09/15/2013
One of the things we’ve been learning about Scapula this year is that he’s becoming less tolerant of failure. Rest assured that he wont be taking this defeat lying down, but we’re going to have to wait and see what he does about it.
That said, it’s time we segue into a new storyline, starring Scap’s greatest criminal rival, Jemini! This one begins as the comic says, “about a week ago”, for reasons that will become more apparent later. Be here on Tuesday!
It’s too bad he’s becoming less tolerant of failure… because if one thing holds true, failure’s what Scap is good at.
Too bad, though. I like the idea of them all working together. Well, maybe the others will stick together… long enough to just pull one job and then go their own separate ways, anyway. Of course, I’m wondering if Hypnausea knows the girl he was last seen with is the one they were supposed to be going after. And then he’s captured her and shows up and then everyone is just “so?”
It’s funny, though. Underlings (and not allies) and being obeyed (and not loved) is what Darkevilbaddeathhellmedsgrumpyangerdeceaseman would have given him… well, in a manner of speaking.
I guess what Scap needs is the money to hire underlings. Maybe he could get the funds using Kickstarter! Yes, I am quite certain this idea would make for the most engaging of storylines.
I like it when the villains gather together, too, but sometimes you just go where the stories take you. I’m sure we’ll see the Sinister Monster Doom Legion again, but for here and now they seem to have chosen to oust our hapless hero…er, villain.
Is Scapula starting to turn into his sock puppetty-alter ego? He’s definitely thinking ‘Darker’ thoughts. Whatever he’s plans will be, they’re not going to be pleasant…and they probably wont revolve around manning a Kickstarter campaign. Like I said, Scap isn’t tolerating failure!
As one of the lurkers on your site, I have been silently appreciating this masterpiece of a webcomic. But with Scapula finally realizing what he need to do and how he needs to act to get done, I couldn’t help but comment. You have masterfully crafted this man’s psyche, fragile as it is, and have brought him to this point where he has reached true villainy. Thank you for making this glorious webcomic, and may there be many more.
Glad you enjoyed the wicked thought, TomB (now is that “Tom B” or an alternate spelling of ‘tomb’?…’cuz that would be pretty metal!).
I always love hearing from first-time commenters, so thanks for voicing your thoughts, and that goes for the rest of you silent stalkers as well!
scap scap scap, the world isn’t pissing all over you, i bet if you just told em some woman was messing with your head they would have been happy to bust the doors down and burn a hippy parade and THAN plan a heist with ya,sure they wiould be pissed first but you so rarely get anny action they’ll have to take atleast that much pitty on ya….right?…..right???
Would they have gone along with Scap’s plan if he just told them he wanted revenge on someone? That all depends; Toxsick, as you may remember, was getting fed up with schemes that were more about wanton violence than profit, so he might not have been so interested (then again, Toxsick does do the occasional venture into lethal revenge).
What do YOU think, readers? Would this villainous crew have voted ‘yea’ to this murder plot?
Hey, most of them probably would have said ‘sure’ as long as there was some connected enterprise or an actual plan formed immediately after that would make some cash. I know for a fact Throgor’s had his lady troubles and really, if you reminded Toxsick of his ex I’m sure he’d bend his rules just a little…..
I feel like I should hand him my card and charge a mint for lessons. I could teach the poor soul an awful lot about getting what he wants…….
Of course if he tried to pull this on me, I’d bust him up pretty bad. I like the guy, but I wouldn’t be putting up with his crapola any more than anyone else’s!
By the way, what’s he grousing about!? The guys even waited for a lake to pitch him in! Geez, if that isn’t friendship, what is?
Again, imagine if one of you friends pulled a stunt like this on you. Can you forgive someone who lied about paying you, dragged you out to a roasting desert filled with smelly masses of idiots, and nearly got you pummeled into the polluted sand?
If you are that kind of forgiving person, then you are a real sweetheart…and I might have a scheme for you that may or may not involve laying a beatdown on someone I know…
Um, yeah, I could. Have, altering a few details. I mean I beat the ever-loving hell outta them later, but that’s just how the hicks, dominatrixes and thugs I have known in life roll. As long as they weren’t selling you up the creek to the cops, I believe the saying goes ‘It was Tuesday’. Heck the ‘Sand Pit Gang Fight’ incident alone got me lied to about payment, dragged out to a massive conga line of violent encounters in a freezing neck of the woods in Montana, and resulted in me having to get four ribs set and three teeth anchored in again.
If I hadn’t gotten 4 40’s of Jack outta the mess I’d have been ticked!…….. good God, does everyone else realize what an idiot I’ve spent my life being!? No wonder my job description these days involved ‘get shot at’……
If you got your payment of booze, then you still came out ahead of Scapula! He could probably use a drink right about now.
Speaking of, do you ever need a drink after writing the poor lovable Skullhead?
Not really. The need to drink is usually caused by duress or depression, and those things I tend to channel into SCAPULA comics. If anything, writing Scapula prevents me from drinking!
Jemini could certainly teach him one thing or another about blind obedience. The question is whether he’d like it the way she’d probably do it. 😉
She’s lead him along before, for those of you who were reading this series waaaaaay back during the events of the GANGWAY storyline. The question is, has Scap enough smarts now to take on Jemini, if/when they meet again?
Beautiful colors. That first panel is gorgeous!
Aww, thank you so much! I try to be pretty once in a very rare while.
Scap just needs to lose a few pounds, trim that waistline. Isn’t there a saying about greatness on the outside reflecting greatness on the inside? It’s hard to take a super villain with a beer gut seriously.
He’s lost quite a bit of weight since back in the day (again, making reference to the GANGWAY story when we first saw his lumpy gut).
Fat villains are nearly always mocked by readers (c’mon, you people, Dr. Octopus is a perfectly credible nemesis!), so here’s hoping Scap drops a few pounds to please some of the more discerning folks out there.
I thought Scap was always not tolerant of failure…but he was just too good at it to do anything else.
He came here to do two things: fail and chew bubble gum. And he’s all out of bubble gum (because he failed to realize he had run out).
It took them three weeks to confirm the woman they were following had two heads?
Hey, it’s not the first time a gangster saw a two-headed woman without realizing it was Jemini.
Well, Dugong never really struck me as exceptionally intelligent to begin with.
I have to assume that two-headed people are not as abnormal in this universe as in our own.
What can I say? This is a strange, strange comic.
… well… that’s friendship for ya.
At least they kicked him out someplace nice!
I think this is one of the most beautifully-illustrated sequences you’ve accomplished so far, Aidan. It’s clean, simple, and crips, yet it evokes so much detail and thought. Ya did good, man.
Thanks, George! I laid off of the heavy digital painting when I started the new style at the beginning of 2013, but every once in a while I get decadent.