09/14/2014
For the unacquainted: If you haven’t read the BONE CHINA story arc, it would be best to jump back and read it before we go any further. I mean it. I won’t post any new comics until you do!…well, I won’t post any new comics until this Tuesday.
What has Bone China gotten herself into? We’ll find out!
Oh yeah, I forgot her hair was red.
It changes with her mood. Her hair turns red when she’s startled, nervous, anxious, or panicky, then turns mauve when she’s calm.
To be fair, BC wouldn’t be the first person to get involved with Scapula and then say that exact same thing she did in the last panel. 😀
Oh, c’mon! It’s not like EVERY woman who knows Scapula says that! Moonie Meadows parted with him on a pleasant note (thanks to the drugs).
And really, most people who team up with Scapula do, in fact, profit from the experience quite a bit. Sure there’s the occasional lousy patch, but historically they make a pretty good go of it (outside of that pack of idiot fanatics, but let’s face it…… they were doomed from the word go). Jemini took out Dugong and got back most of her criminal standing, the various members of the SMDL have always netted some cash (as much as they complain) and in the case of Throgor and Toxsick they even got rescued from a fate literally worse than death, Bombastar got to finally pull off the big flaming F-YOU, Sam got a Jemini of her own…… heck even the Homophobe, El Disgusto and Wooly Rhino were doing okay on his side until they tried to sell him out. I mean, his mooks die like flies, but compared to other gangs at least they get decent guns and uniforms!
Ok, ok … so *nearly* every woman. And I just said she definitely wasn’t the first. 😀
Quitting with a cult’s never easy.
Nice look on Scap there in panel 5, by the way.
It never is; there are more than enough documentaries out there on the subject, so I’ll let you all watch one for yourself.
Another thing that’s hard to quit? Making grumpy faces. Scapula’s hooked!
Like Toxsick, I’m wondering — is Scapula thinking with his balls or his brains? Gotta keep reading, I guess.
Well, there are people who think with their fists or their feet…and plenty of people who think with their rear ends.
Don’t be one of those people; keep reading this comic and feed your brain!
I definitely think with my fists. They also do a lot of talking and are quite erudite in their conversations, I find! Few disagree with them for long.
I love the fist panel. There is such a chasm between Scap & BC… Is there any symbolism to the cross exactly between them?
You would have to ask Bone China’s grandmother (it’s her place), although if you wish to interpret it in a metaphorical sense I won’t stop you. Heck, this entire comic could be a response to the Scopes trial for all I care!
…but I’m glad you enjoyed panel 1 (next time we’ll see if you like the panels that follow!).
I like the other panels… sure… but I like the FIRSTEST one best.
Yep…… exes are nothing but a load of trouble and for some reason SOME of us are just plain suckers for helping them out. At the very least I got to beat on mine as part of the arrangement……. being a known sadist comes with a few minor perks!
No comment from me, but let’s just hope you had the Ramones’ song “Beat on the Brat” playing at the time.
Do you have my house bugged or something?! Another one I tended to put on was ‘Beat it’, and once in a while I would make sure ‘Red Right Hand’ was on.
I….. have a lot of exes. Most of whom got into a lot of trouble. Okay, I’m a terrible lover who had lots of money to throw around, I admit it! Heck if Scapula’s gang was forming in my neck of the woods when I was 17 I’d probably have signed up. I was not a nice girl.
I just love the doors and shades in this one. It’s very rich.
Colors. Silt autocorrect.
Silly! It strikes again. Sorry.
No worries. My own keyboard is busted, which results in a lot of hilariously poorly-timed typos (namely when I’m writing professional emails).
No, mistake is the fact that Scapula is taking you back to the hideout where he lives with his new brainwashed sorta kinda girlfriend/lover/whatever.
That will either have horrible consequences, or hilarious ones.
If we’re lucky, both.
It could also have boring consequences if they just sit on couches providing exposition, but that would be “Star Wars Prequels” storytelling. And I would never stoop to THAT, right?
Next week: they all sit on couches, drinking tea, and catching up.
You’d better be pouring enough tea for all of US, then. I prefer mine made of rose hips and a dusting of fine black, thank you.
Or there had better be lightsaber fights in the background.