04/04/2013
For the unacquainted: Knuckle Sam met Jemini (or rather, her duplicate) in the SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLES FEATURE story arc; their “relationship” continued until the latter’s death in THE JEMINI KILLER.
For the unacquainted: Knuckle Sam met Jemini (or rather, her duplicate) in the SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLES FEATURE story arc; their “relationship” continued until the latter’s death in THE JEMINI KILLER.
Soooo… still in mourning, huh?
Yeah, might be good to stay more than arm’s length away from Sam for a while yet…
It’s a little tough when you realize Sam’s arms are gorilla-length (and gorilla-strong…I don’t know if she smells like one, though), so it’s best to just run as far away as possible. Then pray she doesn’t hurl something at you!
She might be stronger than your average gorilla actually, did you see how she broke that troglodite’s neck like she was opening a valve?!
She ALMOST broke his neck…but not quite. Throgor is alive and well, neck completely intact.
Unless if she broke some OTHER troglodyte’s neck, but last I checked Michael Vick’s neck has not yet been snapped.
Haha! Michael Vick, nice one! I bet it’d be even funnier if I knew who that one was…
But no, I was ctually refering to Rod in this strip:
http://www.scapulacomic.com/?p=2325
Oh, that’s right!
Y’know, I never believed it possible that a cartoonist could forget about comics they’ve drawn before (they’re all so precious, right?….right?), but I guess after you’ve been drawing so many of them for years on end it starts to blur a wee bit.
I guess that’s a ‘badge of honor’, but I could do without the early onset of senility, thankyaverymuch!
Just for reference it’s not actually all that hard to snap someone’s neck. Not from personal experience, but I did work with a nun who had trained some people (She never told me who exactly) in hand to hand techniques and joined the sisterhood after she accidentally killed a student. She told me that it’s only slightly harder than snapping a broom handle.
Lady Jenn, if that doesn’t sound like a great superhero origin then I don’t know what is!
Now I’m going to have to create a really bad-ass nun character to join the Coven…
That would make me laugh. A lot.
Deja vu eh, Misery?
If Annie Wilkes had survived the ending (woops, spoiler), beefed up at the gym, then went EXTRA-flipping crazy…yeah, you’d get Knuckle Sam.
I can almost hear her neck snapping on the last panel… OUCH! XD
Egad! Little Miss Miserable can’t die just now! We’ve got a whole story to finish!
I don’t want to see Sam when she finds out that Jemini isn’t just alive, but massively multiplied. She’s either going to squeal in pitches that shatter glass, or she’s going to be freaking furious.
Either way, I’m not envious of anyone in her way on a bad day. I hope Little Miss Miserable’s familiar with a good chiropractor!
That may just be a story worth writing on its own, but we’ll get to that later. Right now Sam is simply motivated by what she saw, even if it’s only the tip of the Jemini duplicate iceberg (no, that’s not a mass of frozen Jemini corpses in the water, although that might make an interesting story as well).
Little Miss Miserable somehow survived her last bear-hug from Sam, so let’s hope she knows how to deal with it!
My suggestion would be ‘go limp’.
Don’t worry, Sam, there’s an extra huggable girl out there for you somewhere. You just have to break enough people’s bones to find her.
Now Knuckle Sam is just looking for excuses to kill Scapula. He wasn’t directly involved in Jemini’s clone’s homicide. Just admit it! He’s annoying! That’s it! You don’t need any other reason to kill someone!
I bet Little Miss Miserable will say something along the lines of: “I once saw him in the streetlicking a lollipop, and I asked can have a lick? and he said No! It’s MY lollipop! Get your own!
Normally I wouldn’t mind, it was his lollipop, after all. But he said so rudely. I felt sad. He must pay!”
And the Llorona ( double “L” in spanish is pronounced like “SH” in english, by the way) will say something like: ” Scapula didn’t have any children for me to kidnap. HE! MUST! DIE!”
Very nice theories, Silly Zealot! Knowing that all it takes is a nail-flick to anger these characters, I’d say your stories might not be far off from the truth.
We can probably all agree that poor ol’ Sam has got anger issues; as for whether or not they’re rightly aimed at Scapula (and Throgor) is debatable.
This is the last of the exposition strips for now, so that means we’re going to skip past the rest of the flashbacks and get to some action. Yes, I know, that means we’re skipping Little Miss and Crybaby’s soliloquys, but let’s just say their reasons make about as much sense as…well, asking to lick a stranger’s lollipop!
Ay, no, Señor Zealot. The double-l is pronounced like a “y” in English. 😉
And although I can do without Crybaby’s fairy tale – I gotta say I am truly curious to her what the heck Little Miss is doing there. Seems a bit extreme for her style, and Scapula never affected her directly, that I can remember.
Tell that to all the hicks who pronounce llama as “Lama”. Even Disney didn’t bother to pronounce it right (in an otherwise perfect film)!
The answer will…not shock you. Check out the next Sunday comic.
You can’t blame Sam for being emotional, she’s been through a lot! Love the montage!
Thanks, Mark! It’s good to know someone cares about the big, abusive lug.
Knuckle Sam must be handy to have around. It’s not every gal who can change a tire without needing a jack nor a tire iron. I like her lots.
Heck, with Knuckle Sam you don’t even need a car. You just tell her where you want to go and she’ll THROW you there!