05/28/2015
Mel Brooks said the best way to have people ignore you is to be “loud and annoying”, and it looks like it’s worked for Scapula! Keep this fact in mind the next time you’re being selected for jury duty.
So far our villain has escaped berserker bikers, vampiric assassins, and now gun-toting hitmen. What will he encounter next…and will he be lucky enough to survive?
Say what you will about good ol Scap, he sure knows how to survive!
No matter what smelly options he has to take!
I certainly wouldn’t want to get near a gassy old lunatic. I have to say though, I’m happy to see some gonzo silliness betwixt the very dark story.
(betwixt? Who says that anymore? I guess just me.)
Betwixt? Those caramel chocolate candy bars that come two in a wrapper? Mmmm…
Glad I can lighten the load of a dark story with somethin’ ridickerous!
I actually just watched ‘Life Stinks’ a couple weeks ago. Really good.
The ‘loud and obnoxious’ tactic is from High Anxiety; I only saw Life Stinks once and sadly remember nothing from it.
“Blucher!”
*panicked horse noises!*
Brilliant disguise, Scap. Thumbs up.
Now try to keep that thumb clean!
I believe it was a daredevil comic that once had Matt Murdok comment “Ranting like a lunatic….. the best defense for the average city dweller looking to be left alone.”
It can work; I’ve wandered through some bad neighborhoods unscathed by rolling my eyes back and muttering in an intense voice…then again, I’m a 6’2″ man in black, so there’s a slight advantage there.
Of course, I could go anywhere if I remembered all of my Lady Jenn combat advice!
In this case, I think Scap heard the most important bit she always said: Do NOT try to fight firearms!
Weirdly, this disguise had nothing to do with his escape, he just wanted an excuse to fart loudly in public.
Trust me, I’ve lived in enough polluted cities with rude residents to know that no one looks for an excuse to fart loudly anywhere.
I can think of two other reliable adages that cover it too … “best place to hide is in plain sight” and “if you can’t dazzle them with dexterity, baffle them with bullshit”. 😀
And let us not forget, “light a match!”
you know, dragging the pope into the ranting makes it go from plausible to down right absurd. scap needs to be careful. people remember absurd.
then again, the buffoons he has been tangling with has been do not seem to be entirely too competent in the mental department…