06/02/2013
For the unacquainted: Mira Mira is referring to events that occurred in the SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLES FEATURE story arc. Knuckle Sam’s lament over Jemini’s death is seen in THE JEMINI KILLER.
For the unacquainted: Mira Mira is referring to events that occurred in the SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLES FEATURE story arc. Knuckle Sam’s lament over Jemini’s death is seen in THE JEMINI KILLER.
Panels 5 and 6 are just priceless.
Maybe flooring it isn’t such a good idea, now that the team have lost their muscle.
Or perhaps we’ll finally be able to see what Miss Miserable can do, other than drive like an old woman.
Also, I’d like some clarification on Crybaby’s presence. Namely, is it the same woman as the original, why has she joined, and what the hell is Jeraukov thinking, letting her in the group?
Glad you liked 4 and 5! I like to remind folks at times that this strip is still a comedy or semi-comedy…dramedy? Isn’t that a camel with one hump? No, that’s a dromedary…where was I? Oh, right.
Sam may be gone, but maybe they have a back-up measure. Perhaps Little Miss is a fighting psycho when unleashed?
As for Crybaby, this is still Irene Farley, even if she hasn’t said much to convey that (she’s still “in character” right now). Whether or not this was Irene or an imposter doesn’t have much effect on the story, so it’s not a plot point I chose to dwell upon.
They already named those: Dramatic comedy.
And, indeed, Mrs. Farley looks like she is gonna stab all the rest of the group with that crazy pose in the van’s corner.
Well, no way THAT wasn’t a tactical error, driving the muscle out of the group…
Perhaps, but they did also toss out the most emotionally unstable and ‘most likely to pummel her own teammates’ candidate. Maybe chalk this up as a ‘tactical loss’?
I would say that evens the scales, but Mona already outmatched the entire team, sooo….
That gives the rest of her team time to sit on the sidelines, maybe make some sandwiches, check their Facebooks, etc!
She’s got such pretty, expressive eyes. I wish she was that devoted to me. Did she not get that bouquet of freeweights I sent her??
She played “she loves me, she loves me not” with them, but ended up flinging the weights around and knocking out the neighbors!
*facepalm*
They just lost the tank. This leaves an overly intelligent trio of idiots, a knife murderer with no kills to her credit, Mona, and Little Miss Miserable (who enjoys her some acid but otherwise is unknown).
Oh, yeah, good job team. Incidentally, this is why women can’t ever be allowed to rule the world. We don’t work well in groups for long before we drive each other insane or begin getting petty and stupid.
If nothing else, it seems like both sides are evenly matched now, both having lost their biggest brawlers. Who can say who will be lost next (or who else might show up)?
As far as ruling the world goes, I think whether it’s men or women in charge, humanity needs a BIG change soon or we’re all gonna end up dead. “Petty and stupid” sums up a pretty big percentage of the human race!
I would like to extend a great thank you, hun. After having to beat down some drunk jackass and his pals (in the process taking a bottle to the head and a pool cue across the back), I start to get a little blue at times you know? Suplexing some lightweight over the bar and elbow-smashing the main ‘tough’ guy’s face through a table isn’t easy when you’re tired, hurting, and half your knuckles are numb. And when you’re getting stitches in and beer bottle shards out of your scalp, it’s easy to think the world sucks.
Then I come home, read some comics, and go ‘At least I don’t work with these morons!’. Ah, I feel so much better!
As for the petty and stupid thing…… yep, guilty as charged. Maybe it’s the concussion talking, but really, I know I wouldn’t last in a group like this either! Well, unless I was being paid. On the job I can ignore anything.
Apparently including a bottle to the skull.
Hey, anything I can do to cheer something up (even better when it doesn’t require more than typing up some silly comments)!
If the comics make your days better, then they’re still doing the same job they did so well back in the newspaper days: a good dose of jokes, art, and storytelling to offset the rot of the work-a-day world.
I don’t know if that’s enough to alleviate the pain of a bottle to the skull, but it’s a start.
Jenn won’t be back for a day or two, but do trust she’ll be reading your comic still. I’ve been drafted into sending the following note for your collective amusement. *A-hem*
‘Having been challenged to a fight by some chinese chick with a chip on her shoulder, I’m not going to be around hun. Trevie will be taking dictation. Official count, I got socked about 150 times and I’m going to be laid up a while. So, with half my fingers screwed up I won’t be saying much just now, but I’m here! Watching. Reading. Haunting. STARING INTO YOUR SOUL!
No terrible harm but I’m going to be goofed up on painkillers for a bit, so, I’ll have to retro-comment in a few days. I’LL MISS YOU ALL! (Except Bombastar and that Casserly guy)
PS: Wasn’t all bad, I only hit her about eleven times but I dislocated her jaw and threw her through a window. I didn’t expect to win by a long shot (she’s a pro tourney type), but hey, now she can’t brag about it all!’
Good Lord…well, let’s all say a prayer for Lady Jenn’s speedy recovery, and hope that we can all learn that peace and harmony is pretty nifty. Now that she’s gone, we’re faced with a major dilemma: who’s going to provide random combat advice and regale us with bar-fighting epic tales?
Seriously, get well soon.
