11/17/2013
Okay, naughty children, it’s time to kick off another storyline! You’ll want to follow along for this one, since it’s a real turning-point for the series (but aren’t all of the stories?).
Several characters were completely redesigned when I launched the “new” SCAPULA at the beginning of 2013, including Harkin Farley (who, apparently, is still not getting along with his father, even after getting kidnapped by a psychopath). Harkin’s new design is largely based on actor Jakub Gierszal in the Polish film Sala samobójców (Suicide Room, aka @SuicideRoom), which is another story about ungrateful rebellious kids with eyeliner.
it’s every bodie’s favorite man-child :D, i support the lazy cop get a job son…and a haircut!
I though everybody’s favorite man-child was Robin Williams…or was, until he made that movie about actually BEING a man-child.
Get that emo boy a buzzcut and maybe he’ll change his attitude!
Oh yeah, I saw that movie. “Jack”, wasn’t it called?
Yes, indeed! Then you see Robin Williams turn into a geriatric-man-child, which is in itself disturbing.
Sulking into the night with dubious friends in anticipation of even more dubious activities. What could possibly go wrong?
I don’t miss it, but I get the sinking feeling that if I woke up tomorrow 25 years younger, I’d end up doing it all over again.
Rebellious youth is wonderful until it ends. Then it’s followed by a lifetime of “Why did I do that?”. Aw, what the hell!
We’ll see if this particular crew of creepy kids live to regret their youth.
Ah, nothing like the friendly banter between close friends. Saying the same things without a coy smile could lead to interpersonal interactions of the painful kind.
You wouldn’t believe how badly most friends insult one another, but if you’re an outsider who dares to step in and try firing off a jab or two you’ll probably end up dead. Such is life…
But hey, we’re all friends here! Right, you buncha’ wieners?
Absolutely, you ink-stained crackpot!
Well, can’t say I’m all that invested in a storyline about this Harkin guy, but then, maybe it’ll tie into other ongoing story arcs in an interesting way that I could never predict in a million years. In fact, that’s pretty much a guarantee. That’s one of the things that I really enjoy about this comic, it’s genuinely unpredictable in a very entertaining way.
Also, I’m already taking a liking to Nazz for some reason, foul-mouthed and thuggish b**ch though she may be.
squint a bit, and she kinda resembles Jemini – but without a second head, obviously.
Uh oh…so much for that surprise ending! Okay, change of plans: she’s the bastard daughter of Knuckle Sam and Tigadactyl. Makes no sense, but there you go!
Glad you’re enjoying the unpredictability (even when the Dadaman story is over!), and here’s hoping you stick around for this tale. Don’t worry, Harkin will get what’s coming to him (unless if I reward him with riches and a happy ending…that would suck, but it might be unpredictable!).
Doesn’t Harkin know you can’t insult a chick that thinks like a guy? It doesn’t work. Then again, I guess he doesn’t know very much…… for starters nobody is sympathetic to a 20-ish guy crying about being misunderstood unless they’re rich.
I’m almost expecting Nazz to be a younger sister to Rizz. Same style of nickname, same pleasantly butch lesbian attitude, not quite the same sense of self-preservation and experience yet…..
Harkin’s got a lot of wising up to do on a number of life topics, so let’s see if his next misadventure will make him any brighter (or less whiny).
As of this writing, there is no connection between Rizz and Nazz, but who knows if that’s something I want to make up in the future. Some of the characters in SCAPULA have fairly in-depth backstories written for them, and some I really just create on the fly to suit the story at hand. Who knows who might be related in the NEXT story?!
I’m waiting to see who dons the mask and shades to become Zodi Jr. Jr!
Didn’t that kid learn the last time that daddy is always right
He just learned that being a whiner is lots of fun (more fun than, y’know, doing something with your life).
I think the bad decisions of others is what prompted me to become an introvert in the first place. Sighhh…the things we do to prove our manhood when we’re still just young boys…..
Kids are cruel. Like, really cruel. Like, really, really, REALLY…oh, just go read the story about Scapula’s childhood again!
For what it’s worth to those who were picked on an awful lot as children, and on behalf of about half the bullies out there who grow up, lose touch, then learn the meaning of regret: We’re sorry.
……. for those of us like me who still cherish your pain: Neener neener! Gimmie your lunch money, nerd!
I kid. I beat up bullies. They put up more
For what it’s worth to those who were picked on an awful lot as children, and on behalf of about half the bullies out there who grow up, lose touch, then learn the meaning of regret: We’re sorry.
……. for those of us like me who still cherish your pain: Neener neener! Gimmie your lunch money, nerd!
I kid. I beat up bullies. They put up more fight and had the lunch money all in one place, so it was very efficient.
Whoa…deja vu! Not just the double-comment, the whole having to deal with bullies thing!
Here’s the sad truth: there are bullies everywhere in the adult world, too. They can physically hit you anymore, but they can spread shit about you and be confrontational assholes all the same. Age never takes the edge off of some jerks, and indeed, I’ve met a good number of “professionals” in their 50’s and 60’s who still act like rude children.
But I guess anything is better than the days of wedgies and Indian burns, right?
Yeah, kinda weird how that posted twice. Funny enough in my line of work I don’t deal with many bullies on my side of the line, and I deal with lots of them on the other. I mean, I’m a bodyguard, it’s my job to bully the bullies. Hm, am I some kind of bullying cannibal?
Oh my goth, Nazz is my brother’s ex-girlfriend incarnated as a cartoon. She looks exactly like that and has the same attitude. I really want to see her ass get kicked for that reason.
And for some strange reason, I love Harkin. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because he’s really a lovable little dork.
That would be shocking, except there must be hundreds of thousands of snotty teenage girls out there just like her. “Modern kids: they’ve been that way though out the ages!”
…and it’s actually kind of nice to know Harkin has one fan out there.
Will we see Nazz get her ass kicked? Will we see Harkin get her..oops, his ass kicked? Will we see a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s and will his hair be perfect? We’ll have to find out!