Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 18, 2016
Transcript:
Billy Dare boy adventure with quentin Smugglers' Cape CH< MCDXXI: HOT on the trail! Criiney! The seat is still warm! Lets go, Quentin.... We can catch Dr. Mordu! Is that what you want Billy? Billy: What do you mean? ...and I didn't know you could talk! Bird: I can't talk! For these purposes, Im merely the personification of your inner struggle! Billy: Inner struggle? Bird: Looks Its been 1,421 chapters and we still haven't even seen Dr. Mordu or Smuggler's Cape! Bird: Isn't it time you realized that you're not chasing More-- yore running form yourself? Huh? I don't have inner struggles! Im a two dimensional cartoon character! Bird: Theres no such thing! For example, why do you always rebuff the advances of your neighbor, Sally Sweet? Billy: Isn't your obsession with More a convenient way for covering for you latent homosexuality? BillyL whats tha? Bird: Or Maybe chasing this mysterious powerful stranger its a way of running toward...Hey! Billy: Hold still! whats this strange device that was under your wing? As I thought! Dr. Mordu must have planted this Post-modern Literary Device on you-- to sidetrack me for ten panels, while he escaped! Bird: squawk! Next: Deconstruction on the high seas!
pumaman over 8 years ago
Oh that clever Dr. Mordu!
androgenoide over 8 years ago
A post modernist bot wouldn’t need a lot of processing power.
Kip W over 8 years ago
Post-modernism is a mirror, of sorts, and gains as much or as little energy as it requires from the beholder.
Lethea over 8 years ago
That comic was from 15 years ago. He’s still chasing Dr. Mordu; and he’s still a teenager. Kind of like Peter Pan with identity issues.
jpozenel over 8 years ago
Diabolical?
Or just another of Billy’s recurring dreams?
Kip W over 8 years ago
Mordu, McGuffin, eh, what’s the diff? Apart from the lions, of course.
thedarryl over 8 years ago
heh heh… “Panels from the annals”