Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for January 06, 2012
December 30, 2011
January 13, 2012
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug's Super-Fun-Pak Comix Edited by Ruben Bolling In The Basement Boy #1: Yes! Direct hit! Boy #2: Oh, no! I hit a village! Boy #3: Pass the Doritos! Boy #1: Whoa -- it's 3Am! We'd better call it a night, dudes! DRONE OPERATIONS U.S. Air Force Boy #2: What's on for tomorrow? Boy #1: Pakistan, Yemen, and Las Cruces, N.M. A Home With Dr. Professor Dr. Professor: This place is a mess! How can you ever find anything? Son: Aw, Dad! Dr. Professor: And this closet...HEY! Dr. Professor: So that's where the dark matter is! I have to call the observatory! Classix Comix Not a substitute for reading the text or for classroom discussion of the text. The Sun Also Rises Hemingway: The sn has set, my friends. It is all over. Goodbye. Man: ? Hemingway: The world, in a permanent, apocalyptic darkness! Hemingway: Well, what do you know! NEXT - Hemingway: The sun has set, my friends... Superhero Fantasies For The Middle-Aged Man: Wow! Your strength represents an adolescent wish for power and fairness? Monster: AARG NO! RIP RIP Man: Undirected adolescent rage? Monster: NO! Monster: I'm going to rearrange parked cars to make a spot! Fun Science Facts For The Depressed Modern science and irrefutable mathematics have proven definitively... It is ALL YOUR FAULT. Incomprehensible Suffering Funnies Theo: Hey, Vincent, why is there a bandage on your ear? Vincent: What? Theo: I said, why is there a bandage on your ear? Vincent: What? Theo: WHY IS THERE A BANDAGE ON YOUR EAR? Vincent: You'll have to speak up, Theo. There's a BANDAGE on my ear. Plus, I'm suffering from a psychotic episode.
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cnfree69 almost 13 years ago
Yup. All my fault. Or so the wife says….
Matthew Davis almost 13 years ago
Ah, Vincent, what a cut-up!
Malcolm Hall almost 13 years ago
I can’t wait for the Classix Comix version of A Farewell to Arms.
rpG Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Ruben knows his Van Gogh: http://www.artlyst.com/articles/rare-theo-van-gogh-portrait-discovered
wilburgarrod almost 13 years ago
To bad La Cruses N.M. you are going to be Droned.
george almost 13 years ago
Chikuku – There’s also the thesis that Van Gogh didn’t really commit suicide but was accidentally shot by a couple local kids and he covered for them.
dputhoff almost 13 years ago
I’m waiting for the Classix Comix version of Ulysses.
jgreathead almost 13 years ago
He’s left out the idiot time traveler. I’m disappointed.
ickymungmung almost 13 years ago
Wieswald—I saw a piece on that very subject (60 Minutes? Frontline?) and the probability of death by another seemed plausible, even though van Gogh had numerous “issues” and had on occasion been suicidal.