McCloud appearance in Checkerboard Nighmare

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:08 am

In today's Checkerboard Nighmare comic and, I presume, at least one more. The only man who can stop Chex? Let's hope he's up to the task.

William G · Post by **William G** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 1:16 pm

I'm about to reinvent your face

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!:D

*That* is the funniest punchline ever. From now on, I will never attempt to be funny becasue there is no way I can match that.

Kris Lachowski · Post by **Kris Lachowski** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:20 pm

William G wrote: From now on, I will never attempt to be funny becasue there is no way I can match that.

Oh you mean you have been making some attempt at being funny?

William G · Post by **William G** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 8:55 pm

Only in the "funny - ha ha" manner

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Mon May 03, 2004 12:42 pm

In the senses-shattering conclusion, McCloud delivers the smackdown.

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Mon May 03, 2004 5:17 pm

Gee, and I always thought Scott was a pacifist.

Of course, the last four letters of that word spell "FIST"...though in this case Scott is wielding a shovel. Or is that a spade?

William G · Post by **William G** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:45 pm

Isn't that how Scott deals with drunk panel guests at cons?

Tim Mallos · Post by **Tim Mallos** » Tue May 04, 2004 11:53 am

Rip wrote:Gee, and I always thought Scott was a pacifist.

He is, and he'll kick your ass if you say otherwise.

Tim

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Tue May 04, 2004 4:26 pm

Just so long as he doesn't whack me in the face with a shovel/spade/various heavy, potentially deadly impliment.

Ouch!

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Tue May 04, 2004 5:13 pm

But on the plus side, you'd have a totally reinvented face, so that would be good.

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Tue May 04, 2004 6:11 pm

Hey, hey! Maybe yer ugly mug needs some reinventing, but my purdee puss is just fine the way The Good Lord made it.

No need to worry. We all know that the REAL Scott McCloud uses super-sized robotic gorillas to do his fighting for him.

Ray Radlein · Post by **Ray Radlein** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:08 am

Aha! I knew I remembered this thread's existence!

Anyway, I figured this was the perfect place to mention another appearance for Fightin' Action Hero McCloud, in the bottom panel of today's episode of Fans!.

The setup, for those who don't read Fans!, is that thanks to some untimely meddling with a magical artifact of immense power, the world is being overwhelmed by imaginary entities from comics, science fiction, and fantasy. Some of the Fans have just defeated a group of their own RPG characters, for instance, while others went to a government-controlled looney bin to talk to a Mad Scientist who might have some answers.

In the meantime, a convention panel has just had its program rudely interrupted: The old guy is Arlen Staranka, a roman à clef version of Harlan Ellison, who is being attacked by a robot from his version of the I, Robot screenplay; the lady with a cane is Clara Strudenberry, this universe's rough equivalent of Gene Roddenberry's widow, Majel; and the guy hiding under the tablecloth is Hirohito Moko, a roman à clef version of some well-known male shuojo manga creator whose name escapes me.

As for Our Action Hero, he's appeared in Fans! before, in what may just be my favorite crossover sequence ever.

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:07 pm

Heh! Always good to see Scott getting a nice throttling.

RyanE · Post by **RyanE** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:31 am

Good ol' Scott will also be appearing in Niego sometime next week
via my guest strip.
It'll be up sometime soon at
http://www.niego.org

But here's the ol' sneak peek.
http://www.ryanestrada.com/niego.jpg

Ryan

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:08 pm

RyanE wrote:But here's the ol' sneak peek.
http://www.ryanestrada.com/niego.jpg

Sung to the tune of...?

RyanE · Post by **RyanE** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:16 pm

Sung to the tune of.... geez, I dunno. The made up sone I had goin through my head as I wrote it. Or whatever tune goes through your head as you read it.
Ok, so a comic may not be the best format to write a musical.

Eric F Myers · Post by **Eric F Myers** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:48 pm

RyanE wrote:Ok, so a comic may not be the best format to write a musical.

"Them sounds like fight'n words. Son, go en git me there that pencil."

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You did a good job. The rhythm flowed well enough for me to hear the music.

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:50 pm

RyanE wrote:Ok, so a comic may not be the best format to write a musical.

Don't tell that to Frank Jacobs and Al Jaffe. During my misspent youth, one of the favorite books on my shelf was Sing Along With MAD. The highlights were "My Fair Lester" and the mob musical "The Sound of Murder".

RyanE wrote:Sung to the tune of.... geez, I dunno.

Heh. Yeah, I was raised on all those Frank Jacobs musical comics in MAD. I have a pavlovian response whenever I see a song in a comic. I expect to see an asterix next to the first line leading to a footnote saying "Sung to the tune of..." followed by the name of some old song; usually a show-tune.