BONE CHINA pt.1
Pull up a comfy chair, grab yourself some snackies and get ready for another epic storyline!…and no refunds, because you didn’t pay anything to be here. But don’t take it from me, listen to this guy:
Sez it all, methinks!
Pull up a comfy chair, grab yourself some snackies and get ready for another epic storyline!…and no refunds, because you didn’t pay anything to be here. But don’t take it from me, listen to this guy:
Sez it all, methinks!
I… thought that was a theater at first.
Future storyline: Scap comes into possession of a theater and puts on a big show to raise a million dollars by midnight. Because, um, after midnight, all the money, um, turns back into pumpkins? Or maybe it’s the theater that does that. I dunno.
No, no, no, after midnight the Muppets lose the theater to the big rich oil magnate…woops! FOX NEWS just accused me of being a communist!
Scapula’s version of The Muppet Show would be…well, I can’t even imagine what he would do.
Good gods. Scapula’s earned himself a level and invested all those new skill points in his competence stat!
Also, “game meat deli.” I’ve seen a few places like that, but never in the city.
I haven’t played an RPG in a long, long, long time so that took me a minute. Hey, would anyone out there play a SCAPULA RPG? It would be a pretty simple game: the only items you collect are coffee and cigarettes (they actually lower your HP, but who cares) and any enemy kills you with one hit. Loads of fun!
So it’s back to nintendo era? Count me in!
Nintendo? Heck, let’s go waaaaaaay back…to Scapula Pong!
Boop!…boop!….boop!
I would TOTALLY play Scapula pong….. big boots for paddles, Scapula for the ball? Hehehehehehe.
Seriously, tabletop gamers I know love Scap, and I know one has a villain based off him (his only power is he never dies….. no matter how much he wants to).
1. Why was MY cartoon not included in your guest montage…what’s up with that BS?
2. How did you get Alice Cooper to guest host your video as you?
3. Your mom called and wants her eyeliner back.
4. There better not be a scene in this next story line of Scap “waxing off”
1. Ash didn’t get her cartoon in there either, and she took it like a man!…no, actually she hit be with a beer bottle, called me a bunch of emasculating obscenities and threw me on the concrete. Cartoonists are a testy lot.
2. I just ripped him off, like any of the several hundred performers who steal from him but never acknowledge it.
3. I wear more make-up than any of the women in my family.
4. Ralph Macchio will find you and hurt you for that one!
You can make it up to me by including a wax figure of Bearman. The villain who was so inept he couldn’t even make Scapula’s Gang.
There’s nothing to brag about being inducted into Scapula’s ‘clique’; you either end up bitter and jaded or, in the case of Zodi Jr and the Halloween Gang, stone dead.
Hanging out with the other kids doesn’t sound so bad anymore, eh?
This is as good a time as any to ask — how come Scapula doesn’t sport actual horns any longer?
There’s several reasons, the main one being that they’re a pain to draw and they clutter panel compositions. Cropping out part of a character’s head, even something like those horns, is a composition no-no unless if you’re doing an extreme close-up, and the less extreme close-ups of Scapula we have the better.
Scap’s new talent for disguise and a wax museum? This sounds promising.
Loads of promises! It’s nice to expand and take the characters to new levels of insanity.
Forrest Ackerman reference? If so he was one of the great supporters of horror media. Spiffy video.
Yes, indeed, that’s Forrie! Okay, it’s a cartoon likeness of our dearly departed Dr. Ackula, but the character needed a face and I just figured, “Hey, Ackerman will do. I mean, the world has enough Hitchcock cameos.”
Well thank you very much, muchacho, I managed to get kicked out of the First Church of What’s Happening Now by following your furshlugginer advice about turning up the volume. I must have been stunned by the fact that Scappie pulled off a successful heist and just did what you said.
I should have done a ‘secret word’, a la Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. “Hey kids! Today’s secret word is @#$%! And when you hear the secret word, SCREAM REAL LOUD! Ready? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!”
That would have gotten you thrown out of church in record time.
Scap’s gradually getting better at his job, but he’s still a long, long way from being the villain he wants to be; we’ll have to wait and see what happens next!
Hey, is that guy in that florrid shirt Forrest Somebuyorother from that ancient monster mag from the mid 1900’s? If Vincient Price shows up in that building I think things will start to wax drippingly along. I don’t suppose that Gravano’s has anything to do with drawing …… never mind, that couldn’t possibly be have anything to do with ……hmmmmm.
