06/16/2013
The last panel works best with sound effects, namely a huge explosion and Goofy screaming. “YAAAAAAAAH-hoo-hoo-hooey!”
The last panel works best with sound effects, namely a huge explosion and Goofy screaming. “YAAAAAAAAH-hoo-hoo-hooey!”
What a lovely time to come back, with enough pain killers to level the Rolling Stones’ drummer and four ribs hanging by a thread!
………
Wait. Nobody realized that in a helmet like that Bombastar could pack in enough high grade explosives to take out the building?
Remember people. You do NOT tempt fate when someone starts threatening with explosives. They’re easy to get, unpredictable in power, and people don’t need a whole lot of excuse to hit the critical point (even if they didn’t want to later).
Now, should you ever find yourself flying through the sky and coming in for a high speed hit, protect your head and try to hit flat and roll with it. It spreads the impact out and helps burn out the kinetic energy. Of course….. you’re likely to already be badly injured so it’ll probably kill ya, but wierder things happen.
Tuck and roll, Scap!
Alas poor Bombastar. We hardly knew ye, and did not hate you as much as you deserved.
Hey, look who’s back! Here’s hoping you didn’t rough the other guy up TOO badly (I forgot what happened, but I’m assuming it was violent).
Looks like Mona and her crew learned that lesson the hardest way you can: mess with the guy with a bomb and you end up getting bombed. That should be the simplest form of logic of all, but maybe they’re all just idiots.
I don’t plan on being blown up any time soon, but I’ll keep that advice in mind. You never know when Crazy Harry is lurking about…
I got challenged to a fight by some chinese tournament fighter. She hit me 144 times. I got her like, 11. She’s looking for a rematch since I dislocated her jaw and threw her through a window.
Glad to see I came back to a bang! Yes, yes, hurl those tomatos, that was low.
Yikes! Don’t try that at homes, folks…well, those of you who have tournament fighters in your homes.
And don’t throw tomatoes at them!
Nuke ’em from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Yeah, yeah, it’s an overused line. But it also works.
It works if you’re George C. Scott in ‘Dr. Strangelove’!
Well, that’s the end of the comic, then.
Nothing more for me to do here!
Every day after is just going to be the same panel of Scap’s charred body. May not be too exciting, but I only have to draw one panel and copy and paste it forever after!
So no burial, clean up, or at least a visit from Ms. enthropy?
Scapula really wasn’t very popular around town, it seems.
There might be a surprise comic where a dog comes by and piddles on his corpse.
So, same ol’ same ol’, except this time he’s dead.
I have to wonder about the guy who sold him the explosives, who sells stuff that potent when you can simply cheat the guy.
Good question; perhaps there really ARE good vendors out there who care about selling the best quality merchandise to all of their customers.
…that would seem to be the perfect segue into talking about my new book collection on sale now, but there’s already a big obnoxious banner link next to these comments!
So … all these people die? End of Scapula ? Shall I bother to come back ?
Of course! Still plenty of pain and suffering ahead. Wouldn’t want to miss that, right?
Not like we lost too many important people…… the really entertaining folks were in the attic so they probably survived!
“plenty of pain and suffering ahead …” : It’s rather the obsessional / extreme psychologycal behaviors linked to extreme situations that are interesting!
From the very beginning, I wondered just what would happen if he lit that fuse…
Everyone is just glaring like “yeah, right” and only Scap’s wide eyes seem to anticipate something big.
Just where did Bombastar cram that much explosive material anyway? Up his backside?
Here’s hoping our favorite skull-faced moron survived!
That big dumb helmet apparently served its purpose; perhaps it was packed tight with explosives in preparation for ‘The Big Day’.
As for Scapula, did he survive? Is he alive? Tune in for the next comic to find out!
…or just read this: yes.
That explosion is so well done. I can almost feel the heat and I half expect to feel a concussion at any minute along with the sound. Scapie flying thru the air is a nice little amusement. I don’t know why I am reminded of that Loonie Tune cartoon where Daffy is trying to audition for a show with an exploding act but he can only do it once.
It’s a digital painting based on photo reference of an atomic explosion; I tried to make it look more realistic for the sake of humorous contrast. I think it’s funnier that way (as opposed to drawing a really ‘cartoony’ explosion), but maybe that’s up for debate.
Looney Tunes, of course, knew that if you’re going to blow something up, do it BIG and LOUD. My only regret is that I have yet to add sound to these comics (well, except for that motion comic I did…).
Shazam, you made my comic come to life. Now when I read it I will hear voices, ones that don’t usually talk to me.
If it was MY comic, you’ll be hearing lots and lots of screaming, whooping, and hollering!
Yeah, I should have warned about the volume…
“We’re finally save here in the attic from that psycho Mo-“
KABLOOIE!!!
Another alternative is the classic tempting of fate: “We may be in a bad spot now, but at least no one is going to blow us up…”
With Scap’s luck so far you’d think he’d do well as a daredevil, And THEN he’d get all the girls. As long as his own life and limb is at risk. But buy a thousand lottery tickets and he’d be lucky to win a tenner.
That seems to sum up Scap’s luck rather well, methinks! He may get beaten up an awful lot, but he somehow survives the REALLY bad stuff. Thanks for commenting!
He has the market cornered on “Deadly experiences that one does not simply walk away from”. And always appears a few comics later brooding as ever. That kind of luck doesn’t happen every day. Or… Wait. It does. Since it happens to him every day… Oh well my point is made in any case.
Wow that is classicly beautiful final panel. What the hell was scap doing waiting around?
