GANGWAY pt.15
I’m really not a fan of the new California Academy of Sciences (Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, for those who don’t know). A big part of my childhood was removed forever when the museum was torn down and rebuilt into a more modern, “popular” setting (a “living garden” on the roof! Wwwwooow…what hippie wouldn’t love that?). The majority of my favorite exhibits are either gone or reduced to practically nothing; the African Hall is pathetic compared to its beautiful former counterpart, and the loss of the Gary Larson Hall is enough to make all cartoonists cry. I guess ANY museum is better than nothing, although I refuse to enter the De Young Art Museum across the way, due to its ugly-ass new construction. Hey, I’m allowed to be a crotchety old curmudgeon once in a while!
The “knowitall” describing the jellyfish is a jab at any number of people I overhear at the Zoo giving out horribly-incorrect “facts” about animals. As an amateur zoologist, I get anal-retentively upset when I hear folks making up all sorts of crap about how hyenas are dogs or how pterodactyls are dinosaurs or how all herbivores are safe company because “they don’t eat meat”. Get a copy of ZooBooks, dummies!
Incredible, too, when the knowitalls get so offended and defensive if you dare to correct any of their BS facts. (Thank heavens jellyfish aren’t amphibians – imagine having those stinging tendrils waiting way up on the beach, or crawling to the family pool)
Gotta love the comic world. Dugong acts like two-headed women are commonplace enough, that he would encounter two in such a short period of time.
Is that a gun in his pocket or is he just happy to see me.
Isn’t it hard to create an alternate identity when you have two heads? Maybe one could be a hunchback next time.. haha
Dickweed…LMAO
These people must be uber dense to not see through the disguises that Scap and Jem are wearing. LOL
Great update,
Jim
@Hoomi More often than not the “knowitalls” are parents, and if there’s something a parent really hates it’s being proven wrong!
I don’t think Jemini’s disguise is any more ludicrous than the ones Bugs Bunny used to wear (which would also fool his enemies), but what the hey. Comics is comics.
The world could also use more hot two-headed women. Right, fellas?
You don’t all have to agree at once, y’know…
@Bearman She should take a cue from Inspector Clouseau; aside from the hunchback disguise there’s also the dentist and Tolouse-Lautrec outfits! Brilliant!
@M4dc63nng4n..oh, heck, Jim. It’s a stupid, stupid, stupid world here in the SCAPULA-verse! “Dickweed” seems to be a fairly common last name around these parts.
Jemini looks so scrumptious in that dress with blond hair. I’d bail her out anytime. I like Scap’s disguise. It reminds me of Humpty Hump. 🙂
And a few of those background guys seem like they came straight from the mind of Don Martin. I can tell you’re really enjoying this story arc, Aidan, and I’m lovin’ it right along with you.
Oh c’mon anyone could see it’s Jemini; she has two heads damn it!
You should update more often. In the past, the short stories could go on without often updates but this one is different.
I have been known to butt-in on the dumb parents and correct them right on the spot. Being in the Navy, I once went on a carrier museum and heard the person talking “out of their ass” on things pertaining to carriers and the Navy in general… I totally Pwnd them… I loved looking at their face as they were in shock. Love the disguises.
Of course the world could use more hot two-headed women. After all, if there’s anything that most guys want from women, it’s more…
Um. Never mind. This could get me into more trouble than even Scap could stumble into…
@George Scap’s got the big brown nose, he’s got the big brown nose, he’s got…uh…a tacky green suit!
Thanks as always for your support, George. I don’t know how much I have in common with Don Martin, especially in the onomatopoeia department!
@montecristo Totally agree, but I also have to make a living. It’s always a tough call between making new comics and paying the rent, so I do what I can with the time I’ve got. Here’s hoping that changes soon.
@Roland It’s a tough call. Are we really that much better off correcting the random dumb-bums of the world? I suppose you take them as you call them, although you can tell yourself you’re saving these idiots children from growing up as brainless as their parents!
@Hoomi What most guys want from women is for them to do all the thinking, so a double-headed lady could potentially solve all of the problems whilst you sit and enjoy a beer…until she realizes the solution to the problem is to kick you out!
The alternative, I guess, is a NO-HEADED WOMAN, which has been done by Dadaist/Surrealist Max Ernst, in his proto-graphic novel “The Hundred Headless Woman”.
