This week, now-former Washington State Troopers laid their boots and hats on the steps of the Capitol Building to represent their decision to leave their jobs because of the vaccine mandate.
(from Twitter) I think every time an employee quits a job because they don’t like a job requirement, they should leave a pair of their shoes at the door of their former employer. It’s a nice parting gesture.
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This week’s comic is a brand new Super-Fun-Pak Comix!
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Here’s an article from BoingBoing about the new Tom the Dancing Bug books coming out next month.
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is a God-Man comic about the Taliban in 2001... but months before 9/11!
(At the time, the Taliban had been facing international condemnation for destroying ancient Afghan cultural sites and artifacts.)
On the request of, and with thanks to, an anonymous Inner Hive member, who helps make this comic possible.
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2010).
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Today’s picture of Otis. When you walk into a room and find that your dog has set himself up with a snack and a friend. (This picture was not posed by anyone but Otis.)
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Yours Indeed,
Rb
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Two new Tom the Dancing Bug books are being published in November, and are now available for pre-order! You can reserve your copies today.
TOM THE DANCING BUG AWAKENS, VOLUME 6 IN THE COMPLETE TOM THE DANCING BUG -- 2012-2015. This volume covers the Obama years and the rise of Trump, and it includes the introduction of the feature Chagrin Falls and installments of many other Tom the Dancing Bug favorites, such as God-Man, Lucky Ducky, and Super-Fun-Pak Comix. It also includes other comics Ruben Bolling created during those years: a two-page New Yorker spread, and six daily installments of the comic strip Cul de Sac.
TOM THE DANCING BUG, WITHOUT THE BAD ONES: THE VERY, VERY, VERY* BEST OF TOM THE DANCING BUG, 1990-2021. 31 years in the making, this book collects the top, most popular, most talked-about, most important, most Tom-the-Dancing-Bug comics in Tom the Dancing Bug's history. Imagine the thrill of reading and owning the award-winning and award-losing comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug, distilled into one handsome tome containing only its scientifically determined very, very, VERY* best.
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The back cover of Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens:
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