Once again, the late Forrest J. Ackerman. I was actually commissioned to do a caricature of him by ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’, which was a load of fun.
For Vincent Price homages, listen to the first minute or two of me on my interview with TGT Webcomics…before I start screaming and blowing out computer speakers.
Is Gravano’s some sort of Sweeney Todd deal? We shall find out soon enough.
Well this looks promising.
So did those Star Wars prequels, but we all remember how that turned out.
Next week: Scapula gets cut in half by a whiny Jedi.
Oh, when I say promising I mean that this is going to lead to mayhem, chaos, perversion, big guns, bigger boobies, and Scap suffering more groin trauma.
Maybe we’ll even see a battle to the death between Dadaman and DEHD-man.
Or the return of Inverto! 😀
I wouldn’t get my hopes up on any of those guys showing up, but there should be a good dose of trauma in the near future. Maybe even some chaos and perversion, if we’re lucky!
Chaotic perversion and perverted chaos?? And it’s not even my birthday! 😀
Strip joint?
That would imply women actually working with Scapula (a long shot, at best)…unless if it’s a male strip joint. If so, maybe Hypnausea will help out!
*gag*
Ooo, Scapula and a Wax Museum! I love wax museums, even if they are terrifyingly creepy. I’m SO looking forward to this.
I’m also happy to see Hypnausea get some strip time here too. He hasn’t been around much lately.
I liked the little video you did. I’m interested to see more.
BTW, you’re cute. 🙂
Hypnausea has been MIA since the Sinister Monster Doom Legion story arc, and we wont be seeing much of him again for a while. But hey, sometimes you can make the most out of a quick cameo. I think the more we learn of his pleasures the more grateful we should be that he doesn’t pop up often.
Tee hee! I is a cutie-pie! Thank you kindly, I try to doll myself up for public appearances.
The short film was a neat idea… thanks for the shout out! Now I can say something I’ve done was used in a montage… and it didn’t involve anything taxing like training for a boxing match. The make-up/eyeliner is very Alice Cooper!
It’ll be neat to see how the wax museum fits into the storyline.
It’s nice to perform, and while I don’t have the training, persistence or panache to be a live entertainer I still really enjoyed doing this. There will be another video down the line, but I don’t know when (that will give your ears time to heal).
“We’re gonna need a montage! Montage! Even Rocky had a montage!”
LMAO @ “Gutter Glitter” never heard that term before, awesome!
Definitely keep doing the videos!!
I forget where I heard the term “gutter glitter”, and I was even a little worried that some first-time readers would think that was Hypnausea’s name. Oh well; it’s an apt description!
oh finally some great art. This changes from the guest cartoons.
I love the expression of each character, the light on the faces, the way scapula is running in first pic … This is genuine action, not BS !
No below average joke here, with a girl that ends in the breast of a women.
What a relief.
Oh and the video sucks, because you look creepy , and there’s a fart in it. Cheers.
Hear that? There’s three billy goats crossing up on the bridge…
Great comic, and I have to say I love your video blog! Definitely takes guts to put yourself out there not only in the form of comics but also videos! Keep it up!
Thanks, Jenn! It’s really no big deal to let people know who’s behind the comic sometimes (although the comic does take top priority…you’ll be seeing more Scapula stories before you see “The Aidan Casserly Show”).
i see a bright future for scap…that will somhow all come crashing down in the most spectacular way 😀
Hey, on the BEST failures for this comic!
Hey! Now scapula can make his own line of scented bathroom candles!
I’m sure that scratches showing up on a ‘People of Walmart’ site off his list of fears!
🙂
I think I may have remarked before how badly most of these supervillains probably smell. With Scapula, you get the tasty aroma of coffee, cigarettes and B.O. You never know when THAT scent will be nice to have wafting through your home!
Doooooood… yer either compensating for two black eyes, or you’re the bastard child of Alice Cooper! You have a commanding voice master!
As for the Wax Museum, I’m just glad Scap didn’t buy it in Brazil! [wink] [pauses and watches NO ONE get THAT!]
Ha! Thank you, Scott. I could use my voice more effectively if I hadn’t used so many “uh’s” and “um’s”. Good to know that required semester of public speaking did so much for me!
“Braaaaaaziiiiilllll….where hearts were something-something-hmmmm….”
Love the spookshow… Yes, word of the video would be great… Or “this video was brought to you by the letter H… For Hypnausia who is awesome, People! Thanks for including him… I love him so. And am I sensing a little Vinnie homage coming up? Oh … And I want more video blog! Do it!
