The Adventures of the S-Team!

“Bwarm Bwarm Baderrr” is a sound effect stolen directly from the Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. It’s how an extremely drunk Ford Prefect describes his favorite Disaster Area song to his old friend Hotblack Desiato. And cranking the volume up to eleven is a reference to This is Spinal Tap.

You also get a look at the first new set piece I’ve built in a long time: the band set. You can see the monitor speakers at the bottom as well as the PA amps in the back. I’m especially pleased with the way Smokescreen’s drum set turned out (and as an ex-drummer, it’s pretty accurate as well).

I went for a kind of blue-collar punk look for Shellshock here (and yes, I know his face is worn – I work several weeks ahead in the strip so I’d already shot a bunch of strips and didn’t want to go back and fix them). I was thinking along the lines of The Clash with him, but somehow I just didn’t know what to do about his helmet.

And then it came to me. Tomorrow.

The Scarlet Swordsmistress finally lets her hair down. The outfit she’s wearing has been seen before in this strip, all the way back in the very beginning. It was worn by Simone DiSoto when she interviewed Samuel S. Silverstein.