Who will speak for the unborn guns?

Will you?

Jul 01, 2022

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This week’s comic is “A Gun Tale,” an unfortunate parable.

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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is Billy Dare, in “Desperate Escape,” featuring the NARRATRON (from 2007).

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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2016).

DID YOU KNOW? The above is the canonical version of this comic, as published on Boing Boing, Gocomics, and on all of Tom the Dancing Bug’s print clients. But just for fun, and for the sake of accuracy and completeness, when this comic was published on Daily Kos that week, “Schrödinger’s Cat” had a different ending.

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Wishing you a happy Fourth of July weekend, if you celebrate such things,

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Volume 5 - Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor (June, 2022)!!

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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