Glad to know you’re on board! Now let’s see if you regret riding this spooky train all the way to the end of the line…will we end up in Revelation Town or Stupid Endingville?
I’m a professional storyteller. People pay me to tell folktales and I’ve told a few about La Llorna. But DAMN that’s way scarier than anything I’ve ever done! LOVE the hands!
Hey, thank you kindly Michael! There’s always a good batch of scary-as-hell stories to keep with you in the event of a sudden campfire (it happens), and the tale of La Llorona is a treasured chestnut of fear-filled foofernannery.
Not sure if this one will last until Halloween (I might have something special in store for that…), but in any event this should give you a good dose of early trick-or-treat jitters.
…and hey, share that Everlasting Popcorn with the rest of us! You stole it from Willy Wonka, you can afford to be generous!
No connection whatsoever between the two characters (that’s what I get for having two ‘goth girl’ characters introduced one after the other), but maybe you’ll grow to love Crybaby. Well, if you love seeing idiot kids getting whisked away you might.
Yikes!
I hope she takes out the foul-mouthed Rayray… get’im, Scary Mexican-legend, scary person!
Dada… just how does your censoring system work?… a@s is okay, b*tch is okay… F&ck and the n-word got the line?…. wha-Huh? Artists…
The censoring gets complicated; I think “bitch” was censored in SCAPULA for a very long time. I don’t know if this is the first time I’ve let that one slip by uncensored, but it’s not a word I like to use myself.
Ass is everywhere now, so there’s no point wiping one out (….uh….moving on…). Both F-words and the N-bomb get bleeped, because those ones piss off the most people. The S-word, too, although I don’t think anyone really gets offended by that one so much anymore.
Tell that to every kid I used to ride the bus with. If only they knew what it really meant (but there’s memes circulating now to create awareness on just how stupid of a fashion it really is).
Gods, I know. I saw someone in town doing it with no shirt on this week and I wanted to tell them.
Haha, I also like those “anatomy of a thug” memes, where the skeleton has inch long legs.
Love those hands! Great hands, memorable hands!
I remember as a kid I decided all the best scary animated films had great “spooky hand scenes” in them – The BFG when the giants are reaching in through the windows to steal children… Flight of Dragons when the villain is doing something wizardy.. Phantom Tollbooth when some other villain is doing something scary.
Proving I just remember hands better than the content of films.
Hands done in the style of the legendary Steve Ditko. Learn from the masters, folks!
What is BFG an abbreviation for? I get the feeling it’s something I’ve seen a million times, but right now my brain isn’t picking up acronym wavelengths very well. It’s been a long Sunday.
There’s plenty of scary hand scenes in films; my mother always told me about the scariest film she ever saw as a kid, “The Beast With Five Fingers”, about a living severed hand that goes around strangling people (I guess…well, the film wouldn’t be very interesting if it just snapped its fingers or went around picking people’s noses).
BFG is just BFG (in the books it’s explained as Big Friendly Giant).. An amazingly warped 80’s film based on a Roald Dahl book. You probably have seen it!
It would be so nice if your comic would feature one day the the popobawa monster. Look at the paragraph “Description and behaviour” of wikipedia, it’s fascinating.
As a child I wasn’t told stories about ghosts to make sure I stayed inside; I was told about the neighborhood gangs and the muggers who would kick the shit out of me if I went out.
When I was a kid, we’d play ghost in the graveyard, it was like hide and seek, but in a cemetery! …. thats as bad as my childhood gets. Playing in a field of dead people trying to make others pee themselves in the dark!
…I only bring up the peeing their pants story becuz I’m sure this loud mouthed brat up there is doing just that in his pantaloons right now!
Graveyards are no big whoop. I don’t mean to disrespect the dearly departed, but I’ve never really had any huge reverence for cemeteries other than that they’re nice, quiet little places. My mother actually used to teach me how to drive for the first time in a cemetery, since you could just drive around the paths and not have to worry about other cars running into you.
As for ‘kids peeing their pants’ stories….man, I’m sure everyone here has got a doozie or two to share (that’s ‘doozie’, not ‘doodie’…although kids do THAT in their pants as well).
Before anyone out there cares to misinterpret that statement, keep in mind that it came from the crazed mind that created Sociak Vermyn. Check it out yourself and maybe you WILL see someone riding a goat-sucker!
