BONE CHINA pt.11
….eeeeee-yup.
Hell must have froze over, pigs must be booking airline tickets, and Tommy Wiseau must have won an Academy Award, because it looks like ol’ Scap just succeeded with a lady (a sober, willing, non-hypnotized lady!).
While you ponder that over, I’ll take the time to say thanks to everyone who cast their votes last week for the new SCAPULA book; the STORE section is going to be revamped very soon, so making book orders on-line will be much easier. More to come!
Huh. It’s been a thought lurking in the back of my mind, but Katherine has a definite case of angleface. Certain angles of perspective make her visage seem very attractive, others much less so. To my tastes, anyway.
Wonder how she’ll react to Scap’s tattoo. Maybe not at all, given her associates, though the swastika is a little more eye-catching.
I’ll agree with you on the angleface issue; this is the reason why drawing normal/attractive people can be difficult, since our eyes tend to more heavily scrutinize in terms of what is attractive. Drawing caricatured or deformed faces, however, is always easy, which is why this series has probably been so heavily populated with the likes of Scapula, Throgor, and numerous other ugly maniacs.
What can I say? I better grab a sketchbook and go study some hot people!
You sir are a genius maestro of the written form. Suspense!~
Thankya, Derrath; the only suspense now is if she’ll get a bruise after kissing a plastic-faced freak!
Oh, I’m sure they’ll find away around kissing without too much lip-contact. They can just mostly use tongue….. Scap’s is long enough from scenes I’ve seen him in, see? ;D
The benefit of being a KISS fan!
Oh lord YES
Now Scap just needs to show her that splendid chest tattoo of his…
That’s nothin’…wait until he sees the Garfield tattoo on her butt! It could happen!
I dunno man…. A Garfield tattoo would be a deal breaker in my book.
WAKKA-CHIKKA-WOW-WOW
Making out with a plastiic mask must be awkward LOL
Jim
…not to mention mighty uncomfortable (ever sit on an inflatable chair? Ever KISSED one?). Hey, I guess love conquers all little obstacles!
I’d give him half off bodyguard rates for tenacity.
What can I say? I have a soft spot for people with crap luck that refuse to give in!
They always say if you just keep trying and trying and trying and trying and trying and trying and trying and trying and trying you just might one day succeed. Who would have thought it would only have taken him a few little decades to meet a girl who likes him?
Go for it Scap!! And try to NOT ruin it this time by doing something too strange in the last minit!
Right now he’s such a poor thing, you have to go all ‘awww!’ for him or you’r even colder haerted than death. And thats me, an passionate misanthropic writing this… 😉
By the way: really nice writing and emotion here, Aidan!
– Futhermore: Is it just me, or are Scaps eyes totally black on this page?
If this webcomic isn’t the perfect gathering place for passionate misanthropes then I don’t know what is!
Scap’s eyes are just closed. His eyelids are conveniently black in order to create moody, atmospheric details like the ‘hollowed out skull’ effect. I haven’t used it much; in fact, you might even say I was saving it up for this one special occasion!
Ah ok. It just seemed a bit strange with the strong contrast to the lower eyelid, wich is a bit more accentuated. and the fact he’s not even looking in her direction.
Now the seemingly inevitable betrayal is going to make me all sad and stuff. I’m genuinely liking BC.
Things aren’t always what they seem! We’re nowhere close to being finished with this story just yet, so anything can happen.
But hey, if these comics make people sad, all the better. It’s better than just clicking on another webcomic for all of your villainous weirdo reading!
I can’t help but feel a sense of doom, too.
But that’s what makes any comic exciting!
Bow-bow-Chic-a-WOW-WOW! o.O
…now, the other shoe shall drop, cover your heads! [blinks]
Brown chicken brown cow!
The proverbial other shoe? What might that be? Something good, like Scap winning the lottery? Something bad, like Bone China reenacts a certain scene from “The Crying Game”? What will it be, dear readers?
I WAS going to reference the crying Game, because that would be HILARIOUSLY appropriate for this storyline, but I didn’t want to say anything… just-in-case it was in your mind to do it and I was afraid to be a plot spoiler! I’m laughing over the fact you mentioned it though, its like we’re of… one mind! [blinks]
Egad…sharing a train of thought with Scott is just asking for a derailment of Amtrak proportions! Pull the brakes! EEEEEEEEEE—KABOOM!!!
…sadly, none of the hermaphrodite singers on board the ‘Crying Game’ car survived the carnage.
