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Happy Fall, dear readers.
This week’s comic is “Shluff! It Sleeps Among Us…”
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My condolences to my U.K. readers and royal enthusiasts everywhere on the passing of Queen Elizabeth. My own father was once a subject of The British Monarchy, but I know next to nothing about the royal family. My crass, American feelings were summed up in the only Tom the Dancing Bug comic on the topic (I think), the heavily researched “Descendeant of Ancient English Tyrants to Wed,” from 2011, when Prince William (I had to check the name) was married.
I thought I’d used the phrase “subjugating the masses” as a reference to this Monty Python sketch, but I just watched it and it’s never uttered.
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is HOLLINGSWORTH HOUND, in “Starve the Beast,” with a cameo appearance by Lucky Ducky (from 2010).
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2019).
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Stay well, stay free,
Rb
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Volume 5 - Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor!!
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TOM THE DANCING BUG: EAT THE POOR, VOLUME 5 IN THE COMPLETE TOM THE DANCING BUG -- 2007-2011. Clover Press’s Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program marches on with the fifth chronological volume (and third volume published to date), covering every installment of the award-winning (and two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist) comic strip, from 2007-2011. This volume covers the years of Obama’s election and The Great Recession, with a particular focus on Lucky Ducky, "the Poor Little Duck Who’s Rich in Luck.” But the topics also range far from the political and topical, into waffle irons, drunk shirtless guys, and particle accelerators.
And of course, it also features Tom the Dancing Bug favorites like God-Man, Super-Fun-Pak Comix, Billy Dare, Boy Adventurer, and Charley the Australopithecine. It also includes other comics Ruben Bolling created during those years: a Recession-themed comic created for Harper’s Magazine; and the legendary, insane Toy Story/Cormac McCarthy mashup he did for The Village Voice.
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