Living On The Edge Bun Toons! YAY!

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Sometimes life presents you with a moment of greatness, and there is no choice but to step up and do the right thing.  Today’s Bun Toon is a shocking but true story of one such moment…and how your humble bunny blogger acted.

Try not to admire me too much.

Okay, part of that isn’t true.

I warned Claremont about the bus.  It’s not my fault he ignored me.

There were many other moments ALMOST as wonderful last weekend, and I think I’ve lost my wife to George Perez.  If only the convention organizers hadn’t misspelled my name on my table (they spelled it “H-E-R-B  T-R-I-M-P-E”) the weekend would have been perfect.

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Besides working together to create a moment of shame and remorse at my interview panel, Claremont and Grell have teamed up one other time.

If I didn’t think it would ruin someone else’s special moment, I’d go pick this issue up!

Oh, and now that I know that my fellow Quantum and Woody artist, Tom Fowler, reads this webcomic, I`m going to drop his name, just to tickle his ego.

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For last week’s unusual Bun Toon, click on the Rabbit Eared Neil Gaiman above

For the Bun Toon Archive, which almost never mentions Neil Gaiman, click the correct logo above

Grand Experiment Bun Toons! YAY!

Because mixing volatile chemicals will get you nothing but dead.

I’m on the road today, in Ottawa at the lovely Ottawa Convention, meeting with the many happy fans and perhaps one or two disgruntled ones.   But if there is lead in my pencil, paper on my lap and some kind of scanner within a hundred yards of me, I shall BUN TOON, my friends.  I SHALL BUN TOON.

I give you people 48 hours to make this Bun Toon the most viral one I’ve ever done.   You’ve got your work cut out for you, I’ve had a couple of toons that have had over thirty thousand readers…and those ones were actually funny.

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And now, the Neil Gaiman bonus moment:

I sincerely hope I didn’t photoshop this image just to increase the chances of this whole thing being reblogged.  That would be wrong.

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For last week’s SPECIAL Bun Toon, written and drawn by my eldest son, Kellam, click the cleverly altered logo above

For the Bun Toon Archive, which almost never mentions Neil Gaiman, click the correct logo above

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY Bun Toons! YAY!

It’s FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!  Hoo-hah!  This is like Christmas and Hallowe’en rolled into one jelly donut, and mainlined into your fan-brain.  I am joining in for the big day by spending my waking hours at STADIUM COMICS in Toronto, (499 Main Street South, Shoppers World Mall in Brampton) along with Ken Lashley, Marcus To, Adam Gorham, Agnes Garbowska and plenty more makers of super-heroes, cartoons and funnybooks… and I hope to see you all down there for sketches, delightful stories, and big grins on the faces of all the peoples.

Because I am out of the house early this morning, there’s no time for me to Bun Toon!  But rather than JUST running a repeat from yesteryear (which I do at the end of today’s post, scroll down below), I have a brand new, never before seen tale by my eldest son, Kellam, to keep you demanding net-surfers satisfied.  Who says this isn’t the golden age of Bun Toon nepotism?

No more ado.

Art Land presents “HELPING” by Kellam Templeton-Smith:

Because getting your kids to draw your comic strip is a tradition Bill Keane is far too dead to participate in any more.

This story was created in under twelve hours by my son at the most recent Comic Book Marathon, back in April.  The story and the art was completed in one sitting (except for bathroom breaks) while surrounded by dozens of equally devoted creators wrestling with their own muses.  I can barely write my own name when I’m in public, but Kellam soldiered on tirelessly for the duration and created this chilling tale, ad libbed on paper in one swell foop.

Whee.

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Since it’s FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, you get more than one bonus moment.

The two paintings above are by today’s fill-in Bun Tooner, my boy Kellam.  I think they’re both self-portraits, but admittedly, the bottom one – with the glasses – looks more like him.  Yes, he has big metal bolt-things sticking out of his ears sometimes.  They all do, these kids today.

(Kellam’s deviantart gallery:  Spartan Ideal)

Here’s LAST  YEAR’S FREE COMIC BOOK DAY BUN TOON:  The rules still apply, but the odds of a John Carter reference meaning anything in the future  dims with each passing hour.

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See you at Stadium Comics at SHOPPERS WORLD, Brampton.

Iron Man 3 has already come out, and my pre-cognitive-review was 100 % accurate! Click on last week’s Bun Toon and see how well my OTHER predictions do…

For the Bun Toon archive (always Free Comic Book Day around here), click the gratis rabbit

Summer Blockbuster Bun Toons! YAY!

