Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 01, 2013
July 26, 2013
August 02, 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 lucky ducky the poor little duck who's rich in luck! ducky: hey, a quarter! pow hound: gimme that quarter!! hey... press: this'll be great on youtube! hound: the liberal media'll have a field day! oh, no! it's already started! who can help me?! rich guy pounds poor guy! poult: how 'bout me?! hound: james k. poult... unbiased media chicken! poult: i'll use my tiny media outlets to get the real story out! wasn't it convenient for lucky ducky to get beaten up right at election time? fox news poult: lucky ducky was obviously faking his head wounds! james k. poult so hollingsworth hound beat up a duck... ...it's not like he drove someone into a river, or stained someone's dress... woman: hey! bill: uh... hound: james k. poult was great! now let's see what the liberal media says... tv: ...the evening news. many see the smack-down as an attempt to teach lucky ducky to fight for himself. ...while thers say it was sort of mean and perhaps motivated by greed. hound: auggh! liberal bias! ducky: gotcha! the end
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jnik23260 over 11 years ago
Good takeoff on the conservative bird with a Presidential name!
radams36 over 11 years ago
The existence of Mallard Fillmore is a complete mystery to me. Never mind it’s feckless and risible political extremism – it’s just plain NOT funny at all. At least, not in the way it means to be.
Vermont Premium Member over 11 years ago
Trolling the Mallard Fillmore daily strip was less fun than I’d thought it would be. The wingnuts posting there genuinely think it’s funny; stirring up trouble among a bunch of sad and lonely people there wasn’t such a great idea.
catzilla23 over 11 years ago
I read both Mallard Fillmore and Tom the Dancing Bug, both have their unfunny moments, neither are influential enough to change my opinion on anything. In general both are amusing.
chromosome Premium Member over 11 years ago
Besides disagreeing with most of what the MF strip is all about, I find it a wast of good art talent. The artist can obviously draw well but chooses to go with the same expression each day (looking at the reader with a cynical tip of the eye), and the liberals he portrays are just the fluffy, air-headed end of the spectrum.
Tuebor over 11 years ago
The irony is that Bruce Tinsley (the MF artist) probably owes much of his income to Garry Trudeau. Some papers have Doonesbury on the editorial page instead of the comics page. They then need a conservative strip to avoid seeming like they have a liberal bias, so they stick Mallard Fillmore there too.