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This week’s comic is a Super-Fun-Pak Comix, featuring “Marital Mirth,” “Richard Is Not a Vegan,” “Ernie Hemingway’s Secondhand Unworn Baby Shoes Emporium,” and MORE!
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “YEAR ONE BUG” (from 1999, of course).
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2003).
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This edition of The Tom the Dancing Bug Review was composed and scheduled to be sent last week. So you’ll understand if huge news stories have occurred over the past week that go unremarked upon.
But maybe I’ll take a guess and say: How about that Trump indictment this week! Crazy, huh?
I hope nothing more momentous than that has happened.
As you might guess, the reason for this pre-scheduled newsletter is that I’m on vacation (location: undisclosed). And that is the reason there will be NO Tom the Dancing Bug Review next week.
That’s right, I won’t see you again until September! So have a great rest of your August, stay safe, and stay well,
I will remain Yours in a Rare Moment of Leisure,
Rb
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