There was one especially hot derby girl that he couldn’t take his eyes off of…that, and she had him in a wrist-lock.
So all this time the EmoBomber was using his supposed failures to lull them all into a false sense of security, making sure they wouldn’t run when he actually lit the fuse, expecting a failure as always.
Brilliant!
(yeah, I know, trying to give the guy SOME credit, even it’s just for a happy accident he gets to cash in on)
The thing is, if you go back and read over this storyline, picking up on all the small clues and hidden details in the background, you will be completely surprised to learn that Bombastar was indeed a whiny dope with explosives stuffed in his helmet and a decisive if not properly planned goal of self-destruction.
That’s called good writing, people! I’m out!
I think we’ve now established that the Human Bomb has the most counterproductive superpower ever. Effective, though.
Hey, maybe that’s why Toxsick suggested him. The ‘Human Bomb’ offers a tactical advantage and can be a huge benefit (except to himself, of course).
And you don’t need to share the loot after he’s done his part!
@Abel;
Just like Jeff Dunham’s puppet Walter says, “Betcha can’t do that again! Dumb@$$ . . .”
Ahkmed had a ‘premature detonation’. “SILENCE! I KEEL YOU!”
*watches Scap fly past overhead*
Wow. He actually DID it.
I have no idea why I have a new respect for the now late Bombastar, but I do.
Thankfully Scap has the benefit of never needing to wear a helmet while on a motorcycle (if he knows how to ride one)…or in this case, flying through the air after the ultimate Emo explosion.
As for the rest of him that isn’t encased in hard plastic: I hope ya land on something soft, Scap!
And I bet you all thought he was just going to go on talking about it forever! Well, here’s to actually taking care of business (even if said business is blowing yourself to smithereens).
I’m not sure if Scap has actually been caught of a bigger catastrophe than this (although plummeting through the bay bridge in a giant robot might be a tier), but hopefully he lands on the neighbor’s outdoor trampoline!
Given the point blank blast here, I would have to say that this is probably the worst he’s had it EXCEPT for Jemini knifing him. That was pretty bad, and could have been very fatal. With Scapula’s luck I dare suggest he’ll manage to at least stagger from this one (he had some pretty burly people to soak the blast for him, after all!)
If you think about it, it takes one helluva sack to walk around with a bomb strapped to your head. Bombastar was either super brave or super crazy!
Maybe both, along with Super Fed Up with his sister’s crap. He may have waited for decades before he actually did something about it, but hey, better waaaaaay late than never!
What a way to wipe those ugly looks off those faces, down with bullying! I hope Mona had a few fleeting seconds of regret. She thought that he’d never do anything and then KABLOOEY! love the last panel!
I wouldn’t really recommend victims of bullying go exploding themselves (even if you are wiping out some a-holes in the progress), but for cartoons it isn’t so bad an option. Well, if they’re “immortal” cartoon characters like the Looney Tunes or Tom & Jerry who routinely survive such atrocities…Bombastar, sadly, did not go to the Chuck Jones School of Cartoon Violence!
Reminds me if the end of that Daffy Duck/Bugs Bunny cartoon where Daffy blows himself up for an audience… when bugs says “they want more!” Daffy responds “I know … But I can only do it once!”
I think my favorite Looney Tunes explosion is the one that ends on Elmer Fudd stuck holding a bomb. Just as the shot irises out and the familiar Warner Bros logo and ending theme music starts it’s suddenly rocked by a loud explosion, causing the whole screen to shake. Classic!
Scap being tossed like a muppet… it amuses me! [smirk] …love his silhouette in that flaming ball of boom!
There was an episode of The Muppet Show that ended with Kermit, hiding from Piggy, taking refuge in Statler and Waldorf’s theater box. When he pleads to them, “If you let me hide here I’ll give you free tickets to the next show!” they hurl him off of the balcony.
Muppet tossing is always good for a laugh!
Walk softly, and carry a big wick! That last panel levels about any webcomic panel I think I’ve ever seen! Nice!! Duck and cover, Scap!
Thanks, Mark, and ten points for the pun! Ouch!
I hope La Bomba is fini… what a whiner… Nice last panel there… Kablooie!
Dead as a doornail, assuming said doornail exploded and took out the house it was nailed into!
Oooooh, evil minion go BOOM!
House go BOOM! Everyone go BOOM! WAAA HA HA HA HAAAA!
Hahahaha! That is like my favorite “money-shot” face ever! And then the ka-boom, eh? Lovin’ it, A.
Thanks, man! A little carnage goes a long way.
Just a writing note, I loved the Bombastar character, even if you intended him as a throwaway.
I think it would be funniest of all if even he survived the explosion, and ended up even more lousy and emo and filled with rage. Who knows, maybe he’s a mutant or something.
That would be pretty funny…too bad he’s dead as a post!
Man, where did that phrase come from? Can you imagine if a post were to suddenly spring to life?
This is a retroactive post, but seems the best place for it–I realize we haven’t seen Mona since this page, and it’s made me curious about how she will react to her brother’s death (and I do hope he’s dead–a character surviving their own multi-megaton suicidal rage explosion just seems… unforgivable). I think it would actually be very interesting to see her really crushed by pushing her wimpy brother over the edge, and maybe even push her into being a darker, more complex character…wait, what am I saying??
Bombastar is absolutely dead. Mona’s fate is unknown for now, although it may be a while before that issue is cleared up.
If or when she ever does return there will probably be plenty for her to be angry about. Maybe she will have changed and be vengeful over her brother’s treatment, or maybe she’ll be the same old self-righteous Mona. Either one spells trouble!