BONE CHINA pt.14
For you dear readers who are getting antsy over when something is actually going to happen, rest assured next week’s strip is going to be a real blast! Kicking, screaming, smoking, toking action! Would I lie to you?
For you dear readers who are getting antsy over when something is actually going to happen, rest assured next week’s strip is going to be a real blast! Kicking, screaming, smoking, toking action! Would I lie to you?
oww early are we?
and why do plots go trough my head all of a sudden..must be my immagination
Plots go through your head? What sort of plots? Perhaps you’re a budding playwright, with many tales of wit and whimsy ready to flow from your crowquill pen!
Get thee to your desk, and show that fop Tennessee Williams how to really tell a story!
Is plots anything like trots?
Only if it’s a plot against Trot…sky. Uh…damn it, it’s too early in the day for me to try and be clever.
Just read the entire thing from first to current, and with all this fresh knowledge of your writing style, I’m still not certain if I should be expecting the traditional twist that’s heavily foreshadowed , or a double twist where it’s not as it seems, or a triple twist where that’s what you’re trying to make people think. Maybe I’m overthinking this, maybe, or maybe you’re just an evil genius.
You have no idea how flattering it is to be accused of preparing to double-cross my readers (as for the ‘evil genius’ part…well, maybe ‘distempered mind-wanderer’ is more apt). Perhaps I’ll REALLY pull a fast one and we learn that Scapula’s been dead all of this time and only Bone China can see him!
In any event, thanks for commenting and I hope you’ll follow along to the grand conclusion, which will have more twists upon twists than M. Night Shyamalan’s “Twizzlers: The Movie” (soundtrack by Chubby Checker).
There are so many touches in this comic that I love. First, I love the White Zombie tee Scap is rockin’. I like the way he just breezed past Bone’s “I’m a musician” line. That was such a guy thing. 🙂 I also love his renewed criminal spirit. I hope his plans cover interference anyway.
The “White Zombie” shirt was actually taken from a movie poster for the 1932 Bela Lugosi film ‘White Zombie’ (this is where Rob Zombie took his band’s name from). The difference between the movie and the band is that one is in the public domain and one isn’t…no one can sue me over using this T-shirt pic!
Maybe if Scap was paying more attention he’d notice the trouble on the horizon…but maybe he prefers being blind and happy. Hey, works for most of us guys!
Love that movie. Easily Lugosi’s best performance after Dracula.
Extremely great performance by Lugosi, but I might say it’s outdone by two of his other roles: Vitus Werdegast in “The Black Cat” and Ygor in “Son of Frankenstein”, in my own humble opinion. Still, Murder Legendre is one spooky badass I wouldn’t want to cross!
I liked White Zombie, too. I like to pull it out when anyone wants to talk about George Romero’s movies–no, he did NOT invent zombies, he just came up with his own version of them.
Not only did he not invent zombies, he didn’t even use that term to describe his walking corpses in Night of the Living Dead; they were called ghouls, which is actually somewhat appropriate (although I don’t know if the traditional ghoul of folklore was necessarily a dead person).
Voodoo zombies are a much different breed than the flesh-eating rotting barf-fests we know today; although they were certainly capable of murder, the real terror from voodoo zombies wasn’t necessarily being killed by one as becoming one. Getting torn apart is one thing, but imagine having to work your pasty cold butt off for all eternity!
Please explain the term “seppo slab.” Thank you.
Roughly translates as “American beer”, which to the Australians is like making love in a canoe: “It’s f__king close to water!”
Here is the sad thing. Bone and her gang are so pitiful they have to try and one up Scap.
Could be worse; imagine if these crooks were trying to outdo that guy in the bear costume!
Rejection makes a man more hungry. That bear guy is a big success in Germany. Just like the HOFF>
Now THERE’S a story that practically writes itself!
Omg, I love the last three panels! It reminds me so much of my late night in front of the computer…Looking forward to the next strip, DadaHyena!
Aww, thankyew Jenn! I’m sure you were being a lot more productive than these punks; chances are they had porn streaming before the Troubleshooter called in.
Hrm. Did I miss seeing that name before, or did you just inadvertently reveal a name? 😀
???
