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'''''Tom the Dancing Bug''''' is a weekly [[Satire|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 [[Absurdism|absurdist humor]].

[https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug 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.
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* [[Comically Invincible Hero]]: God-Man.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Lampshaded '''hard''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130804011437/http://lost.co.nz/library/godman/strips/25-Billy_Dare_Smugglers_Cape_chapter_MVLXX.html here].
* [[Expy]]: James K Poult is a satire on [[Mallard Fillmore]]
* [[Gay Conservative]]: A panel from [http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2007/10/27/ 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.

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