The eyes in the 6th panel freaked me out. I’d be screaming like an infant if I saw just a figure with red glowing eyes peeking at me. Rayray was braver than I would have been.
Can’t say it was nice knowing ya, ya foul-mouthed kid.
And how! My old pets had eyes that glowed (well, when you photographed them they did) and Lord knows I would never mess with a bunch of bratty animals!
Mark! You watch that filthy language, young man! Going around shouting “fudge” all willy-nilly like some ne’er-do-well ragamuffin! Go sit in the corner!
You must have spent a good amount of time roaming ’round in the hood, Aidan, because you construct some realistic ghetto dialogue. 🙂 I would love to see you do a whole story with these two brotha’z purely for my own entertainment.
It’s mostly just memories of having to ride the 14 Mission bus in San Francisco, plus the first high school I went to (an inner city public school filled to the brim with trash-talking idiots not much different from this one). I wanted to at least make his little brother likable, so as to instill some hope on the children of the future.
We may not have seen the last of these two kids…but then, I’m getting ahead of myself.
Much obliged, but I very highly doubt that I’m the best in that field. For further examples of cleavage-obsessed artists, read ANY GODDAMN COMIC MADE IN THE LAST FORTY YEARS!
No, not at all. Kids need to have some common sense snapped into them (well, Lord knows I got a lot of that), and sometimes these “macho” big-mouthed brats give the impression that their moms and dads don’t care much to raise them properly.
…okay, that’s a very wide assumption. I don’t have children, so if anyone out there wants to correct me, please do so.
Nnnnnnnnnnope! I think we’re generally in agreement around here.
I suppose peer pressure is another factor, but then, why are their parents letting them hang around with said peers!?
My son I adopted at an older age….. and while he was a thief when I adopted him, at least he was a respectful kid. Sulky, sullen, but always said thank you. Makes me wonder how kids with actual homes and enough money to look like garbage with oversized designer clothes can possibly turn out to be the wrecks we see everywhere in america.
You must be super-busy these days; your on-line name used to be “Frank” and now it’s “f”. Must save a ton of time not having to type those extra letters!
Oh! THAT Llorona! La Llorona. I learned about her in an awesome book called “Women Who Run With the Wolves”. The author really dug deep into the origins of some pervasive folk tales.
I’m interested to see where you go with this, Aidan.
We’re delving into the stuff of legends now. I definitely look afford to whatever diabolical tale you have waiting for us!
Glad to know you’re on board! Now let’s see if you regret riding this spooky train all the way to the end of the line…will we end up in Revelation Town or Stupid Endingville?
I’m a professional storyteller. People pay me to tell folktales and I’ve told a few about La Llorna. But DAMN that’s way scarier than anything I’ve ever done! LOVE the hands!
Hey, thank you kindly Michael! There’s always a good batch of scary-as-hell stories to keep with you in the event of a sudden campfire (it happens), and the tale of La Llorona is a treasured chestnut of fear-filled foofernannery.
Foofernannery? Uh…I needed something alliterate.
Oooo, a ghost story. Maybe.
Anyway, this should be good to take us to/through Halloween…
(settles back with the Bowl of Everlasting Popcorn)
Not sure if this one will last until Halloween (I might have something special in store for that…), but in any event this should give you a good dose of early trick-or-treat jitters.
…and hey, share that Everlasting Popcorn with the rest of us! You stole it from Willy Wonka, you can afford to be generous!
And if I would steal from Willy Wonka, why wouldn’t I Bogart the popcorn? 😉
Just don’t steal that Fizzy-Lifting Drink; he’ll go on a screaming tirade if you do!
And then it’s just awkward for everybody
I’m just going to throw out that she looks kinda like Bone China.
No connection whatsoever between the two characters (that’s what I get for having two ‘goth girl’ characters introduced one after the other), but maybe you’ll grow to love Crybaby. Well, if you love seeing idiot kids getting whisked away you might.
HHHMM great art, profanity, and folklore. Good start
Jim
The core of American literature! Ask Mark Twain. Or Matt Groening.
Yikes!
I hope she takes out the foul-mouthed Rayray… get’im, Scary Mexican-legend, scary person!
Dada… just how does your censoring system work?… a@s is okay, b*tch is okay… F&ck and the n-word got the line?…. wha-Huh? Artists…
The censoring gets complicated; I think “bitch” was censored in SCAPULA for a very long time. I don’t know if this is the first time I’ve let that one slip by uncensored, but it’s not a word I like to use myself.