Now I’m confused…and if you can baffle me, you’re doing your job right!
You referred to the shadowy mystery guy as the Troubleshooter, that’s what I was referring to. I don’t remember their name being mentioned before, so was wondering if I missed something, or if you had let slip a bit of knowledge to us.
Or, knowing you, another rope-a-dope. 😛
If Scap gets any more excited he’s gonna snap that No. 2 into… two… No… 2’s… er…
🙂
As long as he doesn’t get so excited he drops a #2! Hey, I’ve seen doggies who do that…
Ah… Dull Laptops… the economical PC choice for Miscreants everywhere!
‘Economical’ in that they stole it. Hey, the five-finger discount still gets a jerk a lot these days!
GWS was actually how I found your comic, buddy. I was so impressed by the art style that I just had to follow the link to Scapula.
Anyways, looks like China hasn’t kicked Scapula out yet, but I can see it as being only a matter of time. It’s pretty obvious she’s got some ulterior motive even if she ain’t the Miscreants’ boss. I fear ol’ Edgar is only flying high to crash hard(er). A toast to Scapula – ALttS (first prize to the reader who guesses what that abbreviates)…
That was the funny thing; the first time around, even with my guest work buried amongst the others I still ended up getting a good bit of traffic from GWS, so I didn’t really mind not being given a ‘solo day’. It looks like a few readers from Corsetto’s comic have stuck with me since then, so I thank you very sincerely.
Ooh, anagram guessing game! Let’s see…”ALttS”…um….
‘Abraham Lincoln took the Salt?’
‘Artichokes Look tasty to Sloths?’
‘Aaaaugh! Lions tore the Sofa!’
…and that’s all I got. Man, I’m no good at this!
I read GWS too, but for me it was actually SquidRow that led me to Scapula. Go figure, there, I would be hard-pressed to find two more divergent storylines to link together. o.O
Dada posted over there, Brig was gushing a bit about his art style, so I figured if Brig liked it, was worth at least a peek … so I added scapula to my “to-do” list. Month or so later it’s turn came around and I checked it out. Now it’s on my weekly reading list. 😀
Which, BTW, is why I might be a bit late sometimes in replies … I read it at work 12a-2a-ish on mondays when I do my catchup on my weekly reading (should see my list – I have it broken down to dailies, weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies, current archive catchups, and list of new ones to check out – plus NSFW ones I have to check out later, at home). Though I do try to remember to peek in during the week if I posted something, see if anyone replied and wondering why Io am silent … just get tied up sometimes. Sowwies.
I’ll give it the old college try:
A Letter to the Sky
Arab Licensing and Technology Transfer Society
Any Language takes the Sign
ALTernative t-Shirts
Oh, wait. I never finished college!
Keep ’em coming, folks! More fun than Mad Libs!
Agonising Lethal terror-tarnished Lollipop
Astounding Liason to the Lady
Agricultural Leguminosae terrassing the Lavalands
Amen. Love to the Lord
Allied Lowlives trampling through Lakes
…?
Woops, were’d that second L come from… O.o
ALtts – “Another Lamb to the Slaughter”
Oh…well, actually that DOES make the most sense!
…and here I thought “Avocado Lotion to the Sinuses” was the secret answer.
Enjoy these love-fueled moments of crystal clarity while you can, Scap. That’s all I’m gonna say! Still, I can’t shake this gnawing feeling that Bone is up to something!
Happy you enjoy Scap’s pleasant frame of mind! Why, at this rate, he’ll be doing crime for a good cause, like Robin Hood or most popular rappers!
Better hope none of my family is at the bluegrass fest…. that’s too many shotguns for anyone to deal with safely!
Looking forward to some serious stomping hun! (Sorry, in a rush today!)
You think YOU’RE in a rush? I can’t wait to unleash next Sunday’s strip to all of you!
Although I wouldn’t expect good ol’ God-fearin’ Southern folk at this festival…
Loved the Guest Strip! GWS is crazy good!
Yerp-a-derp-derp!
Some people on the internet pay a lot of money for creative diarrhea.
Allow me to respond with the following statement (a-hem):
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUCK!!!!