Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for April 16, 2020

C’mon, Maltby… you don’t need to put on a sweater to act like an insufferable douche!

And no, I don’t think they were laughing with him.

I guess clothes don’t make the man after all.

This retcon craze is starting to get out of hand.

Louis Maltby’s brain would later rewrite his memory of the second-last panel to him receiving a toilet swirly while the perpetrator laughs with a deep guffaw showing exactly too much of his gums. This is known as the Holden Caulfield Effect.

All those positives easily destroyed by one negative. A spin doctor would assume Steve-o meant lunch.xD

I once again have to call out Ruben for plagiarizing my seventh-grade life with this thinly-disguised “Louis Maltby” character of his. I want restitution!!!

He’s only still a loser if he allows one terd to spoil his new attitude.

Ah, adolescence! They years they desperately try to “fit in” and simultaneously “stand out”. No wonder teens are so screwed up.

Took a mo for the penny to drop—the images in the panels with wavy outlines are Maltby’s imagination. Real life refuses to cooperate.

I feel for the kid. When I scan old photos of myself, I take the zits out, and feel like I’m keeping a promise to my younger self.

Huh! I was so sure that sweater would work for him.