The webcomic is free, but we make our money on the popcorn and soda

Hollywood relies on the summer blockbuster as an integral part of their fiscal year.  Without the hundreds of millions worth of income the summer brings the studios, there would be no money left for the budgets of next year’s miserable bombs.  So if you want any more Green Lanterns or John Carters to be made, you have to see this year’s crap to give them the liquidity.

But for those who just want to watch the cream of the crop, don’t worry, I’ve reviewed EVERY summer comic book movie, before any of them have come out.  How can I do it?

I have mystic powers…

I know all…I see all…if only Hollywood came to me first, we could save everyone a lot of trouble.

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When it comes to Comic Book based movies, there is only ONE possible bonus moment:

If one considers the high quality talent associated with this film, it’s almost against the laws of physics that this film is so, so, so genuinely awful.

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For last week’s Lois Lane at 75 Bun Toon, click the fun lettering above

For the Bun Toon archive, please click the bunny with the bun

Lois Lane Turns 75 Bun Toons! YAY

Now that she’s old enough to need glasses, does she recognize herself in the mirror?

It’s been a Superman celebration with his 75th anniversary of first publication this week.  Some are elated, some are annoyed the heirs to the Siegel and Shuster families have been left out of this celebration.  Some are annoyed that Lois Lane has been left out of the celebration, as it’s her anniversary, too!  I assume that’s because it’s impolite to point out a woman’s advanced age.

But I’m happy to point the Bun Toon at Superman’s main supporting character.

Mostly because my wife made me.

Here, now…

I didn’t mention that she once adopted a Kryptonian boy, dated Superman’s father Jor-el, and Luthor, and Batman, and Perry White’s son, and she once turned into a giant insect for a while, because you didn’t need to know that.

Happy Anniversary Lois.  

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Lots of Bonus Moments today!

Lois Lane has a small importance around Ty Templeton’s Art Land!  She was the subject of our very first post, some years back now: The TOP SEVEN S&M BONDAGE COVERS OF LOIS LANE.

Click here to enjoy the bondage you never knew you’d missed as a child.

AND…since it’s 4/20, and we’re obsessively dedicated to inebriation in all it’s illegal forms, might we suggest you click onto the following cultural essay: THE TOP TEN POT-HEADS IN COMIC BOOKS!

Click here if you have a prescription from a doctor for medical use.

On Wednesday, we said our own personal “happy anniversary” to Superman.

Click here to celebrate Superman’s birthday with a drunken Sitcom star

And of course, there’s the usual links to those BUN TOON things I do from time to time…

For last week’s philosophically challenging Bun Toon, click the men of peace above

For the Bun Toon Archive, click the Singing Pastry

Holy Bun Toons, Batman!

And I spake, verily, saying, “Hoo Hah!”

A while back, I did a series of battles between mythical characters that rarely get to duke it out.  Superman vs. Jesus — Professor X vs. Professor Darwin —  Hulk vs. The Buddha —  and The Spectre vs. Steven Hawking, just to name just a few.  Many were declared winner, and many went down in defeat.

It’s time for the play-offs.

My god, this is getting exciting.

What’s next in the quarter finals?!?  Batman vs. Bugs Bunny?  Obelix vs. Ma Kent?  The possibilities are endless, except that’s about all I have left from the list, so it’s not that endless after all.

SOME OF THE ORIGINAL EPIC STRUGGLES! Click on ‘em to read the Bun Toon Battles of Yore!

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In the spirit of Zen, I shall give you all a bonus moment.  And then another moment that is not a bonus, but instead will be an extra moment.

Everyone who understood that, clap with one hand.

First, from England’s late, lamented WASTED Magazine, a page from Alan Grant’s chemically inspired “TALES OF THE BUDDHA”, starring Kid Buddha and his pal, Jesus.

Jesus, Buddha and maryjane –  It’s not just something you shout when you stub your toe at the United Nations.

And now, your extra moment.

The title of this manga roughly translates to “Jesus and Buddha on Vacation”.  And it takes place in Tokyo, apparently.  And Jesus has way better hair for scoring the ladies in Tokyo, that’s clear from the cover.

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And now an extra, extra, bonus moment.

I first encountered Jonathan Winters on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show.  He came on and just talked to the audience in the studio, riffing off whatever they said to him, and was the funniest damn thing I’d ever seen at the age of ten.  As I grew up, I found he got funnier and that there was more going on than the silly voices and the insane characters that would pop up and down like an MPD wack-a-mole game.  He was a true subversive, and had a cynical point of view, buried in the lunacy.

And he played it like jazz.  A comic who could swing like Dizzy, man.

The world lost a few dozen people when it lost Jonathan Winters.  A number of them are portrayed on this magnificent cover by the great Jack Davis.  I have this album, and I’m going to put it on.