Will this storyline be taking the ‘House of Wax’ route? And if so, will it be the Lionel Atwill version, the Vincent Price version…or the Paris Hilton version?!! The horror, the horror!
Again, glad you appreciated Hypnausea, although we wont be seeing much of Scap’s usual cronies in this story.
Nice Forrest Ackerman tribute. I’ll never forget my tour of the Ackermansion. Mr. A gave a friend and I a personal tour and made us wait at the top of the stairs while he went down to check on something in the basement. He stumbled back out with a giant tentacle from one of those 60s B-movies wrapped around his neck! Such a great guy and funny, too. And oh what delicious mayhem will transpire in that wax museum!
By every account I’ve heard he was a great guy. I recently went out with a woman who had actually once filmed an interview with him at the Ackermansion; she said he was really nice and funny. I wish I could have had the chance to meet him.
…but hey, there’s always Bob Burns, but knowing my habit for procrastination I’m never going to get around to visiting ‘Bob’s Basement’ for, oh, twenty years or so.
What a great hideout. Why a villain could get into all kinds of trouble in there.
I love Candy and Gutter Glitter too.
Isn’t it a swell pad? Maybe some day he’ll invite us all over for beer and nachos!
Regarding “Candy” and “Gutter Glitter”, this is what I was worried about: I seldom use nicknames for the characters, since most first-time readers will think those are their actual names. I don’t blame people for mistaking the names, since there’s roughly ten million characters in SCAPULA by now!
FYI: “Gutter Glitter” is Hypnausea. “Candy” is Jammie, one of his kiss-up child lovers/lackeys.
I am STILL so confused as to how Hypnausea has not just goons, but devoted followers. Pure freak magnetism?!
I think it’s just charisma. I’ve always been surprised just how popular a complete a-hole can be (as anyone who’s ever gone to school has learned), but I guess having a truckload of confidence really does win people over.
Then again, keep in mind that Hypnausea’s “devoted followers” are only two underage groupies…and that’s it. Heck, Throgor has more friends than that!
The more i see of Hypnausea, the more I like him. He’s starting to get a deeper personality which makes all of his hang-ups and wilde sides more interesting to me.
Great video. it’s strange, but you look sorta like your drawing style. 🙂 And, like Bearman, you could be just as big a celebrity as the comics you draw. You’ve got that “OOMPH!”
I’m trying to foretell all of the possibilities of Scap having a Wax Museum (or is the other place his?)
I noticed you typed ‘wilde’…was that a typo or a pun? I’m not overly familiar with Oscar Wilde, but I do recognize impressions of him, and Hypnausea himself doesn’t seem too far off from some of the more foppish portrayals of the ol’ author/sodomite.
Speaking of sodomy, I could make a dirty reference between ‘Bearman’ and ‘OOMPH’, but I’m sure you two guys have made all the jokes possible about it (ladies, pay no attention to us men, we get a huge kick out of making the dirtiest references possible…and, on that note, poopoo caca weewee).
What will happen with Scap and his new wax museum? Will he fall asleep with the coffee pot on and burn the place down? Will he rent it out to illegal immigrant families and have them wash his filthy costume?…and are there are any more degrading possibilities I haven’t considered?
Watched the video. Wow, you look terribly normal! Except for the costume and make-up and stuff. Good voice, though.
Scap and a Wax musuem definitely has horrific possibilities. And if you’re taking Scap in a new direction, then I assume that it’s not just going to be Wax musuem movie parodies (although, obviously, a little of that would be good!).
“Terribly normal?!” Why, that’s…that’s the meanest thing anyone’s ever said to me! I…I…I’ll never speak to you again! WAAAAAAAAAAAA-AHHH-AAAAAAAA!
[a fifteen minute bout of crying into my pillow with Evanescence playing ensued…]
Well, at least my voice was pleasing. More to come on the Wax Museum, naturally!
Yeah, “Terribly normal”, although I’m wondering if without the make up you wouldn’t look more creepy. Perhaps the scapula character you draw, is inspired by a hidden psychopath personality you have ?
And Evanescence, meh, you have poor musical tastes. Cry with something better next time.
The youngest billy goat told him, “My brother will be crossing this bridge soon, he is much bigger than I and would be a better meal!”. So he waited and when the second billy goat crossed the bridge, he told him, “My biggest brother will be crossing this bridge soon, he is much, much bigger than I and would be a much better meal!”.
