Recent Comments

1. 3 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   They won’t like it, because it insults Russia. Ruben should have updated that part to China.

2. 7 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   I’m really upset at all of the replies engaging the claims in this comment. Some are right and some are wrong, but that’s not the point; the comment deserved no response other than whooosh. It is not a substantive comment.

3. 10 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   It’s not as if the word is inherently offensive. It was a medical term, and it’s being used here in a medical sense. But people started using it as an insult, and the medical community changed its terminology. After that, it was used only as an insult, and that’s when it needed to be retired entirely. The same thing happened to ‘imbecile’ earlier, and the same thing will happen to ‘developmentally disabled’ some day.

4. 10 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   My prefrontal cortex allows me to understand how the Electoral College works, so I won’t be wasting my vote on Joe Biden. Hopefully Ruben Bolling gets his amygdala back in the meantime.

5. 10 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   A nice allusion to the Condescending Democrat Fallacy at the end there.

6. about 1 year ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   There were a couple other shorts (as well as ancillary material like advertising) released in 1928, so those are public domain now. The name is still protected as a trademark, but that mainly means that you can’t advertise with it, not that you can’t use it at all.

7. about 1 year ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   He had gloves on in some of the 1928 advertising posters, so they’re public domain too. (They were yellow, not white, but this is a black-and-white comic, so it should be fine.)

8. about 1 year ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Both issues have scans available on archive dot org (search for “Air Pirates Funnies”).

9. about 1 year ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Hey Ruben, I see that you’re depicting Micky (and more to the point, his clothes) only in black and white, even in otherwise colour comics. But remember, he appeared in colour (red shorts, yellow shoes, green or blue hat) in 1928 advertising posters, so you don’t need to restrict yourself! And there were even posters showing him in (yellow) gloves, so you can use those too if you like.

10. about 2 years ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

    I was thinking ‘boo-berry pie’, ‘go to the moovies’, and ‘it was a chew-chew train’, but they all work (although the punning element in ‘I scream’ doesn’t rhyme with the others).

    ‘Boo! meringue pie’ is a rare triple pun; I’d phrase the question as ‘What’s an Australian ghost’s favourite kind of pie?’ for that answer.