Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for July 12, 2013
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug's Super-Fun-Pak Comix Edited by Ruben Bolling Building Rooftop That Looks Vaguely Like A Face Building: My sentience is imagined by the man who lives across the street. Building: Yet without his imagination, I'd have no sentience at all. Secret-Identity Man Woman: Pete, aliens are attacking! Pete: This isn't a job for Pete Rangel! Pete: ...nor is it a job for Jack Hansen! Hillbilly Billy, Of The Hills Man: This is still a comic strip> Your stereotype has been an irrelevant anachronism for decades! Hillbilly Billy: I guess you haven't been reading...I now cook meth and enter toddlers in beauty pageants. A Voice From Another Dimension Dot: I move along this line, for what else could there be? Dot: Much more than you could fathom. Dot #2: Huh? Who said that? Dot: I speak to you from another plane. Dot #2: I must be imagining things... The Ghost of James Caan & Phil Collins, P.I.s Woman: My sister has gone missing. Woman: But I don't want to hire a rock superstar and the ghost of a living celebrity as detectives. Ghost of James Caan: Well, at least someday I'LL be the ghost of a DEAD celebrity. Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time Traveler From 1909 Percival: Adolf Hitler, I have time-traveled to kill you! Percival: Stop! I am YOU, from the future! Percival: What's this? Percival: I must stop you to prevent a greater tragedy! POW Percival: URK! Percival: NO! I'm from the further future! Hitler must DIE! POW Percival: NO! Adolf: This happens every day! How can I get any work done? Percival: DIE! Percival: NO!
kapock over 11 years ago
That rooftop may not look all that much like a face, but to be fair, that chimney smoke looks a lot like a thought cloud.
King_Shark over 11 years ago
Hitler’s desk’s completely bare, so it’s not like he wanted to get any work done anyway.
crlinder over 11 years ago
Nice nod to Flatland in “Voice from Another Dimension.”
fritzoid Premium Member over 11 years ago
Hoho! The line-dweller cannot FATHOM more than his vertical line, because a “fathom” is a measure of DEPTH!
This works on so many levels!
(Not that the line-dweller could perceive them! Hoho!)
hablano over 11 years ago
No way. Don’t you know the old saying, “Crystal meth, somebody’s got to cook it!”
Ushindi over 11 years ago
Man – I would HATE for me to come back from the future and kill myself!
ScubaHawk over 11 years ago
Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time Traveler from 1909 actually sounds like a good idea for a comic strip….