Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for January 31, 2013
January 25, 2013
February 01, 2013
Transcript:
enjoy this classic tom the dancing bug every thursday panels from the annals of the tom the dancing bug archive check back every friday for a fresh, brand new tom the dancing bug! tom the dancing bug by ruben bolling billy dare boy adventurer with quentin in -smugglers' cape- ch. mvlxx: deus ex machina! as you'll recall from last week, prof. nefastu has put billy in a horrific deathtrap! rrrrrrrr billy: as if walls with deadly spike sclosing in on my isn't enough... rrrrrr billy: ...i'm also being lowered into a pit of crocodiles! how can i possibly get out of this? nothing to do but wait for the end. rrrrr but at that moment, zillions of light-years away, on planet xeq... ...the omnipotent super-hero god-man slightly shifts his weight... ...and suddenly billy is on a beach in costa rica! billy: huh? what happened?! i've been suddenly rescued by some force utterly outside the context of this narrative! how... unsatisfying. and just then, god-man emits a small belch... ...and suddenly: billy: where did all the years go, helen? helen: i don't know, billy.
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el8 about 11 years ago
Hope he doesn’t break wind.
tudza2 about 11 years ago
Yeah, it would be terrible if wind didn’t work anymore.
crlinder about 11 years ago
Huh? And all this time I thought it was just the butterfly effect….
The Real Zarth Arn about 11 years ago
“Does God really move in mysterious ways, or does he walk normally”
— Woody Allen
snugharborman-catalog about 11 years ago
I wish He would put ME on a beach in Costa Rica (but as a human being, as I am now or maybe a lot younger and very rich and good-looking, but NOT as a starfish or clam or something helpless and edible and the right to change my mind if I don’t like the change but still get to keep the money…)