasn’t IN the helicopter when he did it!
As for the monkey…yeah, that’s just some weird crap I made up. Terry Gilliam was right, you never need acid when you’re a cartoonist!
Hah! Moonie’s trippin’ gives Scap another butt whippin’ and it’s “Coises, foiled again,” The gang’s prolly gonna wind up as the stars of the festival.
That would be a really sweet ending: the Burning Man kiddies welcome them just as the Whos in Whoville welcomed the Grinch. And Scapula, yes, ol’ Scapula himself, got to carve the roast beast (which could be Babirus).
Don’t worry about Babirus. He’s just stunned. Really. All those generations of inbreeding have made the disfigured little bastard able to bounce back from anything – kinda like Deadpool, except stupider, filthier, and minus the fourth-wall breakage.
Will Babirus live? The only way to find out is to keep reading this story; the Battle at Burning Man isn’t over yet, folks!
I suppose it’s possible to survive a rifle round to the head, and we’re not sure just HOW deformed he is. Still it’s an awful bad wound if nothing else. And oh yeah, the crash ain’t gonna make the poor slob any prettier!………….. but the fire might make him smell less.
He’s been through worse than this (we never did learn how Babirus, Scapula, Zodi Jr, and Dr. Jeraukov managed to get out of the Behemoth before it sank into the bay), so there’s a chance he’ll survive this one.
Maybe.
Assuming those helicopter earphones aren’t thick enough to stop a bullet, I can’t say I’m going to miss Babirus. But that’s just me.
However, I’m sure the hippies are going to LOVE the ensuing helicopter explosion. And I hate hippies. Anything that makes them feel joy is a tragedy.
How can someone hate both Babirus and dirty hippies?…well, unless if you’re a fan of bathing more than once a year and not having parasite-infested dreadlocks. I can see where the line might be drawn.
Simple. I hate everything! Except kittens. Kittens are adorable. Cats are assholes.
Life is so much simpler when you despise everything by default.
“I don’t discriminate, I hate everyone equally.”
I see we’ve taken “love hurts” to a whole new level here! [smirk]
Love hurts like a bullet in the head of a sewer cannibal…hey, that could have been a ‘one-hit wonder’ song back in the 80’s!
I do wonder, Whatever happened to the rest of Babirus’ family? Shouldn’t they be informed of his untimely (unless you believe in the saying “better late than never”) demise?
Babirus’ family has only appeared once, since I never really found much use for them other than as a one-time joke/homage to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I tend to drop a lot of characters I don’t have much use for, but if I ever thought of a good story (or even a quick cameo) for them I could possibly bring them back.
For here and now, just assume that they’re still living in a sewer, waiting for Babirus to get back from his ‘quick trip to the surface world’.
The monkey panel was hilarious!!
Monkeys make EVERYTHING hilarious!
You got the Man base correct, that was this year with the saucer thingy.
Well, at least one thing went right!
“Hah! You missed my vital areas!.”
A comeback that should be used in any number of super-violent Warner Bros or MGM cartoons!
Eh, I’m sure Babirus is fine. His brain is probably actually in his back. And, um, he fell out of the helicopter. No pilot, it crashes. Also, he, uh, fell onto a crowd of people. And the people were made of knives and sharpened candy canes. Er, I mean, marshmallows.
He landed right on top of an inflatable ‘jump-castle’ (they always have those out in the desert), and bounced off safely onto a mountain of pillows, where he comfortably landed and took a nap.
It could happen!
Nooo! Not Barbirus!!! I wasn’t prepared for that, but I guess that’s just how death is: unannounced.
Maybe he’s not dead? In the words of my favorite character from DC’sThriller: “Only flesh-wounds! Only out-patient!! I wouldn’t kill a fly, so don’t ask me”.
Yeah, I took it there, homie. Thriller. Trevor Von Eeden’s finest work.
Haven’t read that one (yeah, I’m a Marvel zombie, so shoot me), but I’ll keep an eye out for it. ‘Thriller’, of course, just makes me think of Jacko and actual zombies and Vincent Price scaring the hell out of everyone with his maniacal laugh!