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Comic Strip: Tom The Dancing Bug

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.

This comic contains examples of:

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.