BONE CHINA pt.2
Call me biased, but I never really got the huge appeal of celebrity wax sculptures. Yes, it takes an insane amount of work to make a lump of wax resemble an actual person (the human eye and brain are trained to spot anything less-than-perfect about another human’s features…whereas a monster is a monster), but still…I don’t get a huge thrill out of seeing wax doubles of Halle Berry or Harrison Ford or whoever. Maybe I’ve been in Hollywood too long.
Having a big wax museum in San Francisco instead of southern California is a bit of a stretch, but maybe that’s why the place went out of business and Scap picked it up cheap. Too bad he didn’t inspect the goods first!
For those of you who enjoyed last week’s video, I’ll be making another one real soon. And for those of you who DIDN’T enjoy it, I’ll be making another one real soon. NYAH!
Oooooooh. Someone’s getting a sidekick? A kind of evil assistant/understudy/apprentice? Or maybe it’s his 20 year estranged daughter….. He strikes me as dead-beat dad material.
It wouldn’t be the first time Scapula was accused of fathering an abandoned child, but he claims that’s not the case (or at least he did waaaaay back in A CRAPPY CRIME CAPER).
As for a sidekick…hmmm….would she look good in a yellow cape and red-and-green tights?
I’m thinking more of a black and red jumpsuit with frills and bells maybe.
Has Scapula always been a fan of Metallica? How come Scaps doesn’t wear actual horns any longer? And did you know that “WOK THUNK KRAK BONK” means “Please pass the salt” in Cantonese?
He’s listening to the Misfits (the song is “Die, Die My Darling”), but I’m sure he likes Metallica as well.
As for your creative insight about the Cantonese sound effects, I’ve written a short one-act play. The setting is a bilingual Chinese family at the dinner table. Scene:
Dad: “WOK THUNK KRAK BONK!”
Son: “Here you go.”
Dad: “Hey! This is pepper!”
Son: “Oh, sorry, I thought you said ZONK”.
THE END.
Yeah, previous note that I might work with Scap?
Double yes as of now. The simple fact we both hate celebrities would prevent me from outright killing him.
What about quasi-neo-micro-celebrities like the Jersey Shore douchetards?
Y’know… Famous for being famous and all
(cont.) that stupidity.
(What the heck happened there??)
Internet gremlins. They screw with everything.
It looks like there’s more than enough celebrity statues to vent your anger on, so if you ever need a good way to spend a slow afternoon swing by Scap’s place! There’s plenty of coffee, cigarettes and mindless aggression for everyone!
what do we have here?
p.s i have a feeling scap is being a bit cynical
Maybe just an itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teeny-tiny bit!
Scappie gets to use his college edumacation. It’s nice to evolve one’s skills. Monsters are much more amazing than mere folk. Even a teenage Werewolf or Frankstein creature is better than a Lohan.
Now I’m thinking: what if they were to remake those cinema classics “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” and “I Was a Teenage Frankenstein”? Who would play the title roles? Justin Bieber with a bunch of hair spirit-gummed to his face?
Now THAT would be a horror movie!
THAT would certainly give me chicken skin, fer sure. I can’t get that picture out of my mind. A pox upon you.
I’m on pins and needles waiting to see who she is. Scap may have him a new love interest finally. So long as she doesn’t realize who he is. Don’t mess this up, Scap!
Is Scap capable of having a love interest? That’s almost like asking if Throgor will ever take a shower…or if Hank Addanac will ever get straight-A’s!
Hank could get straight A’s if he cheated so Scap could get a woman if he lied about everything he is.
Now you’re on to something! But it would have to be a reeeeally convincing lie…
Speaking of celebrities, he looks like a deranged Kermit the Frog in panel 4.
I don’t know about Kermit, but I took another look at it again and he does look like one of the more disturbing Muppets. If you’ve ever seen the very earliest incarnation of Cookie Monster you’d be surprised to see that he had great sharp teeth (no joke), and Scap here looks a little like him.
I can’t tell if she has a cigarette in the corner of her mouth, or it it’s just the lighting. Small dark line to the side of her lips with the highlight on her face resembling wispy smoke.
No cigarette. I think I just got sloppy with my Photoshop painting. Oh well, a little turpentine will fix that smudge…
I dunno, wax celebrities scare the piss out of me. I went to Madam Tussauds in Vegas and was scared to death that I was peering into the face of an actual celebrity and it was going to turn and start talking to me!
Realism is great, but THAT level of realism makes me want to hide under a blanket!
And yes, they do have wax monsters. I felt better being among them. <3
Human brains are trained to detect even the slightest defect in other people, which is why a wax duplicate is always going to mentally register as “wrong” (this is the same reason why “The Polar Express” creeped some people out…it’s ‘real’ but not quite ‘real’ enough).
Wax monsters, on the other hand, are always a lot of fun. I think the human mind enjoys being tricked or scared!
That 4th panel is frup’in hilarious! And who’s this new stranger?
“Frup’in” is the word of the day! Everybody remember to say it to your friends, family, co-workers, and the other swingin’ kids at the soda shoppe!
Lol, I hate it when you expect monsters and get celebrities.
Really digging your art style btw.
