04/05/2015
What’s more frightening: a bloodthirsty vampire or Hypnausea in the buff? That’s up to you to decide, although I suspect a lot of my readers would actually enjoy both.
Scapula’s warehouse is filled with all sorts of cool crap from various monster movies. Can YOU identify any of the props lying around there?
Who knew a hyena could cuddle? Throgor. Who knew a hyena would cuddle Throgor? No one.
No one except the hyena. Awwwwww.
Yeah, I like how the author drew himself into the comic, too.
…wait, what?
You ain’t the hyena? Your name says you are the hyena!
Hypnausea in the buff, I am one happy little lunatic. <3
A horny reader is a happy reader (I guess)!
Ahem. 😀
Hm, I see a Kong head in the middle there, and I’m not sure if that’s a space shuttle prop or a maser barrel just left, and DANGIT, why can’t I remember where the what’s-his-face far left is from?! And the tentacles could be from the giant octopus that was so well used in things like King Kong vs. Godzilla, or the weird end from the Frankenstein giant monster movie I think…… And of course Scapula’s watching the old Gillman on the tube. Man, what kind of crazy auctions would you even have to hit to find stuff like that? Up here in ye old frozen north (northern Canada) you just don’t see much of that kind of thing, for obvious reasons. Although we do have a healthy bootleg circuit up here for monster flicks and MST3K episodes!
Hm….. pre-battle bloodletting ritual or just a Metalocalypse backup group performance? Either way you gotta be careful cutting along the forearm like that. Lots of tendons and stuff in there. Severed one of those once at work in a burger king and now I can’t straighten out my pinkie finger on my right hand. Makes high fives….. awkward.
The robot is from The Phantom Creeps starring Bela Lugosi.
THANK YOU! That was bothering the HECK outta me!
That would be a maser cannon (from War of the Gargantuas and various other Toho films). I don’t know how big the folks at Tsuburaya built those props so I might have taken some liberties regarding size. Oh wells.
The tentacle could be any given rubber octopus arm from any given movie with a rubber octopus; I had drawn it with It Came From Beneath the Sea in mind, but any good Harryhausen fan will tell you that there are no life-size tentacle props in that film and that the unfortunately-named ‘sextopus’ model was nowhere close to life-size.
As for the cutters, I doubt it would be fatal (unless it’s a very dirty knife). Remember, kids, it’s “down the road, not across the street”!
The masers, from what I remember, came in two sizes….. the foot sized ones that got stepped on a lot, and the car-sized ones that were used in shoots in the backgrounds. Of course there were about 5000 of the little ones and about 2 of the larger ones. Amusingly me and some friends of mine routinely get into arguements about masers vs lasers.
Take the argument to the folks who do the subtitles (or “dubtitles”) for the Godzilla DVD releases. They always change ‘maser’ to ‘laser’ as well.
Does Hypnausea wax?
I am not ashamed that this is the first thing to come to mind upon seeing him nude.
Consider also the possibility that all the weird drugs and such he’s been exposed to over time have caused all his hair to fall out, and what we see on his head is a wig.
Since he’s the sole member of the SMDL who cares about his personal appearance, I’m sure Hypnausea engages in all sorts of lengthy and/or painful rituals to stay good-lookin’.
As for the ‘loss of hair’ theory, it’s an interesting one. Hell, at this point maybe his whole body is fake and all that’s left is his head (his very, very perverted head).
Okay so seeing the tentacle rigged to the ceiling with ropes made me immediately think of Bride of the Atom or Monster by the Amazingly Horrible Ed Wood Jr. That is the best Easter surprise for me.being reminded of schlock. ^_^
I’m sure most any Wood fan knows that the leftover octopus prop in that movie was either a) missing its battery or controls, or b) was unable to be operated by anyone in the Bride of the Monster film crew (or possibly both). If nothing else the octopus’ victims should have gotten additional credits as ‘animators’, since they made the damn arms move by shaking them about!
Hey, isn’t that robot in the far left the one that starred in an awful Bela Lugosi film? ‘The phantom creeps’?
Technically it’s a film serial, but you are indeed correct. I still haven’t finished The Phantom Creeps (it’s pretty long), so the quality/entertainment value is debatable.
But I guess Rob Zombie liked it, since he’s stolen the robot for his stage show and Dragula music video!
How convenient! Zis vill simpleefy evrysing! If only the very homely robot had exploding spiders as well. Also that looks like Wells’ Time Machine from Time After Time, but I assume it’s not, unless you’re considering Malcolm McDowell a monster. ‘Strewth.
Spiny Norman could very well be inside that monster’s den (now there was a kaiju worthy of battling gangsters and Godzilla alike)! The MST3K crew seemed to mistake him for Godzilla’ pal Anguirus.
As for the big prop, sorry, it’s not from The Time Machine (the George Pal one), but not a bad guess either. I could have stuck a Morlock costume in there, I guess (they were the only things about that movie I remember liking).
Dinsdale? Dinsdaaale…
Red light for creepy business!
Green light for…uh…money?
I’m not so much surprised that the page contains tentacles, vampirism and naked Hypnausea, as I am that they’re not in the same panel.
Well, that’s possible, if Hypnausea was fooling around with a vampire chick in Scap’s warehouse. Hell, ANYTHING is possible in this rotten comic! Maybe aliens will appear in next week’s installment!