This week’s comic is Lucky Ducky, in “Red Flags,” IN WHICH Hollingsworth Hound is really red-pilled.
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I’ve been building to this huge reveal in the Lucky Ducky universe for nineteen years. Here is the very first Lucky Ducky comic, from 2002.
Now it all makes sense, right?
You might have noticed that Lucky Ducky died in this, his very first comic. But we all know how non-permanent death is in comic book universes.
Oldest trick in the comic book.
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “News of the Times: Cure for All Disease Discovered - Release Date Slated for 2002” (from 1996).
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from these two (TWO!!) installments (from 2005).
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For the record, The Cutest Thing Ever was drawn when my kids were 7, 5, and 3 years old.
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Hey, I’m offering to re-draw an entire Tom the Dancing Bug comic (one of two options: this week’s Lucky Ducky, or a comic from earlier this year, Q-Nuts: It’s the Great Storm, Charlie Brown) to benefit Alice’s Kids, a non-profit that provides targeted financial assistance to children in need.
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That’s it for this week. Plenty of comics for your perusal.
There will be no Otis picture this week, as he is recovering from a surgery that is ubiquitous for puppies, but is nevertheless traumatic. He asks that you respect his privacy at this time.
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Rb
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