My gast is flabbered…
I am shocked, shocked!
More shocks to come! I aim to please.
I wonder if Scap can even feel a kiss, since he no longer has flesh on his face or lips.
I’m gonna be mad at you if you interrupt this with somebody breaking in or whatever. V_V
Regarding whether or not Scap could feel a kiss…probably not, but hey, it’s the thought that counts.
Regarding whether or not someone is going to break in…I’m working my eraser as hard as possible to fix next week’s strip. It was going to be a full-cast surprise birthday party, but nooooooo, someone objects!
Well, he still has his tongue…That works. 🙂
Whooo hooo, I ruined a comic strip birthday party! That gives me an evil point! Birthday orgasms trounce parties any day! Scap would agree!
You wouldn’t have liked the piñata, anyway. It kept screaming for help!
YES!!! This is my favorite installment of Scapula yet! You gave us the goods, kind sir, and I certainly appreciate. Exposition, dialogue, and art at its best. Thank you.
If you’re happy, I’m happy, and if I’m happy, then Scap is happy and everyone should be happy! Everyone rejoice! It’s HAPPY TIME! HOORAY!
Holy crap. When did you go off and get popular? Look at all these damn comments. haah Loving it.
Good for Scap…just hope he knows how to use that thing.
Dear boy, I’ve always been this popular! It’s Scapula who’s just getting used to people throwing affection at his feet!
…and say: use what thing? The couch? The coffee table? His mug of cocoa? Explain!
someone else seen the ‘not yet’? please raise hands. ^^
Did I miss something? Someone’s out to baffle me.
well, just read back your own text, dear sir… ;P
Well….. There you have it. Here’s hoping he makes the most of it.
Anyone remember the Emperor in ‘Amadeus’ and his catch-phrase? “Well…there it is.”
At least we won’t have to worry about seeing him naked….. Because he’ll probably still be wearing his mask. Does that thing EVER come off?
Dangit, Dada – I was patting myself on the back the last few weeks, thinking I had it all figured out as to who is after Scap this time. But after this strip – I seriously hope I am wrong. It’s nice to see Scap finally score one for the home team, you know?
Glad you enjoyed, amigo. Every now and then Scap needs to have some bit of luck; otherwise it would just be an endless series of unfortunate events. But hey, some readers have stuck around just for that! You know who you are, ya buncha’ sadists!
I did not hit her.
It’s b******t.
I did not hit her.
I did not.
Oh, hi, Scap.
🙂
So how es yo sex life?
I’m telling you, I did not do it, I did not hit her.
What a story.
Luff es BLOND.
Oh, hi Rob.
YO AH TELLING ME A POT!!!
Awwww…this strip makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Wait a second, what am I SAYING? Scapula isn’t supposed to be heartwarming! Maybe I’m sick and didn’t realize it…
Egad! It’s that awful Lovey-Dovey Virus that’s been going around! Be careful: symptoms include googoo eyes, insipid babble and terms of endearment (i.e. “snoogie-woogie-wips” or “my pweshus widdle wovey-poo”), and finally…empty wallets!
-nooooooo!!!
I hope Scap remembered the breath mints… and the deodorant… and the contracepticles… I can’t imagine what would happen if there was a Baby Scap around. It’s bad enough there was an Inverto that was trying to kill him…
“Baby Scap”…y’know, if I ever do an ‘alternate universe’ storyline, doing the SCAPULA characters in baby-form would probably be a real hoot-and-a-half.
Imagine Nanny’s reaction when Li’l Scapula and Li’l Throgor declare gang war on Li’l Jemini and Li’l Knuckle Sam!
I’m happy for scapula, but I would have liked a FRENCH kiss.
Hey, we Americans are fine kissers! Sure, it tastes a bit more beer-y and maybe there’s more of a rush to get to the good part, but let it never be said American men don’t care for foreplay.
Well…most of us, anyhow…
batman brooding always gets the girls!…wel if you have the build and a flipping billion dollar car…. but im sure its the brooding :p
Well, the billions of dollars and the rock-hard jaw doesn’t exactly turn the women off. Heck, Batman gets ALL the ladies…that is, as long as you ignore Grant Morrison’s theory.
Again, WOW!! The last three panels were so beautiful and subtle. you really know how to use negative space to create the mood!!! Looks like a warm and fuzzy romance is budding for our villan!
Every space around here is pretty negative! Isn’t that right, all you goth readers?
But seriously, I’m glad you enjoyed, Jenn, and here’s wishing warm and fuzzy times for all of you. Yes, even you, goths!
