02/11/2014
Running a business can be murder, especially when it comes to managing your vicious underlings. Scapula’s going to need a helluva HR department to deal with these guys.
Running a business can be murder, especially when it comes to managing your vicious underlings. Scapula’s going to need a helluva HR department to deal with these guys.
Don’t know why, but for some reason all this talk of themed suits makes me imagine what Scapula-themed action figures would be like.
Mostly pretty cool.
Also, rather cheap to produce, since most of the characters could just be fitted with the same special move: “WOOBWoobwoob”.
That’s “run away”, just to be clear.
SCAPULA action figures could be awesome (yeah, that’s selling out, but guess what? I DON’T CARE! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!). I was an avid action figure collector growing up, and I know the ‘young me’ would have been thrilled to know that his characters could eventually be made into a bunch of toys.
As for that “woobwoobwooob” thing, would that be an electronic noise or one of the old ‘pull-the-string-and-it-talks” dealies?
I actually meant that they would run, like, across a flat surface, whilst making the noise. Maybe the movement would be activated by winding it up, and the noise by a tiny bag inside the figure which gets compressed by the movement.
So, like a whoopie cushion, but it makes a “WOOB” instead of a farting noise.
Ahh, gotcha. I’ll talk to the good folks over at Hasbro and see what they think of the plan.
If action figures don’t work out, there’s always toys for adults that could bear the SCAPULA brand. Hey, if the check clears it’s all good!
I keep lauding Scaupla for his newly innovative style of evil-doing, but I forget that you are truly the mastermind behind his nefarious activities. You’ve really upped the ante, Aidan, with your intricate plotting this year. I think you’re gonna do awesome!
Thankya, George! Hoo boy…I never thought of myself as the ‘true mastermind’ behind all of this.
Rest assured, folks, there will NOT be some plot twist where I insert myself in the comic as ‘God’ or the one who’s been running the show all of this time. If you want that, go read Grant Morrison comics.
On the up side, the costumes will do a lovely job of hiding the protective armor underneath, so it will encourage the enemy to waste firepower on the suit rather than wising up and aiming for possible vital points.
If I were in a gang that got assaulted by exoskeleton armored mecha monkey suit troops, there would be one place I’d be aiming: the mouth, if it opened, and the knees if not there. Joints like the sides and backs of the knees are always weaker armored simply because they have to bend. Shoulder and elbow joints are good targets too, but an immobile foe is a severely lessened threat. One might assume flexible kevlar could protect from most firearms. True, you won’t get punctured by a bullet, but the kinetic force is still dumped on you, meaning a large round like a .45 or (heaven help you) close range shotgun blast will still crack your ribs or batter your flesh to jelly. Most vests these days have hardened ceramic or metal plates in pouches to the front to help slow the round and soak impact somewhat, but a powerful enough round will always do damage. I caught a 9mm in the ribs with a plated vest as part of training, and God help me I thought I was going to die. That’s a pretty wussy round, too. So go for the joints if you’re in such a situation, or keep your joints covered if you’re in the suit!
Why, no, I haven’t sat down and plotted how to combat mechsuit armored opponents and people loaded up with kevlar. Why do you ask?
People always think that if you wear armor (whether it’s a bullet-proof vest or the traditional knight ensemble) that you are invulnerable to all harm. Well, good luck taking the impact of the attack! I’ve heard (correct me if I’m wrong) that swords in medieval days were designed more to hammer an opponent’s armor than to slice right through it. I don’t where I’m going with this, other than drawing upon what limited knowledge I have on the subject.
That’s why I have Lady Jenn to do the homework for me!
Lady Jenn seems to be the kind of person you want to stay on their good side. She certainly has insight to interpersonal interaction with a side of injury. Sounds like she’s doing better.
I was thinking Remington 870 with 3″ slugs shot at the hip joints until I read her comment.
While I always vouch for Remington (they are damn good gunsmiths), you don’t want to aim for the hip. The pelvic region is (obviously) one of the most armored in most any circumstance. It’s not difficult to add a hinged plate to the front and side in most builds, just like it’s pretty simple to armor the front of the knee. You want areas where the joint folds in on itself, like the back of the knee or the inside of the elbow, where solid armor would be obstructive. Or just use a REALLY big rifle. Armor is always losing out on the race between firepower and protection. Of course if you KNOW it’s kevlar, you’re better off using a knife anyways, with a strong stabbing motion. Kevlar is made of woven fibers and is used to dispel kinetic energy, making it less useful against edged attacks. In some cases a very small round can penetrate as well, such as high velocity .22 shots. This is why they now include solid plates for high risk situations. In a pinch, the hip is as good a target as any though, and slugs will definitely leave a mark if nothing else thanks to higher kinetic dump.
Also my (admittedly few) friends often end up on my bad side, but that’s the side that toughens them up! And yes, I’m feeling better since I got back into trying to work out, thank you for noticing!
Actually it was axes and hammers that were used against chain mail-if you could get that stuff to tear-it would do almost as much damage as the weapon. Also. priests were allowed to carry hammers (and maybe axes) but not swords. ‘Swat I’ve heard anyway.
Chain mail is a whole different beast than kevlar. Kevlar is fibers woven together to sponge up impact like bullets, but it rather poor against edges that slash the nylon fibers. Blunt trauma is reasonable (a bat works, but a lot of force is lost to kevlar), but a sharp axe would be much better. Chain mail on the other hand is metal mesh, very resistant to edged weapons but it has a low flexibility for individual links. A person wearing chain mail (other than the weight required) would be horribly vulnerable to gunfire. Rapiers were used to great effect against chain mail, piercing through coats of it in much the same way as high power .22 rounds part the hairs of a kevlar vest! The object was to pierce it, or just deliver so much trauma you pulverized what was behind it. Because metal doesn’t flex well, it proved almost worthless against firearms, which is why many armies gave up on supplying their troops with armor.
Also, most people wearing chain mail were bested by cutting their legs out from under them first. There’s a huge percent of soldiers’ skeletons found in the eras where chain mail was common that have slashes to the leg bones. An immobile enemy can be finished off at leisure, as I pointed out above!
I guess that explains the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
“What are you going to do, bleed on me?”
great comic!!!!!! wonderful inking what do you use to ink??? i hope this comic neva ends
Inking is just done in Photoshop (I was doing penciling in Sketchbook Pro but later decided to just do the whole thing in Photoshop). Back in the actual ‘paper-and-ink’ days I just used pens and markers, although these were later touched up digitally.
Maybe it’s better that he doesn’t let the Miscreants in on the plan!
…unless if he wants his plan to include a lot of farts and drunken brawls!
I want to see their performance review
It will be written with a machine gun (which is hard, but not impossible)…written in RED!
You’ve hired Flat Top as your review secretary!?
Better than his brother, Blow Top. “Whoo, gosh!”
I’d try for Angel Top out of the lot of them. Not much in the brains department, but she was kinda nice to look at. Definitely secretary material, if you don’t want actual work done.
I never knew if she was wearing a wig or not (probably, since I think she made her fortune in wigs). I also never knew what she saw in Brow Jr, other than a mutual hate for everyone.