03/31/2013
For the unacquainted: profiles on Knuckle Sam, Mira Mira, Mona Naware, and Dr. Jeraukov can be seen in the NEW READER section.
Little Miss Miserable appeared in the UNE SEMAINE DE BONTÉ BANDE DESSINÉE chapter, SUNDAY: ASH.
Crybaby first appeared in MY LLORONA.
Ah, thank you for that flashback. I really need to go back over the archives again one of these days.
Whatever happened to the idea of a Little Miss Miserable comic? Pretty sure I would be adding that one to my list. 🙂
This is the reason why I started doing the “For the unacquainted” footnotes; at this point having to sift through five years of archives just to answer the question, “Who the hell is that character?”, can get a little tedious.
Regarding the Little Miss Miserable comic, that all depends on if Ash feels like doing it. Doing a webcomic can be an enormous commitment (that is, if you want to do a GOOD webcomic), so I don’t blame her for focusing on other things in life first. Hey, not every artist is a masochist!
Jeraukov…either you’re as crazy as your patients or you just don’t realize how in over your head you are. Crybaby is a psychotic kiler, Knuckles Sam is a rough bikie-queen with no respect for anyone – and two such individuals aren’t likely to take orders from a snobbish disillusioned hack-shrink – at least not unless the price is right.
And Mira Mira is a scientist, not a street brawler, and Naware and Misery are nothing more than common self-serving town dolls. I seriously hope you have a contingency plan, doc…
Well, at least Bone China isn’t a part of that idiocy. It’s a good thing Jeraukov doesn’t know of her – she’d likely be the best weapon she could utilize against Scap…
I have to wonder though, is this the same Crybaby from before? Or just another gal in the costume? We’ll have to wait and see. As always, I love the art, Aidan. Can’t wait to see what happens next!
I didn’t give it too much thought, but I guess this is the same Crybaby we’ve met before (although anyone can put on that outfit and act like a kook).
…but would Bone China really join a group like this?
We shall have to wait and see if the Coven runs any better than the Sinister Monster Doom Legion, but at least they’re easier on the eyes (and probably the other senses…there’s no Babirus stinking up THIS gang!). Glad you’re enjoying the show, Treike!
So…. what incentive do… ANY of these women have for teaming up together? Knuckle Sam and Mira Mira are the only two who’d be able to help her in any meaningful way, but they both have the smarts/brawn to make it on their own. Hope we address this in the future?
We’ll find out over the course of this week what the individual members are doing in a group like this. Maybe their motivations are as noble (insert air-quotes if you must) as Dr. Jeraukov’s, or maybe they also share her hatred of Scapula. All shall be revealed!
“Every one of those convicts I worked with went right back to being the same”
Doesn’t that just mean she was really shit at her job?
Very good point, Frankie D! It’s a “chicken/egg syndrome” along the lines of “who is to blame for a bad child’s behavior: the child or the parent?”. In this case was Jeraukov really working on a slew of perverted lost causes, or did her personal politics supersede doing her job?
I leave it up to you, the readers, to decide. Go through her spoken “manifesto” again and judge for yourself.
I’m thinking that Knuckle Sam and Mira Mira are giving each other the stink eye.
Dr. J’s manifesto ends up being a recap of the old Charles Bronson movie plot, if she were to try to do it alone.
You have so many plot twists you could use that it must boggle your brain cells. There are so many Alphas in this group that I see “iron sharpening iron” situations coming up.
Frankie D. has a very good point.
Sam and the Miras didn’t exactly see eye to eye the last time they worked together (that’s because Sam is seven feet tall and the Miras barely break the five foot mark!), so it’s doubtful they’re pleased to see one another…or four another…whatever.
So many twists, so many turns. Which one shall we go with? Will someone double-cross the boss, if she doesn’t do it first? Will they work together successfully? Or will Little Miss Miserable drive them all off a cliff? Decisions, decisions!
OK, this is creepy. I’m at work and being a cable company, we have a few TV’s mounted on the walls around the office so if we suspect an issue being with the network and not us (or an issue with on-demand) we can check the tv to see it for ourselves.
I just happened to glance up and … Death Wish V is playing.
::cue Twilight Zone music::
Dr. J is plainly off her rocker. It’s gonna be interesting to see what havoc she will wreak because folks who are mentally unhinged can usually create the most irrevocable damage. I hope Fool and The Gang can stay a few steps ahead of The Coven.
