Saturday, April 13, 2024

Bob Has Awaken

 









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Can you believe it!? My favorite drunk spiders make a triumphant return after ten years to make fun of one of the biggest movies of the year! I love the Dune series, though not enough to snort cayenne pepper. I have a lot more spider shenanigans to write about, so hopefully they'll be around for a while.

Have fun!

And as always, sweet dreams.

Carlos Diaz
4/13/2024


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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Tom Is Slightly Upset





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Hello, friends!  A lot has happened in the past few months, some of it really bad, but mostly good.  I’m turning a new, creative leaf and I’m using my new-found excitement for life in general back to making things, especially spider comics!  A lot of this episode of Tom and Bob involves some referential humor from previous episodes; Bob’s highly dysfunctional relationship with Cindy and Tom’s inexplicable obsession with HBO’s “True Blood”, which explains why he was so upset with Bob overwriting his DVR.

True Blood’s season premiere was last Sunday night, and I can say I was sincerely underwhelmed.  This is the last season of the show that I detailed in Tom and Bob #4, but I was not excited about it.  I always considered the show to be campy fun while being hyper gory monster on monster action.  But for some reason, it wasn’t nearly as fun, just…depressing.  Oh, sure, lots of vampires meeting a gruesome end, but the storyline in general was just meh.  I don’t care.  Once again, the show tries to make the Sookie romance angle do all the heavy lifting, but I just so sincerely don’t care.  It was boring, not very compelling, and just plain bad.  Maybe the show will pick up, maybe it won’t.  All I know is Season 5 of Game of Thrones isn’t until next April, so I have to wait!  Speaking of which…

I love Game of Thrones.  Season 4 just ended last week, and now I feel the vacuum left behind last Sunday and every Sunday for the next 10 months or so.  The theme picture for this episode of Tom and Bob comes from a site that no longer exists called beautifuldeath.com, which was an amazing site where after each episode of Game of Thrones, a thematic poster is made that highlights a key aspect of that episode.  I did manage to find another site that is showing all the posters, however. They’re spectacular! The one in particular I used was from season three, episode nine, “Red Wedding”. 

WARNING, POSSIBLE GoT SPOILERS AHEAD!

For those of you who’ve seen it or heard of it or have been inundated with references to it, that episode of Game of Thrones featured the savage deaths of MANY central characters during the eponymous wedding.  I’m pretty sure the internet melted down that night with distraught fans voicing their displeasure.  I apologize if I spoiled that for anyone who is currently working their way through Game of Thrones, but I think I’ve been vague enough to not let any real spoilers get through.  Tom’s final declaration is an homage to that and my love for the show.  

 Have fun, kids!

Enjoy. And as always, sweet dreams.

Carlos Diaz
June 26th, 2014



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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Tom Loves His Gamma







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I have no idea why Tom is so shocked; I mean, he has met Bob!!  

In honor of the Desolation of Smaug, I decided that Tom is related to Ungoliant.  I mean, Tom is related to pretty much all spiders; he's got a big family.  I took my kids to see Smaug, and afterwards when we went to Home Depot, we recited the eponymous dragon's narcissistic soliloquy:  My teeth are like SWORDS!!!  My claws are like SPEARS!!!  My wings can create a HURRICANE!!!  And my breath--DEATH!!!!!  I think the shoppers at Home Depot were not as impressed with the dragon as we were! 

I loved the Cumberbatch Smaug in the movie, but as a child who grew up in the 70's, the cat-dragon in the old Rankin-Bass cartoon version of the Hobbit will always be my Smaug!

I have been lax in my duties as the casual observer of alcoholic spiders.  But I promise there's more to come!

Enjoy. And as always, sweet dreams.

Carlos Diaz
January 18th, 2014



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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Tom and Bob go to Australia









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I know it's been a while since I put up a new Tom and Bob, but this is another favorite of mine.  It introduces two more characters to Tom and Bob's world; Jose` and Dundee.  Once again, I was tasked with finding appropriate pictures of a tarantula and a funnel web spider, and once again I had a few days of bad sleep dreaming of horny tarantulas and angry funnel web spiders...

I also spent a lot of time on Australian websites in an attempt to get Dundee's vernacular correct, because that's the level of dedication I have to deliver the finest in drunken arachnid humor.  

I spent last weekend in St. Augustine attending the Gentlemen of the Road concert featuring one of my favorite bands ever, Mumford and Sons!  


I was blown away by their talent!  It was sort of a dream come true to actually get the chance to so Mumford and Sons live.


Enjoy. And as always, sweet dreams.

Carlos Diaz
September 19th, 2013



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Monday, August 19, 2013

Bob Should Get His Own Nyquil







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I really can't explain why Bob likes singing Whitney Houston songs so much.

For those veterans of the internet, you'll recognize Bill; he was that famous spider who for some unfathomable reason was in a little sandbox and then used his front legs to start covering his head with sand....or cocaine, whichever way you choose to see it.  For a disgusting little nope, it's absolutely adorable.

Enjoy. And as always, sweet dreams.

Carlos Diaz
August 19th, 2013



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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Bob's Big Surprise: PART 2







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Enjoy. And as always, sweet dreams.

Carlos Diaz
August 3rd, 2013



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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Bob's Big Surprise: PART 1







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Summer is almost over, and I couldn't be more excited!  This summer has been a challenging one for me, many things happened, as does in life, and yet I still manage to get out of bed every morning...barely.  However, the summer isn't over for my favorite arachnids.  I apologize that this episode took longer than anticipated to publish.  Certainly Bob has bigger problems than I do. 

One of the bright spots this summer was the movie Pacific Rim.  It's the Citizen Kane of giant robots fighting giant monsters movies!  Monsters come to Earth through a temporal rift at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and start tearing shit up.  In order to combat these cyclopean creatures, humans build equally large robots piloted by humans to fight the monsters in vicious, and therefore awesome, giant claw to giant robotic fist fighting action!  I won't pretend that it is fine cinema, but it is what it is, a fun ride!


Enjoy. And as always, sweet dreams.

Carlos Diaz
July 27th, 2013



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