SINISTER MONSTER DOOM LEGION pt.18
Welcome back, fellow creeps, and welcome new readers to the New Year of SCAPULA! We’re kicking things off with a little old-school destruction, here in Civic Center, San Francisco…that’ll teach ’em to keep the streets clean!
It should be pretty obvious from this page that I’m a huge fan of monster movies, in particular the giant monster films from Japan (“kaiju eiga” to the Japanese or those trendy liberals pretending to be anything but white). I used to be a pretty obsessive fan of the Godzilla series and Ultra Q, collecting a ton of toys, models, bootleg videos, and other pleasantly distracting wastes of cash. While those days are long gone, I still have a lot of fun memories of the Toho critters and their city-smashing shenanigans (give me a “Hell Yeah!” if you love Rodan!).
Eiji Tsuburaya, the grand-daddy of Japanese monsters and special effects (tokusatsu, again for the Nihonjin and wannabes), makes a cameo in panel 4.
Finally, a giant, mechanized robot of doom that remembers its manners!
Happy New Year, D.H.! 🙂
Will the protruberances on the back all light up right before the mouth-mounted weapon fires?
No offense or anything but don’t you think it’s high time you ended this story? Hurry up and kill them all so we can move on to the next one.
@SpilledInky …and if it had a [gigantic] cup of tea, you bet that pinky finger would be up! Happy New Year, Rob!
@Hoomi That would be STEALING, you know…and if there’s one thing the Sinister Monster Doom Legion doesn’t stand for, it’s STEALING!
@montecristo Hell no! We got a giant monster rampage going, and you want to stop the party? Oy! Just get a drink at the bar and wait for the next song to start.
Is that a Mona Lisa in a window in the bottom panel of doom? Hee hee… and I love old Monster movies… There was that one … Monster Island where all the monsters battle it out… fire-breathing, spike-wielding monsters kickin’ the *&#@ out of each other… now that’s entertainment!
What a way to wreak some havoc. That is primarily why I refuse to work on tall telephone lines, just in case something like that happens.
Hey, thanks for including my piece on your Guest Art section! 🙂
@squidrowmommy Mona Lisa? Hmmm…let’s seee…Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa…maybe that woman in the window? Not sure if it’s Mona Lisa, although it could be one of San Francisco’s many Mona Lisa impersonators!
The Godzilla movie you might be referring to is “Godzilla’s Revenge”, which takes place entirely on Monster Island…inside of the mind of a crazy little boy. No joke!
@George I think my father worked on telephone lines and routinely fell off of them. Smart man, that guy…
Thank you for sending in the work! Remember folks, send in those guest art pieces and see them proudly displayed!
Oooh very nice…! I spot the flame-thrower in the beast’s mouth. It is a flame thrower rite? =)
Why isn’t there a translation of all that japanese?????
@spearr Mmmmaybe it shoots flames…and mmmmaybe it dispenses candy? Time will tell, my eager friend!
Truth be told, I’ve already forgotten what the Japanese means; I just typed in some stuff into an on-line translator but didn’t bother to remember what I was writing. Oh well. Maybe it’s a recipe for marshmallow cookies.
Well at least the monster of doom is polite about it.
I hope those people appreciated that polite warning they were given before being destroyed!
You know property taxes will have to go up in order to clean the mess this mechanical beast makes, right?!? Criminals always make a mess and expect us to clean up after them! #NoF’nManners
Skittles would be awesome. Just sayin’.
Is that steam coming out of his nostrils? Where do you top up the water? Will he even stand still long enough to fill the water tank? The guy in the bottom right of the last panel with glasses & tongue hanging out really looks like he’s going for that woman’s huge boobs
@Binky Nice to meetcha! And, yes, just because you’re going to smash a city and kill a lot of people doesn’t mean you can’t have any manners.
@Howie Any sort of politeness in Civic Center, San Francisco is definitely out of the ordinary. Funny how it takes a giant killer robot to be the first one to ever say, “Thank you” in that part of town!
@jynksie Saaaay…I never thought of that. Darkevilhelldeath-Man’s scheme works in several different layers, huh? Sneaky bastard!
@Chris W Hey, you can’t go wrong with juice-flavored dried pork candies.
@Tony Very insightful observations. The boiling water is put in through the monster’s schnozz; this allows it to make tea as its rampaging.
…and, yes, even in times of crisis, perverts have their priorities!
Wow look at all this love. Who you been with while I have been gone?/haha
@Bearman Dude, I’ve TOTALLY been cheating on you.
HA! That is over the top hilarious. RUN!!!!!! Excellent panel usage, fantastic art.
Great concept, great art, fun story! I love the detail in this one; the care you take to have individuals running screaming with terror and each one is screaming something different. Add the Japanese script, and of course the monster of doom itself, among other things. Awe inspiring!
@MJ Nice to meetcha! Glad you enjoy the wanton violence and mass destruction…and here I was starting to think that folks just didn’t care for that sort of thing no more (….sob!).
@Jande Thank you very kindly. It took a while, and the light dialogue on this page makes the overall “read-time” a lot faster than most of the other strips, but nevertheless this page (especially the last panel) took a long time to do. And, as the bulls___tty old showmen always say, “you haven’t seen anything yet…!”.
Don’t I got da nicest readers?