03/24/2013
LoveFest (later renamed LovEvolution) is an actual event that takes place annually in San Francisco, usually in the autumn months. “Lovey-Dovey-Parade-Fest”, however, takes place in March because that’s when this storyline just happens to be running (thank God I didn’t have a Christmas comic lined up…).
The parade goers wear almost as weird clothes as the Monster Doom Legion
Hey, at least the supervillains have the decency to wear pants.
Lovey-Dovey-Parade-Fest? Sounds interesting, sign me up for the next one – the one minus the super-villain loonies…oh wait, wouldn’t that describe the entire population of SF? 😉
Wonder what else Scap’s got in that bag? That SMG was it? Or something else? In any case, it looks like he’s finally found the sense somewhere to try shooting something besides his mouth (nope, not going there, that joke is just way too old. And shriveled).
And I wonder what Bone China will think when she sees this news report? And I don’t even want to think how many languages Jemini, Sharkmouth, and Jeraukov are going to use up all the curse words in.
Strangely fitting that we only see Bombastar in only a very tiny portion of one panel…
Anyways, great work as always, Aidan. Love the one-color, one-panel background scheme. Bright color choices make the strip very dynamic and adds to the overall fast-action, panicked emotion plot. I could almost hear the screams of the crowd in my head while reading this strip (or maybe it was just the ghosts of my dead ant farm tormenting me again).
I usually try to avoid heavily-saturated colors, since they can quickly make artwork look jarring and nauseous, but I will concede that it has its uses. Today’s strip would not have worked the same with the kind of washed-out tones I usually use. Here’s to variety!
I’m sure SF has parades without loonies, but they’re few and far in-between. Even the St. Patrick’s Day one has gotten pretty wacko.
As for them dead ants, you can always make that joke about Henry Mancini stepping on one and singing, “Dead ant, dead ant, dead ant dead ant dead ant…” (ahh, the Pink Panther never gets old…except when they remade it).
Good old Toxsick, even he is going Green. I think he re-purposed an Electro-Lux vaccuum cleaner and used it’s exhaust port to spread his fumes. Oh, never mind, I’m probably wrong about that too. I like the crowd drawings. the little drawing remind me of the MAD magazine illustrations of my ” yoot”.
I can never draw any crowd scene without some influence of MAD creeping in there. It just can’t be done. Crowd scenes can be pure agony for any artist to draw, but that medicine can be sugared with a lot of hidden jokes and funny faces sprinkled into the midst.
…not that that makes much difference to Toxsick. As far as he’s concerned, they’re all just target marks!
That’s what I love about the Horror/Exploitation genre, a chainsaw is a very practical weapon. Thus in our culture we have excepted it as so.
A chainsaw is good in theory, but not in practice. They have enough problems with clogging and jamming/kickbacks when going through wood – can you imagine how bad it would be going through a wet squishy thing like a human torso? You’d have to constantly be stopping to clean the drive-gears and reset the chain into the bar groove. Not to mention the problems you’d have if the air intakes get choked with fleshy bits…
Josh, ol’ buddy…you’re not speaking from experience, are ya? Gulp.
Oldskool, the reality of using a chainsaw as a weapon is something I wouldn’t know (my weapon of choice being non sequiturs), but I will recommend a film called My Name is Bruce, where Bruce Campbell notices the reality of using chainsaws isn’t quite what the movies made it out to be!
That was the first movie I thought of when typing that.
The true power of the chainsaw isn’t in the reality of what it can do to the human body. It lies in what the human mind can perceive it to be able to do.
Doesn’t matter what I know about how effective a chainsaw would be. All that matters is I have seen too many news stories about people injured or dismembered in a chainsaw accident, and seen too many horror movies.
Someone comes at me with a revving chainsaw, I am gonna freak. Period. It’s only a question of whether I keep my head enough to run … or do I just wet myself and wait to die.
Hell, at one of those Halloween horror parks I still ended up bolting like a jackrabbit even though I knew the hockey mask freak with a chainsaw was just a nerd like me and the chainsaw was fake. The reflexes still took me from zero to ludicrous speed (I went to PLAID!) in under two seconds, and I was OUT of that maze!
Just as long as you didn’t use the emergency brake during ludicrous speed you should be fine (otherwise, just hope you’re wearing a VERY thick helmet).