I never saw any of the Mira-Miras so angry! Not even when they were kicking the crap out of each other in their dilemma of love versus science (Do clones have an afterlife? Actually, does the afterlife exist in the Scapula world*?)! What made them change so much?
And why didn’t they tell her about her loved one being not-dead several weeks ago, when Little Miss Miserable found herself partially crushed by Knuckle Sam’s self-consolatory bear hug?
*”I’ll leave that up to the reader.” is for cowards! Pick a side!
Cowardly, eh? Well, Silly, if that’s the case I say I will answer ALL of your questions and statements!
1) The Mira Miras are angry! Maybe not as angry as the other Mira Miras who were despondent over losing their duplication racket, but still…ANGRY!
2) Clones don’t get to go to heaven if pets don’t. Write a letter to the church, folks! We need to change this if Scrappy and Mew-Mew are going to get to those Pearly Gates!
3) We haven’t followed any of the dead characters’ souls beyond the grave, so to that inquiry I respond with a firmly decisive ‘I Don’t Know’!
4) These three Miras have probably grown a bit different after being away from the rest of “the hive” after so long. Maybe not by much, but they don’t have the security of several hundred other Miras watching their backs and that’s bound to make them a little more wary.
5) Why they didn’t tell Sam about her beloved Jemini is simple: they all hate Sam. What do they care if she ever finds her or not? Well, if it means shutting her up, then maybe it IS worth it after all. Looks like it worked, too!
So there you go. Pick a side? I’ll have mashed potatoes and broccoli!
WOW, things went better than expected there! Maybe if I keep calling you mean things you’ll give me all the Scapula books? An idiot like me can dream!
You more than deserve all the mashed potatoes and broccoli of the world forever!
Here you go, with extra maple syrup and salt! Because I love you!
A lot!
Who knows, maybe syrup works on mashed potatoes? I never thought chicken and waffles would be a palatable combo until just recently, so here’s to more experimentation in the kitchen (yes, even THAT kind of ‘experimentation’…I know by now how many of my readers are pervs).
As for the ‘free’ book, hey, they’re only ten bucks a pop. That’s practically giving them away! Right, folks?
“I know by now how many of my readers are pervs”
You rang?
“I know by now how many of my readers are pervs”
Hm? Yes? I thought someone called…
Great…now my readers are turning into “McPoyles”…
In my case, that would be Lurch that I was quoting, which I figured to be even more appropriate for this. 😉 Forgot you can’t use html symbols in here so part of my last post got eaten, it was supposed to be like:
(voice_lurch) You rang? (\voice_lurch)
Gosh, Dada, reading your replies to comments is almost as entertaining as reading the comic itself!
Oh geez, now I’m on the spot to write something clever! Ummm, okay, let’s see here: these two guys walk into a bar…no, that one sucks….okay, a priest, a rabbi, and a pimp….no, that’s no good…okay, this farmer wants to bring his chicken into a movie theater and then…nuts, I forget how that one goes.
Well, great! So much for that! Good night, folks.
A farmer tries to get one of his chickens into a movie theatre. The guy from the ticket booth notices this and asks: “Why would you ever try to get a chicken inside a cinema?”
The farmer replies: “Beak-ause I wanted to see a “Chicken Run”, sir.”
The guy from the ticket booth responds to this by saying: “An endeavor most fowl!”
And the farmer says: “I had an indigestion last night so great, that I cluck-ed the toilet!”
Wow….that’s one worthy for the ages!
Truth be told, the ‘farmer and the chicken’ is a real joke (‘real’ as in ‘real old’); I’ll let you all find it for yourselves. It’s funny the first time you hear it.
Well, at least the fantasy will keep Sam under control for a while…
Mira, Misery, and Crybaby should be able to keep things on their side…which is a shame, really. The more I see of the Coven, the less I remember why Scap and the SMDL are the villains. Ah, desensitization without weed…lengthy, but healthier…and then there’s the whole legal thing.
I gotta wonder, the only thing that bound Jeraukov’s Merry Menkillers together was a common ‘foe’ in Scap…so what after they have him? Somehow, I get the feeling that it might be their different ideas about how to deal with him (dissection, castration, possibly sodomizing him with a barbed-wire baseball bat) that might spark the Coven to blow at each other. Jeraukov should know villains can’t cooperate for long…
Group dynamics have never been especially strong in SCAPULA, whether it’s between leadership and subordinates (the Miscreants killed their boss) or between individual members. Maybe I just don’t have enough familiarity with a positive working group, although I chalk that up to being raised in a most dysfunctional family!
As for what exactly the Coven will do if/when they achieve their goals, well, that all depends on what the good Doctor has in mind for her crew.
Considering her hatred for criminal types, I predict a double cross.
“What we’re you expecting? The Red Cross?” -Phyllis Diller in Mad Monster Party?.
Hmm… I wonder if this little cabal will fall apart before they even get to Auntie’s house?
As long as the van doesn’t fall apart! Man, that would be a sucky plot twist, huh?
Sam’s not the brightest brass knuckle, is she?
She was smart enough to get away from the rest of those meanies!
Ol’ Knuckles is pretty thick-headed, ain’t she? I’d hate to be her tutor.
She probably dropped out of school, a decision that was rejoiced by every teacher and guidance counselor who knew her!