Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 24, 2018

Why does the “dark” helmet turn white in the third panel?

That is FrankenSTEEN!

Original punchline to “Ah, Life”;

But, doctor! You don’t understand! I am Pannichi!

Pauline (above) is right. The story, by Mary Shelley, is titled “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.” In her book, Victor Frankenstein is the scientist who cobbled the monster together and gave it life. Also, NeedaChuckle (above) is wrong re the pronunciation. In English, it’s “Frank-en-stine.” The “ei” diphthong in German is pronounced as the long version of the German vowel “e” which is pronounced exactly like the long version of the English vowel “i.” The last syllable of Frankenstein’s name rhymes with “wine,” NOT with “mean.”

“We’re all Frankensteins, son.”

Is anybody not offended by the lewd exposed sea monkeys and nobody attempting to cloak their naked bodies?

Percival Dunwoody may be an idiot, but he’s no fool.

So Cody is the Epic one and Zach is the Brutal one, I guess. Who knew?

“To treat your depression, you must find a way to laugh! A new Super-Fun-Pak Comix was posted today. Go online and read it.”

“But Doctor! You don’t understand! I am Jim Davis, creator of Garfield!”

I remember someone who bought some Sea-Monkeys. Apparently he got a bad batch.

@PoodleGroomer

Usually the same comic books that had the ads for sea monkeys also had the ads for X-ray specs, so……….

The ability to control all sea monkey shrimp (as the subhead implies) would be an interesting superpower. A kind of very weak subset to Aquaman’s ability to make all sea life obey his every command (even if it means their certain demise).

The challenge would be coming up with a way to exploit this ‘power’. Clogging up water intake pipes? That’d be only temporary, seeing as any concentration of these tiny heroes would be a strong lure for almost any fish out there.

Hmm.

The ‘Apocalypse Brothel’ sounds like a hit Netflix series. (Maybe you should try and pitch that one, Ruben.)