Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for February 07, 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 a line of explorers slashes its way through a dense african jungle... as the come to a small clearing, the leader, professor tibbins, suddenly stops. tibbins: good lord... oop: what is it, professor? oop: look closely at that troop of apes feeding. tibbins: one of them appears to be a half-naked feral... man! assistant: y-you're right! oop: professor, could it be... that he was orphaned as a baby in this fierce and brutal land -- and raised by these apes as their own? tibbins: perhaps, coleman. but observe how he clings to the back of that ape. i must get a closer look! follow me around this tree! as i thought! look in this magnifying glass! assistant: next to him, on the ape's hide: bugs! tibbins: precisely! this man was raised since a babe not by apes... but by ape-lice!! zan-tarr king of the ape lice next to civilize the parasitic heart!
el8 almost 12 years ago
Now you’re just nit picking, doc.
ajnotales almost 12 years ago
Ape lice, or ape crabs? If we’re gonna pic nits, let’s be specific…
rnmontgomery almost 12 years ago
Could it be – the first time this strip has not oozed political weirdness???
lafayetteann almost 12 years ago
I’d rather have the political weirdness. Ape lice? That’s just plain weird.
paintking almost 12 years ago
Bunk unganee. Ungawa!!!
snugharborman-catalog almost 12 years ago
So Edgar Rice Burroughs had it wrong all along?