Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for January 12, 2023

Don’t mess with Billy Dare’s narrative!

Think about the air ducts you’ve seen. How many are big enough to crawl through, not completely coated with dust, and sturdy enough to support the weight of the hero (plus, usually, the weight of his equipment)?

When suddenly… Billy decided to control the narrative!

The suspended moment when I got the punch line, was superb!

ALL narrators are unreliable.

- Gene Wolfe

Now that was funny.

Circa 1939, I think, the recap narration at the beginning of movie serial chapters from Columbia Pictures routinely claimed that the cliffhanger faced by the hero in previous chapter had been inescapable, “dooming him to certain death” — even though in the next second we saw that the hero actually did escape (or, more often, merely survived what should have killed him).

So Billy just shoots unarmed opponents in the back? Man, he’d make a good cop.

I wonder if Mr. and Mrs. Venom ever imagined this would happen when they sent their son through medical school.

When are the screws to the vent ON THE INSIDE?