I didn’t mean to press you or anything. I understand that things are tough for you (same with everyone else nowadays)
The fake eye glasses and nose gag never gets old when it’s done right. …it’s done ever so riiight here! I burst out laughing and now people are “looking” at me…. and I’m okay with that. Everyone knows I’m not quite right!
@montecristo No worries. Everyone’s cool here.
@jynksie Muchas gracias, Scott! Saaay, you’d actually look pretty cool with the “glasses and mustache” disguise. No one would ever know it was you.
Nice. So Scap is going to kill the bastard. And then lemme guess; he’ll accidentally drop the knife on the floor and the police will arrest him; or better yet, he will (accidentally) stab Jennifer; or Alice Cooper shall appear to kill both him and Dugong.
let me just say that I didn’t correct them by being a jerk, which I know there is a fine line with, but I only do it in certain situations. Other than that, I love the expression on Mr. Johnson in panel 3 and I just love the look of the last panel.
@montecristo Well, there goes the surprise ending.
@Roland Who said you were being a jerk? You were being informative and well-mannered! Be proud of that!
I took another look at the Dugong, and only just now I realized that he looks a lot like Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, my favorite character from “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.
I really like the fish you drew in the background. Pretty solid drawings again sir.
@Slug Thank you kindly. Figures a guy who draws comics about whales would appreciate aquatic lifeforms!
Beautiful work (as always, DH) – but, uhhh … where’s Scapula?! And who is this Marvin fellow?! Hahaha! 🙂
::scoffs at aquatic lifeforms::
So what your saying is, I’ve got a head start with the large snoz -eh?!? *smirk*
@SpilledInky …and why are Miley Cyrus and Hannah Banana never seen together? It’s a conspiracy! EVERYTHING’S A CONSPIRACY!!!
@Chris W Oooooohhhh….sick burn at all the marine biologists out there. Watch your back, man! They’re a rough bunch!
@jynksie EXACTLY! And you have COOTIES, too! Nyah nyah nyah NYAH NYAH!
>)
I really need to get a pair of those glasses…
Is the “fish have it made” guy a reference to “The Incredible Mr. Limpet”? 🙂
@evandenoob It gets the ladies’ attention, I will say that!
@Ash I never saw that movie. Is it good? Man, movies about fish have it made…
you know, i actually didn’t finish it. it was cute, but a lil far fetched and very outdated. could have been a classic, possibly, but didn’t seem to make it.
Should have had her put a covered birdcage over one head for a nice hitchhikers guide reference.
Great comic, reading through the archives.
@ljdarten Glad to have another person who enjoys Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy around here! You’ll find the occasional reference sprinkled through-out this comic, so see if you can find them all (and if you can’t, well…don’t panic).
The fish in the far left of the first pannel is a sunfish which cannot be kept in aquariums because they keep running into the glass. You didn’t know this obscure fact which makes you a bad comic writer and a bad person. You are worse than HITLER and you should feel bad.
Big fan!
@AndyMadcap Oh God…oh dear God…MY LIFE IS A LIE!!!! AAAAAAUGH!!!
I TOLD YOU I’D DO THIS! I TOLD YOU ALL I’D SHOOT MYSELF! WHY DIDN’T YOU BELIEVE ME?!! I’LL SHOW YOU ALL!!!
GUH-BYE, CRUEL WORLD!!!
>bang!<
– – – – and that little playlet comes courtesy of the Let's Prove Aidan Wrong foundation, still working to prove Aidan wrong after five decades!
[Incidentally, thank you for the sunfish fact. Next time I go to Steinhart I'll be sure to walk around telling everyone.]
I just discovered this comic today, and am getting caught up… but since no one else said anything, I must express my appreciation for the reference to the (Blood) Countess Erzabet Báthory-Nádasdy de Ecsed.
So far, I’m enjoying myself… it probably helps that I could give an hour-long speech about DaDa (and several other sources for your jokes) off the top of my head…
@UrbanPagan Nice to meet you, and I’m sure glad someone finally noticed the Bathory reference! Jemini may not literally bathe in blood, but it’s a nice metaphor for a gangster woman like herself (kinda’…sorta’….well, okay, you have to stretch things a bit).
Hope you get caught up soon, because one of the upcoming stories will surely please a Dadaphile like yourself!