TOM THE DANCING BUG: In Which Lucky Ducky and the Houndsville 99% Declare Class Warfare!!

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• [snagglepuss]

  Yep. That’s just about right.

• [Mark_Frauenfelder]

  A beautiful distillation!

• [Moriarty]

  You guys know there is no such organization, right? Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

  • [sincarne]

    No, we all think that ducks and dogs talk. Thank you for clearing this up.

  • [Mister44]

    Who paid you to say that?

    • [Moriarty]

      You got me. I’m an undercover operative of the Illuminati/global Jewish conspiracy/secret 1%ers club.

      • [Mister44]

        Can… can you put in a good word for me? I can shill with the best of them.

  • [Nadreck]

    I thought it was called “The Republican Party”.

    • [Moriarty]

      inb4 “500 people liked this.”

  • [bob d]

    You guys know there is no such organization, right? Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

    You mean “Occupy Houndsville” doesn’t exist?!

  • [Matthew Harris]

    No such organization as what? Occupy Wall Street? The Republican Party? International capitalism?

    • [Moriarty]

      “No such organization as what?”

      Rich people.

  • [jarmstrong]

    Correct.  Whatever organization this guy belongs to simply does not exist.

• [durfsmurf]

  This is more well-written than the Lucky Ducky ones about money supply and stuff like that. Regardless of whether or not you agree with it, it’s a good comic. Although the punchline could be a little better, I think the metaphor of H. Hound being “hit” by Ducky should have been stronger, like him clutching his chest and falling. “ow, right in the feelings”

  • [Matthew Harris]

    I get your thinking, but the lameness of his response is the whole point of the joke so I don’t think it would have helped.

  • [Deidzoeb]

    “ow, right in the feelings”

    Sorry, durf, but leave the comedy to the professionals.

• [Gary Peare]

   More spats in comics! Also, more accurate depiction of spats in comics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spats_%28footwear%29

• [Navin_Johnson]

  And the 1% just keeping getting richer and richer, by leaps and bound over the rest of us.
  New CBO report:  Their income grew by 275% from ’79 to ’07  during the same period it was 40% for the middle class, and 18% for the poor….

  http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-top-1-getting-richer-congress-researchers-report-20111026,0,2275882.story

• [sheepdawg]

  He missed the last panel, in which the houndsville cops drag him from his seat and beat the sh-t out of him. #oo = Occupy Oakland

• [Recluse]

  Why doesn’t that lazy Lucky Ducky just get a job????

  ….after all.. he has a big BILL to pay (Badumbum).

  • [Navin_Johnson]

    The job market isn’t what it’s quacked up to be…

• [Daniel]

  Wow, only one conservative complaining that BoingBoing dares to publish a cartoon strip with a liberal bias…that’s got to be some kind of record.

  • [Moriarty]

    It seems like you must be talking about me (unless some other comment got deleted), but I’m not a conservative and that is not my complaint. And it’s not really complaining so much as teasing.

    • [Daniel]

      Sorry, must have misinterpreted “you guys”.

• [xenphilos]

  It’s funny that conservatives are generally against welfare except in the case of a bailout, which is corporate welfare if you simultaneously consider corporations as people.

• [jackbird]

  I’m just astonished that TTDB actually contained humor for a change.

• [Matthew Jones]

  Those dogs should be wearing spats… and monocles.

• [Teller]

  The highest concentration of millionaires in the US: Los Alamos, NM.
  Road trip!

• [benher]

  Look, can someone clear something up for me once and for all? 
  Just like in Duckburg… I mean, you know… Can dogs and ducks breed together? 
  I mean, Mickey has a dog and his friend is a dog… Ruben, as the defacto heir to the style, can you or perhaps Percival Dunwoody answer? (in comic form?)

  • [Stefan Jones]

    “Can dogs and ducks breed together?”

    Breed, as in successfully create children, no.

    Recreationally . . . well, there’s this place downtown . . .

• [charonme]

  why not mention the most powerful tactic: “lobby for more regulation, keeping potential competitors out of the game” ?