SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLES FEATURE pt.1
Welcome to the next big story arc of SCAPULA! Now’s the perfect time to be tuning in, so get out that bowl of popcorn and be ready to eat it for the next few months!
Welcome to the next big story arc of SCAPULA! Now’s the perfect time to be tuning in, so get out that bowl of popcorn and be ready to eat it for the next few months!
My, it seems this storyline will be twice the fun of the earlier ones! (sorry for the bad joke, but I couldn’t help myself)
I love those dollar-eyes in the fifth panel. It reminds me of the cartoons I used to watch when I was a kid.
On a totally unrelated note, will we get to see more of Dadaman in the foreseeable future? I kind of liked him.
I already wanna snap this woman’s neck, but that could be that I just hate cheerful people trying to sell things. To me she sounds like a female version of the numbskull that sold those stupid absorbant towels. But there’s more than one of her.
Oh well. Just means more of her to curb stomp in the end I suspect!
Love the interview, Aidan! Good job. I really like today’s comic too. Everything seems so crisp these days. These two chicks are gonna be a handful soon. Wonder how this is gonna tie in to Scapula.
I would probably end up with a smarter duplicate and I would be the one still working while he laid around.
@ToCoWu the First Don’t apologize for making bad jokes…because that’s my job!
@ToCoWu the Second Heck, I should have gone really all-out cartoony and given them huge Tex Avery eyes! They could have howled and pounded tables with chairs at the thought of…well, money, I guess.
Dadaman should be appearing in the storyline following this one, but that wont be until sometime in the fall. Until then, I recommend you check out the ‘Dada Hyena’ comic in the links on the side and catch up with some classic Dadaman idiocy.
Thanks for commenting!
@LadyJenn We don’t see a lot of cheerful people in SCAPULA, do we? Maybe that’s why she’s such a freak. C’mon, Mira Mira, get with the program and be a grouch!
There will be much violence up ahead, I assure you.
@George I was a little reluctant to post the interview, but I guess a cartoonist can only be a recluse for so long. Now the world knows I wear eyeliner and MST3K t-shirts. The secret is out forever.
@Bearman You and me both, man! Heck, we should really swear out a complaint to the company. Damned duplicates think they’re twice as smart as us (hey, ToCoWu, that joke kind of works!)
The idea of lazy people wanting to buy a duplicate to do all thier chores heh, makes sense and would make alot of money.
Just wonder how long things go wrong.
Heh can’t wait to read the rest of the story as it comes out.
Hmm…
I’m thinking if I had twice the me I might be able to get in twice the nap time.
SOLD!
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@Diablo2000 Dude, the day is coming. They’d sell like duplicated hotcakes in this country (which is exactly Mira Mira’s plan).
Things going wrong? Why do you assume that? Is it because Scapula is going to have to appear eventually?
@SpilledInky Just make sure your duplicate knows that it’s YOUR bed and not his! That can get to be a problem fast.
Much violence? Good! I’m holding you to that hun!
i aprove of this logic đŸ˜€
but id never want a duplacite me D:
HE’D KILL ME IN MY SLEEP!!
and than duplicate himselff so that he wont have to do chores…
nope il just wait til the make personalized robots that work for you!
@LadyJenn Lots of violence, guaranteed.
@BarbaricBob Bill Watterson, reflecting on the duplication story he did in Calvin and Hobbes, said, “I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us” (or something like that, I don’t have my copy of the Tenth Anniversary book with me at the moment).
As for robots, I guess they’re easier to manipulate, unless you look at any of the several hundred films and stories when THEY FRIGGIN’ REBEL! Asimov’s Laws, my butt!
Hey, did you just call me a creep!??? ….in your interview… Okay, I will accept the label… and, yes, your stuff is wacky… own it. It’s madcap, even!
Remember that episode of Star Trek with Mudd and his wives? They were all identical and they’d all yell at him! So what if you’re a complainer… and you duplicate yerself…? You’d have to listen to yer stunt double gripe while he/she does the dishes or cleans the john. NO fun. Conversely, if you’re a Snow White, whistle while you work, sorta gal… you’d be singing along with while there’s all this happy joyous…nO NO I couldn’t take it!!!! Stop this madness, Aidan!
But I do like your interview… yer so wacky.
This looks like it is going to be a helluva good storyline. I can’t wait to see who gets duplicated! *Cue the doublemint commercial!
Double your pleasure, double your fun! Congrats on the feature!
@squidrowmommy You’re ALL CREEPS! Every last one of you! Come and get me!
The only “Star Trek” I’ve ever seen is when they went back in time to San Francisco and stole some whales. The episode/movie (?) you’re describing actually sounds like a really funny idea; I may just have to, uh, ‘duplicate’ it. Heh heh heh.
I am familiar enough with ‘Trek’ to know a few of the references; this storyline was originally titled “Mira Mira” until I thought the Rocky Horror thing was funnier (I was wrong).
I hate ‘wacky’. It’s so 90’s. I wish to hell I had thought of another word.
@Roland Oh geez, I’m happier that you referenced the Doublemint commercials instead of ‘The Clone Wars’. I’d rather have Scapula with twin girls on bikes than Jar Jar Binks.
@MarkStokes Oh, so you’re going to make that commercial reference, too?! All righty, let’s all sing along together and get it over with…
The interview was fun, and if any of you out there has a book you would like showcased, check out Comicbooked.com and Nicole Sixx’s section, “Comicbooked Indie Presents”.
