02/09/2014
For the unacquainted: The two-headed woman seen here is Jemini, Scapula’s greatest rival and unrequited love interest…or rather it’s her duplicate. Jemini funded a duplication operation in the SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLES FEATURE storyline, eventually using her new business to create multiple copies of herself.
Jemini began sending out her duplicates to run her gangs across the nation; one such traveling duplicate, however, had her plane hijacked by her gangland rivals (this occurred in the FLIGHT INTO HORROR story) which lead to her being kidnapped by Scapula. Scapula’s ally Hypnausea brainwashed the captive Jemini duplicate into believing she was Scapula’s lover, resulting in the happy couple you see before you.
Got all that? No? Don’t worry, I get confused myself, and I’m the guy who wrote it!
Hah. You know, considering how shitty she has treated Scapula, especially after demanding help from him and stuff in the past, this suits me just fine.
.. Are those fish sticks?
I had meant for them to be chicken wings, but didn’t feel like drawing the bone parts. They do look like fishsticks, or lumpia, or little churros, or cat poo.
“Good living is the best revenge” is a favorite quote, although this scenario does put a whole new spin on it. Imagine how much happier you would be if you could brainwash your enemies into being your friends/lovers?
…hmm. Actually, I guess that depends. Could you convince your “friends” to jump off a cliff for you?
Frankenstein fighting a dinosaur?
Oh. That one.
I would offer a “No-Prize” to the first person who could name that film, but honestly, if you haven’t seen Frankenstein Conquers the World by now there just may not be any hope for you!
It’s a pretty good flick all in all. I have a set that includes the original, the more violent american version, and even includes the ditched ‘giant octopus’ scenes. It cost me an arm and a frigging leg but it’s very entertaining watching!
A lot of those ‘Tokyo Shock’ DVDs have been increasingly hard to find (and expensive), meaning it’s almost as bad as it was back in the old ‘convention bootleg’ days.
…and I foolishly procrastinated on buying an actual release of Matango and Space Amoeba…stupid me.
Oooh, ouch. Your collection is missing some very good things! Well, very bad but….. you know what I mean!
There’s always the old VHS bootlegs (man, those take me back…).
Sounds like an outstanding evening plan. Until the baby wakes up, that is…..
Dun. DUN. DUUUUUNNNNNNN!
Baby? BABY?! Wow, either Scap and Jem adopted an infant or they just work very, very, VERY fast (like, against the laws of Nature fast).
Well, in all fairness, there is much in the Scapula universe that doesn’t exactly…. comply with what we consider the natural order of things.
Today’s comic alone would make the actual known universe implode (God later screams, “I leave you kids alone for five minutes and THIS happens!”).
This couldn’t go wrong in any way.
Nope, nope, nope.
Just another Saturday nite at the wax museum… And my! What a big kitchen they have!
They’re upstairs from the wax museum, in case if anyone is wondering (maybe I should have made that clearer). As for the kitchen, drawing a spacious room is a lot easier than a cramped little one, even if a lot of use have kitchens more like that!
“…like something is…”
…going to go terribly wrong once those pills run out?
Scapula better get himself a cartoon mallet in case if the pills stop doing the trick!
This is a lot more domestic of a scene than I would have expected.
And then it turns out it’s all Scapula ever wanted.
Well, that and to be rich.
And to crush all who oppose him.
And a hug.
Isn’t that all any man really needs? Maybe you can make do without the riches (although if Scapula actually paid his property tax it probably wouldn’t be cheap), and he’s crushing a few insignificant foes at a time, but it looks like he’s got himself a nice little home here.
“All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.” Ashleigh Brilliant
Well said! All that, and maybe some nice coffee.
I find Jemini’s expressions in the second last panel to be familiar. I think I’ve seen those on oh…… EVERY housewife ever when their hubby strolls in an thinks they’ve earned themself a break. Oh yeah, it’s called ‘not being convinced’. Glad I’ve never been married because I’d have had a heck of a time trying to pretend I did anything deserving of a break…… Though my live-in human pets were usually eager to see me (or full of dread, whichever…..). I miss those days.