Ass is everywhere now, so there’s no point wiping one out (….uh….moving on…). Both F-words and the N-bomb get bleeped, because those ones piss off the most people. The S-word, too, although I don’t think anyone really gets offended by that one so much anymore.
‘Peepee’ is unacceptable.
Pull yo pants up RayRay. Ain’t nobody want see that.
Tell that to every kid I used to ride the bus with. If only they knew what it really meant (but there’s memes circulating now to create awareness on just how stupid of a fashion it really is).
Gods, I know. I saw someone in town doing it with no shirt on this week and I wanted to tell them.
Haha, I also like those “anatomy of a thug” memes, where the skeleton has inch long legs.
Well, at least RayRay has something he can still pull up and wear after he tosses the britches he just loaded.
Yeeeeuck! Maybe he’ll have a weapon to fight back with: a poopoo-filled trouser-bomb!
Love those hands! Great hands, memorable hands!
I remember as a kid I decided all the best scary animated films had great “spooky hand scenes” in them – The BFG when the giants are reaching in through the windows to steal children… Flight of Dragons when the villain is doing something wizardy.. Phantom Tollbooth when some other villain is doing something scary.
Proving I just remember hands better than the content of films.
Hands done in the style of the legendary Steve Ditko. Learn from the masters, folks!
What is BFG an abbreviation for? I get the feeling it’s something I’ve seen a million times, but right now my brain isn’t picking up acronym wavelengths very well. It’s been a long Sunday.
There’s plenty of scary hand scenes in films; my mother always told me about the scariest film she ever saw as a kid, “The Beast With Five Fingers”, about a living severed hand that goes around strangling people (I guess…well, the film wouldn’t be very interesting if it just snapped its fingers or went around picking people’s noses).
BFG is just BFG (in the books it’s explained as Big Friendly Giant).. An amazingly warped 80’s film based on a Roald Dahl book. You probably have seen it!
If not, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT7C4kUk1ds – that Dr Who-esque intro honestly has nothing to do with the film, but is still pretty cool.
Thanks for sharing! I’ll have to check it out sometime, like when my library gets it (not all of us buy into Netflix, y’know!).
Netflix? That was a Youtube video. Or do you mean a dislike of bandwidth-eating movies?
Being more raised on DOOM than Dahl, to me BFG has always been “Big F***ing Gun.”
It would be so nice if your comic would feature one day the the popobawa monster. Look at the paragraph “Description and behaviour” of wikipedia, it’s fascinating.
I get the feeling that the ‘popobawa’ monster would end up in SCAPULA as the ‘Poopoobowa’ monster…and all sorts of disgusting silliness would ensue.
Sounds about right!
Sounds like a bunch of hooey thought up to scare kids into not staying out late..haha
As a child I wasn’t told stories about ghosts to make sure I stayed inside; I was told about the neighborhood gangs and the muggers who would kick the shit out of me if I went out.
I might have been better off with ghosts.
When I was a kid, we’d play ghost in the graveyard, it was like hide and seek, but in a cemetery! …. thats as bad as my childhood gets. Playing in a field of dead people trying to make others pee themselves in the dark!
…I only bring up the peeing their pants story becuz I’m sure this loud mouthed brat up there is doing just that in his pantaloons right now!
Graveyards are no big whoop. I don’t mean to disrespect the dearly departed, but I’ve never really had any huge reverence for cemeteries other than that they’re nice, quiet little places. My mother actually used to teach me how to drive for the first time in a cemetery, since you could just drive around the paths and not have to worry about other cars running into you.
As for ‘kids peeing their pants’ stories….man, I’m sure everyone here has got a doozie or two to share (that’s ‘doozie’, not ‘doodie’…although kids do THAT in their pants as well).
That’s the best source material for a character… she should ride a Chubacabra like a pony!
“…she should ride a Chubacabra like a pony!”
Before anyone out there cares to misinterpret that statement, keep in mind that it came from the crazed mind that created Sociak Vermyn. Check it out yourself and maybe you WILL see someone riding a goat-sucker!
The eyes in the 6th panel freaked me out. I’d be screaming like an infant if I saw just a figure with red glowing eyes peeking at me. Rayray was braver than I would have been.
