TOM THE DANCING BUG: God-Man and Human-Man Team Up to Fight Crime!!

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• [joeposts]

  Funny, but don’t you envy Human-Man’s obvious sense of spiritual fulfillment? I mean it won’t help him get out of that trunk, but he won’t die alone unless he has some kind of spiritual crisis in there, which actually seems likely. Huh.

  • [petertrepan]

    Besides, if no one believed in God-Man, people would do whatever they wanted. For instance, those gangsters might have, well…

    Point is, it’s good to believe in God-Man.

    • [Marion M. Sipos]

      You are confusing God-Man with Apple.

    • [malindrome]

      Без бога всё позволено?

      • [poeducker]

         Which is “Without God, everything is permitted ” in Russian.

        • [Won Word]

          How do you say, “with god, everything is permitted as long as you say the magic phrase, ‘it was god’s will,’ immediately after,” in Russian?

• [sweetcraspy]

  Is the sawdust bit of any significance?  Are wharf’s known for a sawdust smell?

  • [joeposts]

    No, but puke-stained floors in dive bars are. A little sawdusty, a little earthy, a little sour, surprisingly comfortable.

  • [Won Word]

    My childhood church had sawdust on the floor…

• [Navin_Johnson]

  God-Man works in mysterious ways.  It was just Human-Man’s time…

• [Mark Dow]

  No worries, God-Man tracks all iPhones.

  • [Ashen Victor]

     You are confusing God-Man with Apple…

    But it´s normal, many people does.

    • [petertrepan]

      Confuse God-Man with Apple? Or track all iPhones?

    • [Avram Grumer]

      You can tell the difference by Apple’s superior aesthetic design sense. 

      • [NelC]

        Now I’m wondering what features an iMan would have.

        • [ldobe]

           Wouldn’t he be white, and conform more-or-less to the golden ratio, and have rounded corners?

          I think Apple might just be a front for the Neo-Nazis now…

          Also he wouldn’t be able to think anything other than official thoughts downloadable on iTunes for $0.99 a mental step, or a full realization for $11.99

• [MrJM]

  If there’s no God-Man then who created Human-Man?  Huh? 

  Well, Huh?

  Gotcha!

  • [R J]

    uh Ruben Bolling …

    • [Navin_Johnson]

       Turtles all the way down!

    • [RJ]

       What’s up with that username?

      • [R J]

        Bullwinkle fan, Rocket J Squirrel, you?

      • [noah django]

        ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

  • [malindrome]

    It’s just Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles all the way down.

    • [Won Word]

      Wrong! They’re mutated, and we all know that mutations don’t work in evil-ution!

      CHECKMATE!1

• [UncaScrooge]

  If only Agnostic-Man were here!  Agnostic-Man!  Who, with the twin powers of Reason and Snark, becomes Teenage Atheist-Man!  Teenage Atheist-Man can mock Mega-churches in a single scoff!  He also knows where the release cord for the trunk is located!

  • [Navin_Johnson]

     He’s off arguing with Easily Angered Religious-Man

• [Vinnie Tesla]

  When did George W. Bush become a beat cop?

  • [Jasper Huxley]

    That was before his ill-fated journey to King’s Landing.

  • [Little]

    I was going to ask the same thing! I think Bush has been bugging Ruben to bring him back ever since Jan. 2009.

    Also, what’s that beige pillow-type thing behind Human-Man in panel 2?

    • [cameronhorsburgh]

      Is that an urn?

• [neddyo]

  I just love that it’s all just for a rich lady’s dog…

• [MattAtDoyle]

  Spoiler: God-Man is Human-Man’s father. No wait, God-Man was dead the whole time. No wait, God-Man was a figment of Human-Man’s imagination. No wait…

• [ocker3]

  Did he just get shot in the arm after he’d been captured? I remember that from the finale of a really fun movie, but just can’t remember the name!

• [bunnyvision]

  I really like that Human-Man’s superpowers are in comparison to the other great apes

• [chris jimson]

  I know how this cliff-hanger resolves itself: Human-Man uses his powers of lactose intolerance to overpower his captors with flatulence and diarrhea.  

• [benher]

  I can’t believe no one else said it:

  “It’s all part of God-man’s plan!”