Nothing like a glass of sex to make ones cheeks glow red again!
Sex in a Cup? Y’know, I’ll bet Coke will be advertising that as their new slogan soon enough!
Ladies love the scars. And skull like faces?
Scars can sometimes be a turn-on, provided it’s the right kind. Having a gouged cornea or a sawed-off nose might be a little distracting.
As for the skull face part…hey, that explains how Steve Tyler gets laid! HOO-HOOOOOOOO!
I can’t help but still smell a rat… It just can not be. Scaps luck is bound to run out any minute now.
@Skull like faces… *Rawwr*
…And then Scapula woke up from his wet dream…
Seriously, I can’t believe this is happening. After all his bad luck and “poor, innocent women” he’s traumatized with his clumsy advances, Scap can’t just find a woman who’d really care for him. Katherine (if that IS her real name) is either a really good actress or has the thickest skin this side of the Nethers (Ba-dum-tish!)
Anything is still possible; we’ve got a bit of ways to go into this story, and who knows how things might turn out (ain’t I a sneak?).
As for whatever Scap’s wet dreams may be…yeeeaaaauck. Even I don’t want to think about THAT!
I really don’t know what to write. I have been mulling this over since Sunday. I really just don’t know what to write. I’m part grossed out… and part happy and part grossed out again… and then flabber-ghaspy. Hurry up Sunday.
Hey, someone’s not “Squid Row Mama” anymore! Your secret identity has been revealed!
Grossed out? Well, it’s not like I showed anything graphic (or WILL I? Nya ha haaa!). But hey, don’t let me deter you from feeling what you want to feel. Read the comments above: some folks are happy, some are creeped out, and some mistakenly came to this webcomic when they were trying to find “Squid Row”!
YAh… don’t know how THAT happened… lemmie just say my secret identity is… er… fine. This should fix it… I think… did it? ANyhoo… yah… creeped out…. but in a good way… like everybody else, it seems. Smiles.
Everyone knows you’re really Clark Kent. Whenever he takes off his glasses his shrinks down into a 5′ tall crazy cartoonist woman…Squid Row Mama!
Dear lord, who dripped sickly, brown honey all over this comic strip? What have you done? Oh, the inhumanity!! Scap’s incompetence, I can accept, his ineptitude, I can withstand, but his tongue in Bone China’s mouth, that’s just… EEYEWWWW! But then again, to each his own!
Yick! Get a paper towel, maybe some of those ‘wet-naps’ you get with your fried chicken! Everything’s all sticky- -NOBODY SAY ANYTHING!
But then again, if you don’t like Bone China’s tongue in his mouth, what would you rather- – NOBODY SAY ANYTHING!
bow-wow-chikka-chikka-bow-wow
Sorry, someone had to. 😀
And so we have reached the end of the series “Edgar Scippey’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Love”. Next month begins the brand new series, “That Little Scampula”.
Saaayyyy, was that a Dan Long shout-out? Tuh! Like you’d ever see Edmund Finney in this stupid comic…
“That’ Little Scampula” could be a possible title if I ever bite the bullet and do a ‘Li’l Scapula’ series (God help us all)!
Well done. Great pacing.
Thanks, man!
Well, you have us all truly set up for whatever you have in store for us next Aidan. O.o
I hope this isn’t just a tease and that Scap will at least have his last meal before he dies… Then again you could be playing this straight… Nahhh. :`)
Awww, thank ya. I just hope you’ll stick around until the end…or at least until something good and violent happens.
But Scapula DYING?! Well, anything is possible, but who would take over as the main character of the series? Bone China? Egad! That’s her plan all along!
I’ll be here. lol You hooked me in long ago. Bone China? Groucho Marx mumbles something about not joining a club that would have him as a member. Well. At least he had *some* pride. I know. I’m not making any sense. Nothing unusual.
Crikey! 74 comments! Actually, 75, with this one! A record?
It looks like there’s currently 92 comments on another comic, but who’s counting? Well, other than me, the eternal attention whore!
Keep those comments coming, dear readers!
I was board today and decided to flip through the archive, you know, looking back at this, Bone China looks pretty cute without all of that shit smeared on her face.
Ewww! Someone smeared poopoo on her face?! Yucky!
But seriously, Bone China was originally designed with a much more extreme Goth make-up (in order to make her slightly more resemble Scapula), until I decided to go with the slightly more ‘down-to-earth’ version (well, down to whatever dark and eerie version of earth you think fits…).