Thanks for commenting, Brandon! Glad you enjoyed, and if I ever get a talking couch I’ll make sure not to sit on it after eating Mexican food!
I would have guessed Scap would have been all about the Bond ladies…
especially if they weren’t running away!
LOVE your third panel, too, Aidan… talk about making big-air hilarious!
🙂
I think the only Bond ladies he would be into are the villainous ones. I’m not really familiar with the James Bond film franchise, so if any of you wish to recommend any of the ‘bad girls’ of the series feel free to comment here!
Celebrities turn into monsters as they age and get their faces pulled back around their backsides…. but not all monsters are celebrities! Am I right? or am I Frup’in right?!? [grin]
There MUST have been at least one low-budget horror movie based on plastic surgery (there just has to be), although I can’t think of any at the moment. It’s such a potentially frightening subject matter that would lend itself to a “science-gone-wrong” tale…or at least a lot of gory effects.
I’d like to see some sculptures of folks like Ghengis Khan and Ted Bundy
If it’s just celebrities now you might find Chaka Khan and Al Bundy!
With some celebrities the scary part could be that they were famous in the first place… but I guess that would be more annoying than scary!
Hoo boy…tell you what, folks. Let’s play a little game: see if you can name the most frightening celebrity possible to portray in a wax museum. Who is the most terrifying celebrity of them all?
Gary Busey?
That’s a good one!
Willem Dafoe
He can be scary, but in an awesome way.
C’mon, people, I was expecting at least one person to say Joan Rivers!
Hot damn… I WAS going to say Joan Rivers!! I wasn’t sure that anyone else thought she was scary!
“The chick from that Bond movie.” Well, that narrows it down to about 50 or so women. Can we be a bit more specific?
That one girl who showed her cleavage a lot. Does that narrow it down?
Fortunately for me, somebody’s done what seems to be an exhaustive list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_girl#Films
Sweet! I’d say there was something for everyone but my preferred female body type seems to be sadly missing.
Oh well. Maybe they’ll get Beth Ditto to be in the next one.
Im with Jynksie, the horror of numerous plastic surgeries on some of those aged celebrities, especially the men, is truly monstrous. Have you seen Kenny Rogers lately – AHHHHHHH!
I wish some people would just age gracefully, because by the time you get the third or fourth facelift you’re really not fooling anyone. You’re just frightening children and small animals.
I was going to do a Google image search on Kenny Rogers, but now I’m feeling chicken.
Well, there’s always MIchael Jackson.
Ooooh…too soon? No, wait, everyone was making fun of him BEFORE he died, and then pretending they always loved him after he kicked the bucket.
My image of Michael Jackson was tarnished. I was a fan before, but I liked him much less at the end . Dubious personality, and dubious last album. The sudden death didn’t change much things, I was even more disappointed : dying with drugs, if that’s not stupid, I thought he was better than common mortals.
The good thing is that my musical tastes evolved , and that I listened to more different stuff.
I just listened to “die die my darling” by the misfits, that’s what I call good taste !
Does anyone else want to make the comparison between post-surgery Jacko and the Misfit’s ‘Crimson Ghost’ logo?
I’m with Scapula. Wax museums are overrun with celebrities. What fun is that? I can turn on TMZ to see vapid, rich people fawning all over themselves. Unless I can punch the wax figures, they should be monsters.
I will give the wax statues credit: they sure are a hell of a lot QUIETER than the celebrities they’re based upon! We could only be so lucky if some of the stars would take a cue from their dummies and, well, dummy up!
Last panel is so beautifully haunting and calm in contrast to the rest of the strip! Love it.
Glad to hear someone enjoys the entrance of our mysterious new character, whoever the hell she is!
Oh man, poor guy. What a bummer of a day.
Maybe it will get better! He’s got a visitor.
I have to ask, is there actually a difference between celebrities and monsters?
The difference is I’m sad when a monster dies in a movie. When it’s a celebrity, not so much.
The one and only good thing about “Collateral” was seeing Tom Cruise die!
So Scap’s a Metallica fan? Or did that just coincidentally be happening to play on the radio at the time?
Again, it’s the Misfits playing (“Die, Die My Darling” from Collection I), not Metallica. I’m sure he likes both, though.
Just wondering if he could enjoy some Merzbow too.
I’m with Scapula in Panel 3. Damned Celebraties! :`)
May they all break apart like so many wax mannequins!
When I was a kid, my mom took me to the MovieLand Wax Museum… somewhere down there in SoCal…(is it still around?). I dunno… I don’t dislike wax reproductions… but the figures always seem so static. No fight scenes or action… just some celebrity just standing there. Now about that GREAT Vincent movie… are you channeling House of Wax here… homage? And I like this Mysterio girl idea.
It’s closed, I believe, but back in the days when I worked on Knott’s Berry Farm I used to see it on the bus route and wonder about going inside. Oh well, just one of those things I missed (I also lived in San Jose without ever going to the Winchester Mansion).
“House of Wax” with Vincent Price is definitely a beloved classic, and the film it’s based on, “Mystery of the Wax Museum” with Lionel Atwill, also deserves some recognition.
‘Mysterio girl’? Does she have a fishbowl helmet and hallucinogenic gas? (that’s a joke only a fanboy will get)
A nobody. What the? Love panel 4