HA! “Fool and the Gang” got a laugh out of me. What other titles could we have used? Stevie Blunder? The Crap Band? Earth, Wind & Liars? Hee hee.
With that said, we have a new interesting theory: is Dr. Jeraukov insane? History has had quite a few loonies motivated by fiery personal politics, but is our Coven leader one of them?
Well, if you team up Babirus, Toxsick and Hypnausea you get Earthy, Windy and Flaming …
And, insane? Nah. Totally frickin obsessed? Yeah! Not *technically* an insanity unless she’s crossed particular thresholds, heh. Doesn’t look like she’s muttering incoherently to herself yet, or making obscenely irrational decisions just for the sake of nailing Scapula – like hitting the trigger on a bomb, knowing 50 innocent people will die, just to catch Scap in the blast. Something like that.
But I see it in her future, the rate she’s going.
Very interesting deduction! They’re not coming to take her away (ha-HA) to the funny farm just yet, but who can say what will happen next?
Not me…I’m just the guy who makes these comics!
Okay, I’m going to go out on a limb here and suspect this is either going to turn into a SMDL copycat group as planned, or go the way of the Sicko Six and everyone’s just gonna give the Mad Doc here a whallop across the head and a Yosemite Sam ‘Aaaaaahhh, Shaddap!’. I’m hoping for the latter.
I’m kind of disappointed to see Sam here. I’d think she has bigger concerns than these numbskulls what with her Jemini being killed. Still, what else has she got to do on a saturday night right? Mira Mira (s) I’m not even sure about but her ego’s got to hurt this group somehow. Butt that with Mona and ugh. It’ll be a meeting of several of my exes I never got around to pummelling. The only strength in this group from the Doc’s point I think is Crybaby, because she’s pretty man-hater already.
And yes, I am with Frankie D on the idea that Jeraukov is a pretty crap psych worker. You can’t be a good one if you already believe your efforts are doomed to fail. Trust me, I’ve seen a few and most of them were like that, and they never helped me in the least. Is she insane? I think she falls more into the category of a smart person that’s utterly stupid. As my friend Pocket Philosophy often states, “The most intelligent people are often completely devoid of wisdom or common sense.” In other words, IQ doesn’t equal smart.
I hope this blows up spectacularily! Bonus points if they self destruct without the SMDL even noticing them.
Team spirit doesn’t seem to shine too brightly in this comic, does it?
We’ll be learning over the course of the week why exactly these ladies have all come together and what they’re after. Maybe they share Jeraukov’s cause, maybe they want to get even with Scap, or maybe they’re just looking for someone to beat up.
But we do have some more great opinions coming in. Jeraukov as ‘not insane, but obsessed’ is a very strong argument (even if her group does contain at least one certifiable lunatic), and we shall see how that plays out.
Jeraukov as a rotten psychologist is also debatable; Hannibal Lecter was probably no good at curing patients, but he did put his training to other uses (no, Jeraukov will not be eating anyone, although that would make for a really interesting story some day…).
Well, Lecter’s patients were provably not insane when he was done. I mean, it’s hard to be insane when you’re dead.
“Hester Moffet” might have been crazy…because he really LOST HIS HEAD!
Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! (bounces away a la Daffy Duck).
I just checked. I totally called this way back at the end of Man of a Thousand Failures. The ‘Jeraukov becoming a villain’ thing I mean. Woo, points for me!
Villain? Hmmmm….yeah, we can probably label her as such, but it all depends on if you agree with her or not, I suppose (yeah, I’m waffling…that’s what I get for writing too many characters with too many viewpoints!).
What the heck, you get your points anyway. And you don’t have to share them with the other kids! Woo-hoo!
My points! Back off, they’re MINE! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Don’t hate me for asking… but they aren’t on the roster… who is hoodie girl? … and pink-haired lady? I can’t wait to see more of hoodie girl… and btw… I like “new to the site” page. Smiles!
Hoodie gal is Little Miss Miserable. She’s not so much a central figure in SCAPULA as she is a random passing cameo that I decided to throw in here.
Pink haired lady is Mona Naware. Hear more from her in the next comic!
Practically raped 3 times?? Scap doesn’t have the cojones (literally)
Whoa! Have I ever shown them?! Yeeeeeeeck.
This is one meeting in the ladies room that’s gonna be deadly. Sumptuous art, Aidan!
Thanks, Mark! Y’know, I’ve always wondered what goes on in the room behind the dress-wearing stick figure sign…
The Coven? Now I’m sure I’ve never read this before. I’ve only got 10 years of strips to catch up on! :-/