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With all the links I’ve put up this week, I’ll bet you’re ignoring THIS link to last week’s Robin-centric Bun Toon. Go ahead, Click it, and see if I care.

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The link to the Bun Toon archive. Last link of the day, everyone into the pool!

The Robins Get Rounder Bun Toons! YAY!

It’s time for some new, Frank ideas…

Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers…if anyone doesn’t know about the new plans for the DC Batman books coming up, stop reading.  I can’t be clearer than that…

You’ve read this far.  It’s too late!

You know, they re-introduced VIBE into the DCU without making it terrible, so let’s cross our fingers for this newest addition to the child-care nightmare that is Wayne Manor.

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BONUS CARRIE KELLY COMIC MOMENT:

Rick Burchett and your humble blogger introduced Carrie into the DCAU fairly early in the series, but only to be arrested in the very next panel.

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For last week’s Easter Themed Bun Toon, please click above

For the BUN TOON ARCHIVE, going back more than two years, click the proud rabbit.

Not Yet Easter Sunday Bun Toons! YAY!

Not a re-run, but a preview

Tomorrow is BUNNY DAY in Mega City 1, and so the tradition is to put the Easter Toon up on Easter Sunday.  But Saturday is Bun Toon Day, and so we offer up the Easter Toons from yesteryear, to keep your Bun Toon Jones at bay for 24 hours.  See ya with the new one tomorrow, bright and early.

Here’s the Ghost of Easters Past.

All us rabbits bow to the master.  We consider Bugs to be our Branjelina, just by himself.

And last year, I revealed my secret BFF…

See you tomorrow for a BRAND NEW Bunny Toon in celebration of our special day.

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Here now your BONUS Animal Based Comic Book Moment:

The “Badger” in the credits here is not a character, but Mark Badger, who, along with author Joyce Brabner (Harvey Pekar’s widow), do a regular comic book about animal rights…which includes an anti-vivisection message for lovers of bunnies!

Speaking of anti-vivisection and loving bunnies…I will be spending my Easter Sunday protesting a well known Canadian cosmetics company with a corporate headquarters in Mississauga (where I live), specifically BECAUSE it’s recently come out that they still use rabbits in their labs.  SHAME on them, and I’ll be shouting that for most of my day tomorrow.   I’ll bring back photos and post ‘em on the blog next week!  We bunnies stick together!  PROTEST ROAD TRIP!

For last week’s RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES Bun Toon, click Candy Crowley’s giant head

for the COMPLETE archive of past Bun Toons, click the star of Bunny Day above

This Just In Bun Toons! YAY!

All the news that gives you fits.

I’m fairly sure this is verbatim.  I was taking notes quickly as it aired…

I have to admit, I didn’t see the  news clip when it originally aired, because, like most reasonably intelligent and educated adults, I don’t watch cable TV news in exactly that way that I don’t consult squirrel entrails.

But after a couple of days of CNN being offended at the idea that people were offended by their reporting, I fired up the youtube and watched the clip like god intended and was astounded at how much of the dialogue of this comic strip I DIDN’T make up.  What was going through their minds?

When the bar drunk throws up on your shoes again, the solution is to stop going near him.   Why would ANYONE watch cable TV news?

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Here now, your Cable News Pundit Comic Book Bonus:

It seems like everyone in cable gets a comic book, but the honour has so far eluded CNN.

I wonder if that stings?

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For last week’s Bun Toon (actually illustrated, instead of using lazy screen caps) click BEEPY the Oily Pelican!

For the Bun Toon Archives, click the fresh, clean bunny above

Spokescreature Bun Toons! YAY!

The Rabbit is amongst his peers!

This is the LATEST I’ve ever put up a Bun Toon, but I have very good excuse!  I spent the morning with my daughter recording backing vocals for GLENN REID’S newest CD, and couldn’t get to the drawing desk on time.

But I Bun Toon in hurricanes, darkness and floods, so it arrives after all, if a few hours late.

Now that DC Comics has replaced their nearly-always-dead-Robin the Boy Wonder with Casper the Friendly Ghost, I thought it might be a nice opportunity to look back at a few other corporate, and institutional, mascots that have been replaced over the years.  It’s a fascinating history.

How many of you still remember these…

The stuff about Spuds MacKenzie is completely true, I looked it up.   She was really named HONEY TREE EVIL EYE.

Please serve your dog alcohol RESPONSIBLY.

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Here now,  your BONUS Corporate Mascot Comic Book Moment:

Because LSD memories are so unreliable, I kept a copy of this from my childhood. It’s real.

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For last week’s re-run Bun Toons (because there was a convention), click here.

for the BUN TOON archive, click the trademarked mascot bunny above