I’ll wait for Lady Jenn to give her expert advice on how to deal with an attacker with a chainsaw (she’s probably faced a few in her time), but until then I’m in the same boat as GreyWolf: if I see a chainsaw-wielding wackadoo I’m staying the hell away. That’s just common sense!
Buddy of mine started playing Saints Row 3, yesterday found out one of the taunts is called the Hail Scroob – even includes the finger waggle! 😀
As long as he didn’t play it on an Unlisted Wall!
Firstly, a chainsaw does pretty decent against fleshy targets. They rip through gooey bits really nicely and you can get a good arc with them. The bones get a bit chunky but no worse than normal. If you get a splash guard and a really modified feed to keep it all from gunking up the works, they’re fantastic.
INCIDENTALLY, I know this because I used to help a fellow I know dispose of dead zoo animals. Preferred tool for rhinos and the like? Yep…… modded up chainsaw.
Besides, a glancing blow would lacerate the hell out of you and cause critical gory injuries, and would scare the bejesus outta onlookers.
Nextly, when faced with a chainsaw, run. A glance will shred you and snare your clothes, and you do NOT want to see the result of a chainsaw on human flesh and viscera. One of my half brothers is a former lumberjack from up British Columbia way and he used to have some very impressive photos to share……
If you’re stuck in a situation, and no escape is possible, get something not easily cut like a solid pipe or brick to deflect and get an opening to flee. If you’re really desperate, throw your coat, shirt, jeans, whatever at the blade. Really thick fiber like denim can in fact tangle the chain and even burn out the motor, making it just a really awkward club.
No. I am NOT telling you where or how this ended up being used. That’s one for me and the cops. Suffice to say family ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
….aaaaaaaand there you have it! God damn, I love my readers. I learn so much from all of you!
All I know about chainsaws I learned from Leatherface…and that’s more than enough.
At least it didn’t rain… that would REALLY spoil things!
Yeah, what’s a few thousand fatalities in the middle of a festival. It’s not like the festival goers ain’t replacing the fallen already.
It is noteworthy to make the following statement: Finally! Some actual badassery from Scapula and pals!
Saaaay…rain would have made it a pretty cool atmosphere. Naw, scratch that, in cartoon stereotypes, rain is best saved for melodramatic scenes (much like Byronic cliffsides by the sea).
But hey, we’ll get to that mood when we need it. For right now it’s a bright and sunny day of badassery!
Stay in the cab, Bombastar. And try not to touch the radio.
Scapula knows where Bombastar is best used…far away from the action!
Woohoo! Go-time biznitches! Game on baby!
This is a bug-hunt, man! Game over, man!
I at least know where Waldo is.
…or where he will be: the morgue!
I have to hand it to the boys. They nailed the big entrance.
Supervillains are masters of getting attention. Even in a crowd like this one, a lot can be said for a snazzy skeleton costume or a hi-tech Tigadactyl suit!
It’s odd.. But I find myself beginning to hope that scapula might just make something of himself. I mean: he’s really devoted to this super villany-thing, and he deserves to see his ambitions finally come to something!
Very well said, Esben, amigo. Nothing odd about rooting for a villain, especially when his ambitions are to make a little cash and wipe out a few annoying schmucks in the street!
And Tox nails the intro, with an assist from Hypnausea! Scapula takes up the stage and hammers home the message, with Babirus, Throgor and Tigadactyl coming in on the wings! It doesn’t look good for the love-festers. So far they’re hauling a big fat zero on the scoreboard. Over to you, Aidan.
Thank you, Jenn. In the ‘lighter’ side of the news, it looks like we’ve got some footage of some cute squirrels taken during the shooting massacre! I tell you, the way they scamper about is positively “nutty”! Ha ha ha haaaa. We’ll be back at 10 for more news on the carnage.
Wait… you mean Hypnausia isn’t participating in the Lovey-Dovey Parade Fest? Not even a presenter? Tsk-tsk. I’d say his focus isn’t on what’s REALLY important.
He’s slept with too many people in the crowd, so now it’s just kind of awkward for him to go, well, ANYWHERE!
Aidan, you always draw some of the best concert/party scenes I’ve ever witnessed. You just bring the fun and frolic to life.
Thanks, George buddy! I hope all of this drawing pays off, because these darn crowd scenes take forever to make!