Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for February 11, 2011
February 04, 2011
February 18, 2011
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling "The Education of Louis" Girl: Louis? Um, I know I never really talked to you, but I heard about your parents... Louis: Yeah. Girl: I'm so sorry. Girl: Did they catch the truck driver? Louis: Yup. Turns out he was drunk. Girl: How did you find out? Louis: Well, they went out to dinner, and when they were late coming back, I knew something was wrong. Louis: Did Ms. Hamster ask about my book report? Girl: LOUIS! YOU obviously don't have to do any of that now! Not even the Ecology project! Girl: So...what will you do now? Louis: I dunno. Live with my grandparents in Boston, I guess. Louis: But they may be too old...my uncle's family lives in Phoenix, but I don't want to go there. Louis: My cousins are babies, and when we visited once, the kids out there seemed really weird. Louis: I might sell the house. Use the money to run away... Girl: OH, LOUIS! DON'T DO IT! DON'T GO AWAY! Father: Hi, Louis. We're home. Louis: Where were you? You're late! Mother: Louis, take it easy. We said we'd be home around 9:00. It's 9:06! Louis: Whatever.
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raben about 13 years ago
You’ve been watching me my whole life to get material for Louis Maltby, haven’t you. Also you’re telepathic. Get out of my head!
pbarnrob about 13 years ago
Hmmm… Not showing image since just after midnight PST; huh?
NJMurphy55 about 13 years ago
No image? Do this:
Right-click on the line ‘Tom the Dancing Bug’ (under the title, above the share/add to/, etc. buttons) and ‘save link as’ to download the comic.
jose3m about 13 years ago
I don’t see the comic and when I try the download thing I get a grainy, 4 MB TIFF file that cuts off most of the right side of the comic. BUT MAYBE THAT’S PART OF THE JOKE!
Larry Miller Premium Member about 13 years ago
Drawn with disappearing ink?
rehling about 13 years ago
I’m getting just the colors: http://i53.tinypic.com/4tlqwi.gif
yumitori about 13 years ago
Wow, you mean I’m not the only one who has free-form fantasies like that?
MrBawn about 13 years ago
Here it is on Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/09/tom-the-dancing-bug-35.html
person918 about 13 years ago
Bolling explains on his blog that this is the first week both boing boing and gocomics made him upload the comic himself (instead of e-mailing it to them for upload), with disastrous results
Tommy1733 about 13 years ago
You can see the comic on his blog, http://gocomics.typepad.com/tomthedancingbugblog/ It is yet another chart-topper IMHO
GESWho about 13 years ago
For me, the problem is the image is a .tiff image. Not all browsers can display the image in this format. But I could download a very good copy of it with the right-click, Save-as thing and then previewed it on my desktop.
raben about 13 years ago
@Radish the kibitzer: Aha! I knew it!
ickymungmung about 13 years ago
Got here late. Image clean. Words legible. Drama succinct. Humanity revealed. My folks never went anywhere, and suddenly when they did I was certain they were dead on the freeway. Freedom isn’t as much fun with carcasses, imaginary or not.