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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