Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for June 18, 2010
June 11, 2010
June 25, 2010
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug's Super-Fun-Pak Comix Edited by Ruben Bolling Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time Traveler From 1909 Percival: I have traveled through time with this urgent mission...TO KILL HITLER! Man: Um...Hitler is dead. Percival: Then my work here is done. Here is a penny. Get me a sarsaparilla. Marital Mirth Man: Take my wife... Man: And by that I mean: take her physicall from me, I beg of you, for I utterly despise her. Guy At Starbucks Writing A Screenplay Man: Maybe if I position it this way, someone will notice... Man: Oh, I think she sees! Come on, ask me about it! Ask me! Woman: Excuse me, are you using this chair? Man: No...no, go ahead. Three-Panel Biographies Pablo Picasso was born in the city of Malaga, Spain, on October 25, 1881. He was the first child of an art professor of aristocratic ancestry. Then he became a famous painter, then he died choking on a chalupa. Captain Dynamo & Paper Towel Man Captain Dynamo: This should finish the job! Now, where's Paper Towel Man! Villain: One step closer, and Paper Towel Man gets it! Paper Towel Man: Don't listen to him, Captain Dynamo! Captain Dynamo: Paper Towel Man! Not again! The Seven Stages of An Actor's Career 1. Man: Who's James Caan? 2. Man: Get me James Caan! 3. Man: Get me a James Caan-type! 4. Man: Get me the ghost of James Caan! 5. Man: Isn't James Caan still alive? 6. Man: Get the ghost of James Caan out of my office! 7. James Caan: Sorry about that. He's leaving.
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Withan over 14 years ago
What? No BP?
jnik23260 over 14 years ago
Give Ruben a week.
LHPuttgrass over 14 years ago
At least once a week, I try to use “By the ghost of James Caan, this will not stand!” in conversation.
Tommy1733 over 14 years ago
Fantastic! TDB, you are the wind beneath my wings.
mrsullenbeauty over 14 years ago
I loved it. So much bang for the buck.
tobybartels over 14 years ago
{A 1909 penny could be worth a lot!} Yes, I’ll take it and get you a sarsaprilla. We call it root beer now, it’s really the same thing. It has high-fructose corn syrup for strong bones and healthy moral fibre, trust me.
later …
Hey, this idiot time traveller gave me a 2006 penny that he found on the ground just a moment before talking to me! Or am I the idiot now?
Charles Brobst Premium Member over 14 years ago
Pablo needed a talking dog to tell him to step away from the chalupa.
jpozenel over 14 years ago
Good work Dunwoody!
JFStan over 14 years ago
We need a spinoff of the “Screenplay” strip called “Douchebag in Starbuck’s showing off his iPad”. :)
number9dream over 14 years ago
I didn’t know that Picasso’s father was Confederate General A. P. Hill.
tobybartels over 14 years ago
Yes! And also his mother was Napoleon Bonaparte (although it is difficult to recognise him in this picture).