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TITLE: Anatomy of Monsters: Anatomy of a Domovoy

DESCRIPTION: A short man, with his back to the viewer, looks over his shoulder. He wears a green stocking cap, a grungy tan shirt, but no pants - his butt pale and visible. He has a long white beard and liver spots on his skin. His eyes glow red, and he stads on some wood floor boards.

JOKES:
- In Slavic Folklore, a Domovoy is a protective guardian spirit of the home.
- But in “Class-Good-Time-Slavic-Fun,” he’s a frantic old dude with flashing eyes who lives under your floorboards and throws boots at you if you cuss.
- When you move into a new home, you’re supposed to sacrifice a chicken, leave out a slice of bread, and say “Our Supporter: come into the house to eat bread and obey your new master.”
- Because nothing establishes a healthy room mate dynamic like blood sacrifice!
- If you’re poor, you sometimes get a naked Domovoy. AIN’T THAT A SLAP ON THE CHEEK.
- He lives under your floorboards! (Which gets awkward when you live on the fourth floor of a high-rise and he’s technically floating above the downstairs neighbor’s bed.)
- When your head hair segues seamlessly into your back hair.
- If you move house, a ritual lets you bring him along! (It’s just like moving your internet provider: Same number of dead chickens!)
- “Hey, did you remember to pack the keys?” “YES.” “And did you remember to invite the centuries-old demi-god to crawl to our new home?” “AW, DANG IT,”

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PANEL 1: SHAKESPEARE sits at a writing desk with a candle, holding a quill.
NARRATION: We all picture Shakespeare as this amazing human being.
SHAKESPEARE: Hellow! I’m Shakespeare! Hello hello!

PANEL 2: SHAKESPREARE smiles with his eyes closed, holdings his hands out.
NARRATION: Like, just walking around being incredible.
SHAKESPEARE: Hello! Just over here inventing 1,700 words to add to the English language! NBD! Shakespeare!

PANEL 3: SHAKESPEARE sits on an easy chair, feet up on the ottoman. His beer belly sits out, one arm behind his head, one holding a tv remove control out. Behind him stands a blonde lady in a corset holding out a bag of trash.
NARRATION: But, like, Imagine being married to that dude.
LADY: Hey, I thought you agreed to take out the tra—
SHAKESPEARE: I WROTE HAMLET

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June 17, 2026

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This single-panel comic shows a blu banner at the top with the title: “ONE JOB”. Under the poem is a baby’s bassinet with a circle of glowing bright colors and stars behind it.
The text:
Why hello, little baby!
You are here! You’re alive!
It’s nice place, this earth,
And we hope that you thrive!

We’ll start your book-learning
And schooling at five,
Plus a decade or more
To help you to strive.

Then it’s into careers
And new jobs that you’ll dive,
And you’ll keep doing that
‘Till around sixty-five.

But we all got ONE task, here —
And it ain’t “just survive”.
No, this place needs some mending
…needs a hand to revive.

This one life has one job
While you’re here and alive:
You gotta make this place better
Than when you arrived.

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June 16, 2026

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PANEL 1: SHELDON, a ten-year old boy with large glasses, stands in a swimming hole next to ARTHUR, a yellow duck.
SHELDON: Do you know how the cyclops myth got started? Travelers saw the skull of an elephant - with one gigantic hole up in the front - and didn’t know what the heck it was.

PANEL 2: ARTHUR laughs in response as he swims in the swimming hole.
ARTHUR: Ha ha ha! That’s such a dumb leap, even in ancient times. You would have to willfully ignore the gigantic, local animal with the huge trunk…and instead invent an entirely new creature.

PANEL 3: SHELDON stands still in the water while ARTHUR continues.
ARTHUR: That, my friend, is the work of someone’s crazy uncle. The kind of guy who rails about conspiracy theories and the gummy-mint.

PANEL 4: A man with scraggly grey hair and only a few teeth, wearing a rudimentary toga tied with a rope and sandals, points to an elephant skull.
MAN: WAKE UP, SHEEPLE! THIS HERE’S A JENN-U-WINE CYCLOPS. Yessir.

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June 15, 2026

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PANEL 1: ARTHUR, a yellow duck, and FLACO, a green lizard, stand on a kitchen table. A doorway is in the background.
ARTHUR: Hold on…if you’re going to the mall, I need your phone number so I can text you.
FLACO: (squee squee squee) squee squee squee - squee squee squee squee

PANEL 2: ARTHUR and FLACO head their separate directions - ARTHUR’s leg and butt are seen leaving the panel on the table while FLACO jumps off, heading the other direction.