Can’t say it was nice knowing ya, ya foul-mouthed kid.
Like most dumbass kids he’s just shooting his mouth off to hide the fact that he’s screwed. He just didn’t realize it until it was too late.
…of course we have yet to learn what exactly happened to these kids, so let’s just stick around for the rest of this tale!
When will people realize that they should never mess with glowing eyes in the dark? That always leads to trouble!
And how! My old pets had eyes that glowed (well, when you photographed them they did) and Lord knows I would never mess with a bunch of bratty animals!
I’m ’bout to start painting a Goat Sucker for a Halloween show. I want one as a pet!
Just be sure to keep them away from your goats.
Unless the goats are into that sort of thing. Who are we to judge?
…back away slowly…
Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to meet La Lloronas! And that kid sure ain’t no
fudginDennis the Menace!Mark! You watch that filthy language, young man! Going around shouting “fudge” all willy-nilly like some ne’er-do-well ragamuffin! Go sit in the corner!
Llorona must be colorblind if she thinks these are her children!
I don’t care it that was un-P.C., I still got a laugh out of it!
At this point in her undeath I think any kid will do.
You must have spent a good amount of time roaming ’round in the hood, Aidan, because you construct some realistic ghetto dialogue. 🙂 I would love to see you do a whole story with these two brotha’z purely for my own entertainment.
It’s mostly just memories of having to ride the 14 Mission bus in San Francisco, plus the first high school I went to (an inner city public school filled to the brim with trash-talking idiots not much different from this one). I wanted to at least make his little brother likable, so as to instill some hope on the children of the future.
We may not have seen the last of these two kids…but then, I’m getting ahead of myself.
You create the best cleavage in comics.
Much obliged, but I very highly doubt that I’m the best in that field. For further examples of cleavage-obsessed artists, read ANY GODDAMN COMIC MADE IN THE LAST FORTY YEARS!
A new story begins! Already it’s entertaining
Thanks man! More idiocy to come!
As someone who has gone out of her way to scare mealymouthed brats in ghettoes, I look forward to Crybaby.
She makes me happy. That likely means I need a lot more therapy or something, doesn’t it?
No, not at all. Kids need to have some common sense snapped into them (well, Lord knows I got a lot of that), and sometimes these “macho” big-mouthed brats give the impression that their moms and dads don’t care much to raise them properly.
…okay, that’s a very wide assumption. I don’t have children, so if anyone out there wants to correct me, please do so.
*Listening to the crickets*
Nnnnnnnnnnope! I think we’re generally in agreement around here.
I suppose peer pressure is another factor, but then, why are their parents letting them hang around with said peers!?
My son I adopted at an older age….. and while he was a thief when I adopted him, at least he was a respectful kid. Sulky, sullen, but always said thank you. Makes me wonder how kids with actual homes and enough money to look like garbage with oversized designer clothes can possibly turn out to be the wrecks we see everywhere in america.
Who can say, but maybe they’ll wind up as future villains in SCAPULA!
And suddenly I have an urge to call my son and make sure he’s doing alright!
There you go hun, new logo….. Scapula: Promoting Good Parenting Through Horrible Example!
That would shut anyone up.
Sorry it has been so long. Your stuff is always so good.
No worries, man! Glad to have you back.
You must be super-busy these days; your on-line name used to be “Frank” and now it’s “f”. Must save a ton of time not having to type those extra letters!
Ooo, nicely done. Scary and cool.
Thankyuh! “Scary and cool” describes most every girl I liked back in high school (sigh…).
Oh! THAT Llorona! La Llorona. I learned about her in an awesome book called “Women Who Run With the Wolves”. The author really dug deep into the origins of some pervasive folk tales.
I’m interested to see where you go with this, Aidan.
Women who run with wolves may end up with a fair share of bites and scratches…and maybe fleas.
As for this take on La Llorona, I hope I don’t disappoint, Jande!
Love the intro of this villain! Very creepy, and nicely handled.
Thank you kindly, Chris! Glad you enjoyed, and hope you stick around for the rest of our tale.
whatever happens, i hope that kid learns some manners from it
….and hopefully he’ll learn to keep his damned mouth shut!
This is my worst childhood nightmare embodied into comic panels =O
It gets worse! They DIDN’T GET ANY DESSERT THAT NIGHT!