Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for January 13, 2022

Brutal.

You know, that small ragtag group of World War II soldiers isn’t really all that small.

But it is very ragtag.

There was Dallas, from Phoenix; Cleveland – he was from Detroit; and Tex… well, I don’t remember where Tex come from.

Raisin ETs. Strangest alien invasion ever!

That ragtag group would later reunite after the war to form the perfect team for one last heist. All they needed was to recruit One-eyed Johnny, Bucktooth Barry, Gilles “Le Grand Fromage” Sanchez, Wolfboy Willie, Zombie-leg Zelda, 80s Kid, Super Bro, Cyborg Ninja, Tom Hanks…

I was just recently thinking about the Epic/Brutal Report!

The Ghost of James Caan is just a head, isn’t he? So how did he help them fix a tire? With his teeth?

These always remind me of Norm McDonalds roast of Bab Sagat.

There’s always room for Bessie. Fun fact – in the Crusades, soldiers would take favourite farm animals with them, and not as food (early on anyway).

Very funny, the whole thing, hard to choose the winner, but I’d go for “Chimp Vacuums” the band.

But where is the Idiot Time Traveller today? Far off in the future maybe.

Look, I grew up on a steady of diet of G I Combat and Sgt. Rock comic books, and I can assure everybody here that the ragtag group above appeared in one or more issues, even Baby Jenkins. See, he was too light to set off landmines, could travel “under the radar,” and was the right size for missions that involved getting into tight places, such as a biological warfare operation that involved carrying a seriously soiled diaper down the barrel of a Panzer tank and depositing it in the crew compartment, nasty but very effective. I’ll stop.

Rich guy Von Hoppington? In the service? Wouldn’t he rather be at home counting his piles of money?