GIANT ATTACK MONSTERS MEGA-BATTLE! pg25
Modesty, thy name is Hypnausea (of course this isn’t the first time we’ve seen him shamelessly skyclad…).
What dread beast has Scapula become? There’s only five more pages in this story, so you can either wait and see or grab a copy of Scapula and the Sinister Monster Doom Legion, now available in the store!
Today is also Scare L.A., one of the biggest horror-themed conventions in southern California, so all of you fright-fans in Los Angeles should come on out to the show! I’ll have lots of Scapula books, monster art, and other ghoulish goodies at my table (yep, including the new comic), so get the trick-or-treating started early this year!
I like the details in this one, like the woman checking Hypnausea out, and the freaky cowboy dude in the second panel.
Two questions, though: firstly, who is the cowboy, and secondly did you draw Knuckle Sam (or a lookalike) into the strip as a cameo or something?
Random background characters are a throwback to MAD; if an artist has to draw something as boring and tedious as a whole crowd of unimportant characters then they should at least be fun to look at!
To answer your questions: 1) the cowboy isn’t anyone in particular, and 2) the punk girl isn’t anyone in particular and is definitely not the late Knuckle Sam (late…she died in 2014! Wow, time sure flies…).
The busty girl shouting the line in the first panel IS based on a friend of mine, who is just as loud in real life (but not quite as eloquent).
Finally, Scapula gets a taste of what it’s like to be on top! I bet this is pretty well his lifelong dream!
…only with less women to fawn over him, but maybe he can pluck a few out of the crowd (even if they’re the size of Lego people to him).
Speaking of booty, those ladies (aside from melodramatic lady) seem to enjoy staring at Hypnausea’s tucchus. You can’t get a venereal disease just from looking at him , right?
I hope not! The last thing I need is readers suing me over seeing Hypnausea and melting like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
And silly me, I thought Scap would turn himself back to normal. Nope, he’s gone all Inhumanoid instead.
What to call this one? Scapthulhu? Scapdorah?
Scapowski? Scapenberg? O’Scap? McScap? Scapasaka?
Goodness, Is that knuckle sam looking at scapula supreme? or is it King Scapula? what to call this skelescapula?
KING SCAPULA! >beats his chest, carries off Fay Wray<
aw dangit, just noticed your comment that it isn’t knuckle sam. doesnt change the second part of my comment. I personally like King Scapula Supreme.
At this point I’m fine with readers making up their own names for his monster form. I just figure he’s Scapula, and a Scapula by any other name would smell as evil!
Or even Absolute Scapula S. Just to mature and all.
Absolut Scap. The perfect drink to get drunk and stupid with!
This seemed like the best place to pay tribute: Haruo Nakajima, the first actor to wear the Godzilla suit, passed today at age 88.
Rest in peace, Nakajima-san.
I heard the sad news this morning and paid tribute to him with on the Aidan Casserly Art page on Facebook. RIP to the man who played Godzilla, Rodan, Kong, Varan, Baragon, Gaira, Gezora, Mogera, and many many many more.
Giant Kaiju Scapula!
At least until the Pleasureliens restore him to his former self.
(I was about to write “restore him to his normal self,” but I’m not sure Scap has ever been what anyone would call “normal”)
“Normal” is a concept which seems more and more fraudulent the older we get…so what if I’m going to be a weird old man, I’m going to enjoy it! (unless if a Pleasurelien interferes).
Gah! I just randomly decided to check back this site today and find out that I have missed AN ENTIRE SCAPULA STORYLINE! Take heed, kids. This is what happens when you don’t bookmark a webcomic….. or know how to.
Oh, man! Scapula has suffered a horrible fate…. but also looks like he is having the time of his life and then some!
*Sniff* I love those quirky, random characters that you ad to each page, Mr. Casserly. That overly eloquet woman, just kills me.
Silly Zealot hath returned! We missed you so much that we had to make a replacement in your likeness…okay, it’s just a paper bag with a happy face drawn on in crayon, but it still did the trick.
That said, welcome back and here’s hoping you’re enjoying the story; there’s loads of new comics to be found in Scapula and the Sinister Monster Doom Legion.
(and yes, there’s tons of random MAD magazine-esque background characters all through the issue).
I thought the punk lady was the bigger flexing gal from your page wallpaper, myself.
The punk girl on the wallpaper was from a short-lived series of ‘girl art’ prints that I tried at conventions; sadly, not many people have the same tastes as I do (meaning they wanted more “naked anime Harley Quin” stuff than my big punk/goth gals). To each their own, I guess.