12/22/2013
So we’ve jumped ahead about four months, since Scapula had formed his new gang during the summer, and we need to get ahead to the special Christmas comic and–you know what, just take my word for it. It’s four months later.
What do you know, there’s the Jemini duplicate that was caught back in the FLIGHT INTO HORROR storyline! What does Scapula have planned for her?
I don’t know what Scapula has planned, but I have a question.
Would sleeping with Jemini count as a threesome? 😀
I don’t know, but I wish I could personally find out.
I guess that’s a question that shall remain unanswered (I guess Toxsick would know, but he doesn’t look like the “kiss-and-tell” type).
Seeing scapula act competent and villian-ish, I can actually see scary the skull mask and horns could be. It be pretty easy for him to terrorize a city if he was like a standard villian.
A standard villain? Uh oh…the moment anything becomes standard fare around here is the moment I’m sunk. I’d better make something silly happen pronto!
Next week: Dadaman fights a unicorn. Maybe.
Well, this is a whole lot more plot development than we usually see in one strip at once. So, somehow, Scap has (as far as he knows) kept this scheme all together for four months without a nasty gas explosion (except for El Disgusto’s)…a frighteningly unusual development…
You gotta wonder what he’s offering Hypnausea in exchange for his “payment” to the kids, but I’m betting there’s something that perverted twist-head wants from Scap …feh, no matter, Hypnausea would stab Scap in the back just as soon as Edgar would him. Evil alliances need a bad bully to knock them all into line and ol’ Scappy just ain’t that tough. This’ll blow up in his face for sure…and that’s not even considering Jem-clone, who while not being the real thing still ain’t the sort to go along demure and meekly without plotting something. Too many shaky crevices…
Love the art. So much detail and beautiful coloring, Aidan! Keep it up!
This is definitely not an easy alliance for anyone involved, and Scapula is walking on very thin ice keeping all of these various dangerous people in his employ. As for whether or not it will blow up on him…well, we’re just going to have to wait and see how it goes.
As for those gas explosions, it could be worse: El Disgusto could start dating Moonie Meadows!
“As for those gas explosions, it could be worse: El Disgusto could start dating Moonie Meadows!”
TMI but I use the term “Chernobyl Cheeks” to describe gasiness. So now I tell my friends that I had yellow cake for dinner. TMI? Maybe…
God, the backgrounds and perspective. I wish I were that good.
Aww, don’t sweat it. I cheat a lot when it comes to backgrounds (namely that first panel), and even though there are numerous drawing programs now that will chart out perspective for you, I still prefer to just ‘eyeball’ it.
As long as you know where the scene is taking place and your perspective doesn’t make it look like ypu’re wandering the Winchester Mansion on LSD, you don’t need perfect perspective. Take that, Brunelleschi!
As a dungeons and dragons player, this is what we call a ‘chaotic evil’ arrangement. As any D and D player knows these last about as long as it takes for whoever is ‘strongest’ to appear weak for any length of time, then the whole thing comes apart.
On the upside, in four months these kids could learn all sorts of wonderful things about working as a team, staying in shape, and shanking the idiot who wants to lead them when he goofs up. Oh yeah, never screw with the paymaster, no matter what the pay may be. Soldiers will always side with the paymaster over their leader in a ratio of about 95-to-5 percent, unless they have religion or patriotism on their side. Then they’ll side with the paymaster, God or Country, and the leader in about 60-35-5!
Who will these kids side with? The punks barking orders? The fop who dishes out the drugs (and who-knows-what-else)? Or the mean lookin’ feller with the skull face who manipulates them into fighting who he wants to fight? We’ll see if they get smarter when they grow up (or IF they grow up).
Is it me? or is Hypnausia looking a bit like Cher? …with a few more feathers and a microphone… dead ringer…
Every time I see Cher in a movie or on TV, I end up saying, “Hey Cher, why the long face?”. It was funny the first couple of times, but now my girlfriend wont let me watch anything with her anymore!
Holy…..! He DOES look like Cher!
That’s creepy.
What a bunch of gypsies, tramps and thieves! There’s a storm a-comin’ and it probably should have been flushed first! Great job on the art and color, Aidan!
Diarrhea is like a storm raging inside you…waitaminnit, you can’t talk about diarrhea unless if Babirus is around!
Diarrhea is a storm raging OUTSIDE OF you.
So Storm from the X-Men has diarrhea?
Yeesh, wouldn’t THAT be awful? Even the Dark Phoenix couldn’t reach that level of horror!
I bet ol’ Ororo could provide a pretty decent golden shower that you wouldn’t believe. I’ll ask Forge next time I see him.
I’m with the Sentinels now, mutants must be wiped out (or just properly wiped)!
I would never have guessed Cindy’s secret identity. Scapula is good. 🙂 I like how he kinda/sorta knows what he’s doing this time. It makes me wonder if anyone smarter is actually pulling HIS strings. Or, at least, Cyrano-ing him. Hmm…
Check his hands for any sock puppets!