04/12/2015
I haven’t lived in San Francisco in a very long time, but I’ve always kept it as the setting of SCAPULA (I think only one storyline took place outside of the Bay Area). The heavy fog, the beautiful gray skies, and the crumbly old architecture ready to be destroyed by airhead yuppies serves as a great backdrop for the series, and drawing panels like the ones above is something like a nostalgic trip back home.
…as for vampires, I’ve seen enough of those! Let’s see how Scapula and his villainous allies deal with this lurking menace.
I imagine a couple, just off panel, walking by and seeing these villains in front of a church.
Now I’m thinking of the random couple on the street in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.
“Those animals are wrecking everything! What will we do if they come over here?”
“Let them get their own cab.”
Never trust any trail that leads you to a collapsing building of any sort.
Even if it’s a trail of cookies? Hell, I’d follow those off of a cliff if they were chocolate chip!
That’s why there are no dinosaurs left you know. One plane with a faulty loading door and a cargo of chocolate chip cookies, and suddenly no more stegosaurs.
Primitive mammals were wise to evolve baking skills and pilot licenses.
I feel sorry for any random bystander they walk past. Hyenas aren’t things you normally would see in San Francisco.
Freaks in weird clothes, that’s normal. 😛
I’m actually surprised more ‘trendy’ San Franciscans aren’t seen walking around with exotic animals; it seems like the kind of thing the fancy-pants folks would do. Why just stroll into an overpriced vegan diner when you could do it with a caracal or red panda on a leash?
I’ve heard of at least one guy in northern Canada who hunts with a trained leopard, does that count?
In the first panel I just realised how similar Scap’s and Throgor’s speach bubbles looked (Throgor’s outline is broader).
Weird how you can overlook some details.
Still loving the hyena. ^^
I try to keep the specialized word balloons to just Scapula and Throgor; Babirus’ speech has some warped effects and very early on in the series Hypnausea spoke in a wavy font. What the heck, maybe EVERY character should have a snazzy text (I’m sure there’s some comic out there that does just that)!
Loving the second panel very muc!. We don’t get those kinds of churches over here, and it’s a greatly moody looking one indeed.
We do have those kind of churches in San Francisco…just not for long. Sooner or later all the good old ones will be plowed down in favor of something boring and generic, like any modern architecture in town!
One would think they’d make them historical buildings after being there for so long.
Insert Jenn lamenting the loss of nice architecture here. It’s kinda sad. Up here in the chilly mid-north we still have plenty of surprisingly old churches kicking around, but even they’re starting to succumb to a lack of maintenance and funds. (I’m really chatty today, aren’t I? Too much caffeine)
WOW! Great job on the second panel! I hate drawing buildings because they take soooo much time and effort to get the perspectives right and everything. But then, I’m lazy.
🙂
The perspective is probably a tad askew to the trained eye (i.e. the straight-A art student who considers Brunelleschi to be God) but I still had to draw it anyway. Setting up a scene is crucial, especially to an adventure serial, so sometimes you just have to pull yourself up by the bootstraps and draw that thing.
…or, if you’re a hack like me, just wing it. It came out looking KINDA’ like a building, yes?