The benefits of having a duplicate are nice… but I would hate to have to share all of my stuff!
As with all lucrative adventures in science, this promises chaos.
@JerryBenedict Worst of all would be sharing your spouse; then again, s/he might be into that sort of thing…
@TheMonahan Jeff Goldblum said the same thing in “Jurassic Park”…actually he said it with a lot of stuttering and awkward pauses. But the gist is the same.
wel i dont realy believe in the terminator law….(i mean robots from the future securing their past?) even so dont give robots guns and always keep a magnet close at hand…and make em run on windows or somthing just spam a huge virus and tada no evil revolution đŸ™‚
@BarbaricBob …or have Michael Bay direct them and they’ll be ruined forever!
@DadaHyena My wife probably wouldn’t dig an extra Jerry around the house in that sense, but if he could do the housework, we may share some of our food with him!
I want a duplicate that can go to work for me. I’ll just stay home & do comics. Are we gunna see duplicate Scapulas?
@JerryBenedict Whoa, whoa, whoa, just keep all of that between you and your wife…and the other you!
@TonymcGurk I think I’ve got everyone sold on the idea of duplicates, even the people who admit they would be trouble! Now as soon as I get that Master’s degree in genetic engineering I may be in business.
Duplicate Scapulas? That’s weird.
Duplicate Scapulas would not only be weird, but disastrous. Although I guess that it would solve the problem of getting no attention. He could just try and love himself(/ves)
Oh, hell. Who am I trying to fool?
great new story line. Absolutely awesome with endless possibilities. Enjoyed the promo video too. The book looks great.
@KinarĂ© Thanks for commenting! Your idea reminds me of the three-headed monster on The Muppet Show (the Vincent Price episode) who was going to go into comedy because he could be the comedian, straight man and audience all in one. “That way, no matter how bad we are, we’ll always love us!”
Scapula would just have something new to whine about.
@FrankMHansen Thanks, man! You should make a video on your comic, too. It’d be awesome!
I guess that you are right, although I must, in due shame, admit to be mostly unfamiliar with the Muppet Show.
Yes. I am a sinner.
I must also add that I forgot to add my appreciation for your comic. I like most everything about it. Sometimes I feel bad for Scapula. All he needs is a hug, after all.
But is it not in the pain of others in which we revel? Scapula gives us just that pain we seek.
@Kinare Nobody gets into heaven unless if they love the Muppets. I mean, you need proof that you have a soul!
Glad you appreciate SCAPULA and I’ll do what I can to make sure this story doesn’t disappoint any of my fine, frenzied readers.
dadahyena if michael bay makes the robots no work will ever come out of em :/
i need my soulles laberor to do some work before it starts to revolt đŸ™‚
you know what we need? storm troopers! low pay, HUGE hazzards and they didnt complain ONCE in the entire movie(s) đŸ˜€
BTW – love that establishing panel. Great job on the detail!
@BarbaricBob No, but those guys sure have problems coming through doorways!
@MarkStokes Thanks, man!
yeah they aint all that bright :/
but that makes for EXELENT minions >:D
im gonna look for a bounty hunter that wants to clone himselff a million times đŸ˜€
anny1 know where i can get enough metal to build a moon? đŸ˜®
One of my friends suggested they duplicate me, and all I could do was wonder what kind of horrible world this would be with more than one of me.
Now, if we duplicated say…….. a certain cartoonist, would we get more comics I wonder? That would be a good use of this technology!
@BarbaricBob That’s no moon!
@LadyJenn You can duplicate Berke Breathed all you want, it doesn’t mean you’ll get any more ‘Bloom County’ comics!
Better to rule in hell than to serve in Heaven, dear friend.
Besides- Who needs souls when we have comics?
Good comics, where we can infatuate ourselves with the pain of others.
I would soooo make a duplicate of myself. One of them will be a work and the another at home watching TV. I wish I was the latter đŸ˜‰
@Kinare You can quote Milton, but you’d have better luck quoting Milton Berle around here!
I don’t know where I stand on the debate of Souls vs Comics; that will all come when I get the opportunity to sell out.
@alecho Flip a coin or take turns? It could happen, just as long as both of you keep to the system…or until one decides to be the ‘top duplicate’. Then there’s trouble.
Seem to have yer head screwed on straight, man (compared to some artists I’ve met). Couldn’t tell if you were wearing eyeliner or if you simply have permanent dark sockets like yours truly though.
I just had an amusing thought. All the #1 fan girl would have to do to keep Scapula around forever would be to promise to marry him when she grew up!
@Treike Thankyuh kindly! Regarding my eyes, it’s a little bit of both: I’ve pulled enough coffee-fueled all-nighters to give my eyes that lovely “hollow socket” look that every zombie dreams of (le sigh!).
Did you read the book? She already has a surefire way to keep him around (and it’s not just the sledgehammer to the legs).
Scientific process goes BOINK?
@Ducklets If your duplicates ever run amuck, you can always use the transmogrifier box to turn them into worms!
I know this is getting pretty old, but I just re-discovered Scapula and I’m re-reading until I catch up.
Yes, to panel 3! Finally, somebody understands the real problems with cloning. Too bad our “happy” scientist (she’s certainly NOT mad! Or even disgruntled.) doesn’t understand the problems with duplication. But I guess that’s why she’s a villain.