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Tom the Dancing Bug is a weekly satirical Comic Strip by Ruben Bolling (Pen Name for Ken Fisher). It mostly deals with current events in American politics from a liberal viewpoint, but sometimes it also ventures out into straight-up Post Modernism and/or absurdist humor.

The comic features a wide range of recurring characters and segments of which the most notable are:

• God-Man: Grandpa God as a Superhero. His solutions to His problems tends to be either overly complex or simple and, quite often, not all that well thought out.
• Billy Dare, Boy Adventurer: An Affectionate Parody of Tintin, which parodies Action Adventure Tropes.
• Lucky Ducky: A Duck who despite being poor and often going without job or home, always manages to unintentionally enrage his Arch Enemy and Unknown Rival, the obscenely wealthy businessman Hollingsworth Hound, who views any joy in his life, no matter how small, to happen at the expense of the rich.
• Super-Fun-Pak Comix: Parodies the Sunday funnies.
• The Ghost of James Caan: a giant silent floating James Caan head that haunts unexpected places. Instead of instilling fear he confuses the people he encounters who are all pretty sure that James Caan is not, in fact, dead. The living Caan himself will usually make an appearance to assure the world that he's fine and as confused as everyone else. As of the day after James Caan's death in real life, it is not yet known what will happen at the next appearance (if any) of the Ghost of James Caan.

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Tropes used in Tom the Dancing Bug include:

• Comically Invincible Hero: God-Man.
• Deus Ex Machina: Lampshaded hard here.
• Expy: James K Poult is a satire on Mallard Fillmore
• Gay Conservative: A panel from this strip is the current page image.
• God Mode Sue: Invoked and parodied with God-Man, who is omnipotent, omniscient, and can defeat His enemies by slightly moving His elbow.
• Fetus Terrible: Bad Fetus, a remorseless cop killer and terrorist.
• Loser Protagonist: The titular character of "Dinkle, The UnLovable Loser" who really is such a highly unpleasant and malevolent person, that it probably for the better that he never wins.