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The comic for this week is Bad Fetus, in “Fetal Firepower.”
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Well, the Top Ten Tom the Dancing Bugs of 2024 have been determined, voted upon, announced, and debated.
The full Top Ten list can be found here, on the Tom the Dancing Bug website, and I’m presenting below the Top Three, as determined by a vote of the esteemed and venerated Inner Hive.
THE NUMBER THREE TOM THE DANCING BUG OF 2024
A BUSY, BUSY DAY AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, from the week of July 15.
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THE NUMBER TWO TOM THE DANCING BUG OF 2024
HOW IT STARTED / HOW IT’S GOING, from the week of September 23.
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AND THE NUMBER ONE TOM THE DANCING BUG OF 2024
NEWS OF THE TIMES: CEO MANHUNT, from the week of December 9.
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is Lucky Ducky, in “Unemployment Isn’t a Bug — It’s a Feature” (from 2014).
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And the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has recently featured comics from these two installments (from 2015).
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I’m now occasionally writing posts for Boing Boing. Here are a few of the items I wrote recently:
Russian propoaganda video shows Santa Claus blown out of the sky by Russian missiles
“The Ballad of Toshi” - On women gazing at men in biopics, an essay by Merrill Markoe
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