Fightus Interruptus
Did any of you ever get a package of those Sea Monkeys? My mom bought one for me when I was a kid. What a BIG disappointment! Brine shrimp? You can barely see ’em! I held onto hope that those little squiggly things actually looked like those little pink creatures I saw on the package label. Eventually, reality set in and I gave up. I still like the character designs, though…
Is the battle over?
Or has it just begun?
I never ordered those as a kid, but I also thought the ad was cool and really sparked my imagination!
They sold millions on that art alone!
Lovers or fighters? Who cares….Sea monkeys!! Nothing is ever going to be the same. Wish you all the best with the kick starter.
Aqua Chimps in the house! Something tells me this ain’t no barrel full of monkeys! Thanks about the Kickstarter, Rich, I appreciate your encouragement!
Me too Mark, love the Sea Monkeys!!
Oh, those little crowns and fish tails! And don’t forget their little underwater kingdom!
This tank it turning into a real shmorgishborg!
You will be terrariumilated.
Aqua-Chimps!!!! YES! I love it. One of those things I wished I’d of thought of.
I blame it all on Harold von Braunhut!
We ask the doctor, and the doctor said,
“No more monkeys jumping on the sea bed !”
It’s far, far too late for that, J.P.!!! Love your rhyme!
there goes the neighborhood! [smirk]
Those Aqua Monkeys didn’t have a choice to have to be stuck with those two guys!
There goes the neighborhood! Last time my daughter had them they all died save one. HE lived for months! The methuselah of shrimp!
“Thus all the days of Sea Monkey Methuselah were 96 days, and he died.”
The Aqua Chimps do not seem to approve.
After all that time freeze-dried in a jar and now rehydrated into the middle of this squirmish, can you blame ’em? Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Joe!
Who are these little Sea Demons?
They’re either imps from the Eighth Ring of Hell (Fraud) or manufactured by the Transcience Corporation.
Nooooo! Not the Aqua Chimps!!!!!
Yes, the Aqua Chimps!!! Did I mention the Aqua Chimps?!!
I was muchly disappointed too. I expected them to be just like the ad. Now I wonder whosae side the aqua chimps will be on in this tank war
Put it this way, they are a lot more of them, than there are of ZB and the turtle!
Hmmm… Now I’m curious Mark. Perhaps Morgan & Turtle will have to join forces against a common enemy???
Just like a veteran detective who can spot a clue from across the room, your plot skills are ace, Tony!
I got a bag of those when I was younger as well. I was as disappointing as you were.
Cant wait to see the cool spin you’ll put on it! 🙂
Fantastic Job Mark! 🙂 Keep up the excellent Work.
I’m making up the story I wish I had seen in that aquarium all those years ago, Alexander! Thanks!
I always wanted Sea Monkeys, but I never got them. I’m not sure how they ever got away with those ads for them. Talk about misrepresentation!
One thing’s for sure… the ad agency that invented them did a great job at moving product!
Who’s house? Aqua chimps house!
And lest you forget, there’s a thousand more waiting to remind you!
I remember them. Sea Monkeys? More like “I can’t SEE monkeys!” The container had magnifying glass bubbles embedded. That’s how small they were!
No amount of advertising could make a kid see a monkey when they’re looking at little shrimp!
I never got sea monkeys as a kid. Sounds like they would have made an awesome cereal though. Great comic Mark. That turtle sure is a feisty character!
I tell ya, Matt! It’s the packaging that sells this stuff! Cereal packages have the best art, don’t you think? That turtle has come a long way, considering he was originally just a throw-away character!
I’m starting to feel like Christopher Walken: “I can’t get _enough_ turtle!” especially if he’s fighting. That’s hysterical.
I’m honored that something I did could deliver you a Christopher Walken moment, Brad!
I bought sea monkeys when I was a kid! the illustration made it look like the lost city of Atlantis and then even with the magnifying bubbles they looked like nothingness. I bet the xray specs didn’t work either. your crowns and tridents are perfect 🙂
They had me sold with the crowns and tridents, too, Kirsten! They really got our imaginations going with the whole Atlantis connection, didn’t they? The magnifying bubbles just lent it more credibility!
Sea People = Gull food.
Mass gullicide!
We had some sea monkeys a few years ago when we were living in Florida that got large enough for us to make out their legs without the magnifying glass. They never do look like the pictures tho. ;P
As a kid, I was angry they didn’t look anything like the ad – no crowns, no little webbed hands or feet. As a grown-up I gotta hand it to their marketing department!
INVASION! Looks like they both might have bigger problems now! Love the poses in Panel 2!
Thanks, Rich. I was happy with how that pose came out. I was going for that stop in mid-fight effect.
I wonder which side they’ll take on this battle?
I had Sea-Monkeys, too! And I really did wish they would be like the picture!
I turned my disappointment into this comic strip, Joseph!
Ooh! Cuuuuute! Hundreds and hundreds of cute! That you drew. By hand. On paper! <3
I lost track after about 75, lol.