PANEL 3: GRAMP appears in the doorway in the background, eyes wide in confusion over what he just over heard.

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June 12, 2026

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PANEL 1: OSO, a fawn pug, sits in the foreground, looking over his shoulder at a bunch of yellow birds sitting on the ground under a large tree.
NARRATION: Is birds! I must bork! I bravest of boys!

PANEL 2: OSO runs furiously across the lawn, legs stretched out in full sprint.
NARRATION: I no fear the feathers! The beaks! Or the poise!

PANEL 3: OSO continues to fun across the lawn, eyes angry, legs gathered beneath him.
NARRATION: My books are da bravest! Cuz I bigg and tall!!

PANEL 4: OSO sits, happy looking, one ear sticking up. He’s surrounded by the group of yellow birds who look happy and clueless to his previous barking. One bird leans in to his leg, a small heart above his head.
NARRATION: But dey not afraid. Not afraid. Not at all.

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June 11, 2026

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PANEL 1: GRAMP, an older bald man with a grey mustache, stands with a bright green headband and wrist bands, holding small hand weights. He talk to ARTHUR, a yellow duck.
GRAMP: I feel like I can’t really exercise until I lose some weight.

PANEL 2: Close up on gramp as he weakly raises the very small hand weights.
GRAMP: But I never seem to really lose weight until I START exercising.

PANEL 3: GRAMP continues, looking deflated. ARTHUR responds, eyes squinting.
GRAMP: I…I kinda have to go on a diet before I go on a diet.
ARTHUR: OK BRING IT DOWN A NOTCH, CATHY.

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June 10, 2026

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This single panel comic shows Barad-dûr, the tower in Lord of the Rings in which the Eye of Sauron sits at the top. In the background we see a Fellbeast flying. The eye is looking down, with a spotlight searching the ground. In the bottom right corner there is a clear eye contact on the ground. A voice bubble from the eye reads: AAAAAAAAH WAIT WAIT WAIT NOBODY MOVE NOBODY STEP ON IT.

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June 9, 2026

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PANEL 1: GRAMP, an older bald man with a grey mustache, stands under a tree with ARTHUR, a yellow duck. In the tree is a little blue bird.
GRAMP: Look! It’s the bluebird of happiness!
ARTHUR: ? …that’s just Barry.

PANEL 2: GRAMP, full of delight, clasps his hands my his cheek.
GRAMP: The bluebird of happiness is a harbinger of good things! A sign that joy is coming your way!

PANEL 3: GRAMP watches the bluebird lift in to the air from sitting in the tree.
GRAMP: When a bluebird of happiness enters your life, I means that - aw darn! He’s flying away!

PANEL 4: From behind GRAMP and ARTHUR we see a red car. The blue bird is flying away, leaving a big white splat of poop not he windshield. GRAMP’s mouth is wide open in horror, ARTHUR holds his wing up as he yells after Barry.
GRAMP: AW MAN, NO!
ARTHUR: You’re twisting the knife, Barry!

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June 8, 2026

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This single panel shows the Sesame Street characters BIG BIRD, holding a tray of muffins, GROVER, with his arms exuberantly above his head. The both look expectantly at THE COUNT, leaning his head on his hands, elbows on the table, looking glum.
THE COUNT: Yeah. I don’t know. …about a half dozen.
CAPTION: Deep down, THE COUNT knew it was time to hang it up.

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PANEL 1: ARTHUR, a yellow duck, stands tall and proud as he talks to a group of birds around him. In the scene is a rooster, a little blue bird, a red breasted Robbin, a couple nondescript birds in the background, and a small purple bird, PICKLES, peaking in from the right side.
ARTHUR: Ok! We’re almost set for the party. Who was getting the spanakopita? …Pickles?

PANEL 2: ARTHUR peaks inside a pink bakery box. ARTHUR looks surprised.
ARTHUR: Oh great! The spanako-WAIT. This isn’t spanakopita, Pickles. This is Torta Pasqualina, a very similar traditional dish from Italy’s Liguria region… that is also commonly served in Argentina and Uruguay.

PANEL 3: ARTHUR has left the panel, the pink bakery box open, with PICKLES standing next to it, looking at the viewer, eyes squinting in guilt. No text.

PANEL 4: A green-yellow background with PICKLES, eyes dilated, beak/mouth cringing. Some sweat drops fly from his head. In large red text behind him reads: “EVERYONE KNOWS THIS, PICKLES”

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