I do admit, though, few things are as nice as coming home to a freshly cooked meal and some choice companionship. My best evenings ever have been the ones I came home and found my son there with dinner made, a Hercule Poirot or Godzilla flick on the tv, a couple bottles of Jack Daniels on hand and the contents of one of our gun cabinets laid out for cleaning and calibrating.
Crap, now I’m homesick!
I think she’s just being patient; the Jemini seen here may have been brainwashed, but not so much that she’s a hopeless ‘love potion’ zombie. We’ll learn more about that later.
I do have to admit that’s a pretty sweet description of your home life, and I am fortunate enough to have a girlfriend who loves cooking (gawd, what was I eating before she came along?). It also looks like the Scapula household benefits from having monster movies on all the time.
Yeah, I had things pretty good. I mean, with Dad it’s some primo ‘shine, shotguns, and whatever wildlife we managed to blast or snare roasting over an open fire (mmmm…. squirrel stew!), with Mom it was take out and long nights of watching horror flicks or kaiju movies alone or with some of my irritating siblings. When I adopted Jack, my quality of life suddenly took a huge upswing! It’s amazing how tasty things are when you don’t get them out of a box or have to gut them yourself!
Ah, gun cleaning night! What fun! Just be careful with GUN SCRUBBER. That stuff is evil! Toxsick would love it, though.
What.. the… This is so.. so NORMAL for Scapula! I’m just wondering what disaster is going to happen. At least when it inevitably does, he can look back upon moments like this and think, “Once, I had it all– successful job, a two-headed lady at home, a full belly, and monster movies a’plenty.”
Was anyone expecting something creepy or kinky (or both)? Admittedly that would have made sense for an icky supervillain, and while this scenario isn’t exactly squeaky clean (I’m surprised no one is complaining about it…yet), it’s a lot more tame than I’m sure some readers were expecting.
…for now.
I think our observant Miss Frost has nailed it pretty well. This is definitely one of those moments Scapula will look back on and lament losing and it’s very well added. I personally was expecting a little more ‘fifties’ in his home life. Given he’s a control freak, the only other option would be crazy freaky kink like I prefer, and we already have Hypnausea for that! If he was going to go all creep show, he wouldn’t bother making her ‘love’ him, I think. Terror’s so much more fun when it’s genuine!
Not that I would know, of course. *shifty eyes*
Keep taking the meds works in many situations
Maybe pharmacies can pay me to license the SCAPULA characters for advertise medications. Hey, if they can make Flintstones vitamins then they can sure make Scapula Prozac!
Just promise me you’ll never put out Toxsick as any kind of medication other than maybe an emetic. Or suicide capsule. The idea of a Toxsick-themed ulcer med worries me. “With one dose of Toxsick, you’ll never feel pain again! EVER!”
You could totally do a Babirus themed constipation aid though. That’s just truth in advertising.
Hypnausea’s likeness could work on a line of contraceptives.
Whoo! Just saw a link to your comic on Danielle Corsetto’s Girls With Slingshots page!
Also, is it just me or does Jemini seem to be humoring him in a wifely way?
GWS is one of the few sites on Project Wonderful that actually gets me traffic, so I try to post there when I have some extra ad revenue (it ain’t cheap, and earning money on Project Wonderful takes a while).
Jemini is definitely humoring him. Even in brainwashed mode she still can’t take that “manly feeling” line seriously!
Mmmmm…that rump roast of hers looks a lot tastier than those wingettes. 🙂
Perhaps Scap will have seconds?
so she’s scapula’s women and she has two heads its kinda like he has two women all in one body you sly dawg scapula he can land 2 girls and i cant great comic!!! keep it up
Who can argue with that?
he watches monster movies alot right???
Hell yeah! Every good creep has a treasure trove of monster movies.
This is both so weird and so heartwarmingly sweetly cute for them. Its kinda what they just needed all along; to have some chill and open caring from/to give another person besides themselves and just let go of their bitterness.
I think a lot of readers at the time felt the same way (see the comments above…we used to have some really interesting conversations around here!), but even back then a lot of people knew this good life would be brief.
…and, believe it or not, THIS EXACT PAGE is going to be referenced in the final book. No kidding!