Next time, the third goat will succeed in crossing the bridge. It’s not a ridiculous troll that would stop a big goat. Goats are so smart, and your video is maaaa….
Well, sorry for the late arrival to the commentary hun, it’s been a….. yeah, some kind of week.
Scapula and Hypnausea pulling off a heist? The guards must have been so stunned by Hypnausea’s suit they didn’t even SEE Scap! Not that he’s been doing bad lately….. compared to his usual.
Looking forward to this hun……. I love wax museums. I don’t even know why.
No worries, although it hasn’t been quite the same without your trademark lessons about fighting with every object known to man (and this week I thought we were going to learn about chains). Sometimes I do start missing my regulars…as for the trolls, well, they’re ALWAYS around!
Yessiree, Scap and Hyp succeeded. How? Leave that to your imagination. In fact, if anyone wants to postulate how this heist went, post your stories below!
As for the wax museum, maybe we’ll be lucky and it will be full of statues of hot, hot ladies! Hey, if Scapula is running the joint…
Chains are a pretty easy weapon, really, but they have that ‘easy to learn hard to master’ thing going. Flailing away at some poor goof with a chain is simple enough and you can give it a wide swing to build momentum, in which case the thicker and heavier (and longer) the chain, the more hurt unleashed…… to a point. About a foot to foot and a half is fine, and leave some of it below the hand to counterweight properly!
Longer chains with fancier manouvers require a lot of training and preferably lighter chain. Flailing still hurts but concentrating on not hitting yourself is a key point…… much like a whip, you can’t always control or predict where that momentum will go, ESPECIALLY if you hit something like a wall or person! Keep light on your feet and try not to overextend, and for the love of God protect your face. Better yet leave all the trips, entangles, sweeps, and whip-cracks with these weapons where they belong….. properly trained martial artists and Hollywood.
Also not stiffer chains ricochet less but hurt more, and bike chain doesn’t flex left to right much, making it safer to crack people with but harder to get the ‘swing’ of! Hehehehehehehehe.
There ya go hun! Just ’cause I like ya!
WOW!…ummm, next week, fighting with sporks?
I can only assume you’ve learned all of these techniques from some wise old biker master (whom I am going to mentally picture as Yoda wearing Hell’s Angels-type clothes), and have vowed to only use your knowledge and skills for the good of mankind (…and more importantly, womankind. Hey, they have all the nice parts!).
Actually most of that was from a wise old biker’s babe, who went by Dolly Rio. Woman was 55 and had a body to die for….. and if you tried anything you would. She was a frigging ballerina with a chain in hand.
Tough study too. I broke a lot of bones learning the moves from her. Actually SHE broke a lot of bones, all mine! As for the good of woman kind…. sort of. I mean it taught me one important thing. I suck with a chain and should stick to using my fists!
Personally I liked the first part of the video with the spooky lighting the best! Would have been cool to have the whole video done that way.
Not having a remotely criminal mind, I can’t imagine what Scapula wants with whole wax museum. And wait! How did he manage to actually pull off a heist? Or is there more about that to come, as well?
Sorry I missed most of the guest comics. When I get th time I’ll go back and peruse them all.
Hoo boy…if I had done an entire video with that face into the camera the FBI would immediately put out a file on me as a potential criminal threat! Remember folks, it’s usually the person you least suspect…unless if it’s a raving lunatic in fright make-up, in which case go with your gut.
The actual heist itself isn’t so important as the fact that he pulled off a crime and he’s earned himself a little reward. But what is the REAL payday here?
Scap knows how to dress fancy. I wonder, where did he get that suit? He can’t even pay his rent, from what I remember. Then again, he could’ve just stolen it on the way to the heist.
Scap went into the heist prepared (for once). He was disguised as SOMEONE…but who? Well, who wears a snazzy white suit and has a ton of money?…hmmm…Al Pacino in ‘Scarface’? Ricardo Montalban on ‘Fantasy Island’? John Travolta in ‘Saturday Night Fever’?
Oh my GOD! He was the most terrible villain of all….. he was…..
MY BOSS! (No joke, one of my usual ‘meatsacks’, IE people I bodyguard, wears a white suit and wine red shirt. No tie though….. Scap is classier I see!)
Hmmm…perhaps there was a third party in on the heist? A certain bodyguard takes her lunchbreak early, steps out, and Scapula and Hypnausea step in and do the rest.
It could WORK!
Of course not! Pay no attention to the wad of cash I’m currently counting.
…mmmmm…..muuuhhh-neeeee….