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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.
Have fun, kids!
Enjoy. And as always, sweet dreams.
Carlos Diaz
June 26th, 2014
Past Episodes
EP 13: BOB HAS AWAKEN
EP 12: TOM IS SLIGHTLY UPSET
EP 11: TOM LOVES HIS GAMMA
EP 12: TOM IS SLIGHTLY UPSET
EP 11: TOM LOVES HIS GAMMA
