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Wesley Osam
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My site is at https://www.superdoomedplanet.com .
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So this is apparently the actual cover for the current ebook version of Walter Tevis' The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Little green cartoon alien literally falling to earth
September 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1625
comic: "To be honest, you didn't really need these X-rays... But I think I can predict the stock market by reading your entrails."
July 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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There are two kinds of candy:

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Candy Can'tdy
June 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Pencil Types
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Hard Pencil Soft Pencil Wiggly Pencil
June 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Moon Hat

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"Look, Wendell! The moon is wearing the same hat as you!"
June 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The Malcontent and his Turnip

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The malcontent and his turnip
June 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I've had a new panel ready for the better part of a week and... just forgotten to post it for some reason?

www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1607
New Monsters: The Glawp who rests his tongue on people's heads.
May 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1599
New Monsters: The Window Sneezer
April 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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The Doctor Who wiki is particularly strange—it has pages for basic concepts like "Books" and "Rocks" and even human anatomy, all written in the tone of alien anthropologists attempting to reconstruct extinct human civilizations entirely from Doctor Who.
Dr Who wiki screenshot: "Television, colloquially known as telly, was a system that allowed people to view broadcast plays, news, drama and comedy. It was a major source of entertainment and information on Earth from the mid 20th century onwards. The Sixth Doctor once dreamed that his adventures were broadcast on television. (PROSE: Christmas Special)"
April 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I have a lot of half-finished comic panels I haven't made progress on because I still haven't fully recovered from getting sick about three weeks ago. Today I finished this one more or less to my satisfaction:

www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1595
"Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in history human beings are about to step out upon the surface of Mars... Now, does everyone have their bag of gorp?"
March 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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The man who is angry because his finger only points at himself.

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The man who is angry because his finger only points at himself.
March 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1587
The ghost of the drawings you never drew
February 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1584
As winter turned to spring- Every rock in town over a certain size- Manifested a permanent pair of wax lips. An age of awe and terror had begun.
February 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Hyper-detailed AI art, though—you can tell there's no point of view behind it—no meaning, and nothing able to mean things. It feels like looking at a TV tuned to static.

I'm not sure if I'm explaining that well. Anyway, it also reminded me of this thing I drew over ten years ago.
Steampunk Yogurt
January 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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New Monsters: Bowling Ball on a Plunger

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New Monsters: A bowling ball on a plunger
October 31, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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For Halloween week I thought I'd draw a couple of new monsters.

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New Monsters: Toaster Turnip Man Is he a toaster? Is he a turnip? He was once a man.
October 28, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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Warranty Clause www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1573
*&$^%# PLOP Everyone! It's the Language Cubes! The Language Cubes are making you plop! Fight back! BONK Bonk? PLOP) @$!)&(*^ Good people! If you wish to return your Language Cubes for a refund, please follow the legally binding procedures detailed in our warranty! wallus tory. 3. a. Returns To return your Language Cube for a full refund you are required to throw said Cube directly at the head of the C.E.O. (Chief Executive Officer) of Buxxcorp. b. Repairs Language Cubes can be repaired by any auto mechanic. Despite this many auto mechanics will tell you they know nothing of Language Cubes and are not in the business of repairing then They are lying. Violence is Wow, I really don't remember why 1 included that clause. Sir! We finished prototyping your Meat Balloons! Get in quick! Is Buxx Corp going to take much of a financial hit from the mass return of the Language Cubes, sir? Wesley Osam Don't worry about it, P.A. Guy! We still have that contract with the Florida state government to dig a tunnel to Mars! Thus the innovation continues... forever!
October 17, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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Bomb Tombadil www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1569
Can we use control of the Language Cube servers to blank out their databases? If we want to discredit the cubes it might be more effective to replace their entire vocabularies with swearing, oaths, and expletives. You mean like "ent-pruning flibertigibbet," "by Stellarion's Gourd," and "Bomb Tombadil?" I think he means more like "shi No. I mean like... @#%%#$. That's right. The swear words so powerful any attempt to put them in a comic strip results only in punctuation. ? If I'm right, when people hear these words coming out of a Language Cube the result will be the universal comic strip sign of appalled surprise... a plop. $#@〜%$ 8^$%^& ）%！？><@ PLOP
October 14, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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Really Technical www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1564
By Tuesday all Villagetown was letting Buck's Language Cubes choose their words for them. Cheese is blinking. A hat fighting a moose! Represent collossally and the foam will precede us into the establishment. Don't they notice none of these conversations make any sense? This is how humans already communicate. Instead of listening they assume their interlocutor's words mean whatever they expect to hear. Hey, did you know Language Cubes are all updated through a central server in cloud storage? You can just pull up the login page on the public internet. If we can be inside a computer, we can save language! Getting the password is the challenge... But if I call the Buxx corporation I can "socially engineer" it out of them. Expert work, but I'm up to it. Prepare to be impressed. Let me do this. I have known Buck for years. I know his methods. I know the strange and incomprehensible twists of his forsaken mind. But I'm telling you, it's really technical, so don't be afraid to ask for help i
October 10, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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Language Cubes: How They Work www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1559
LANGUAGE CUBES: How they work Steve wants to order a waxwork from this season's hottest new wax sculptor. But he has to write an entire email! Made of words! And there are so many words! It's very draining. I need words... but which ones? How do I choose? Fortunately, Steve has purchased a Language Cube with which to write emails! Shoe fizzers bump a grackle off the rivulet. I have faith that this somehow says what I mean. The sculptor receives Steve's Language Cubed entreaties and intuits their meaning according to word shape, emotional associations, and his own internal whims. Why, this fellow finds my work riveting! And he seems to want to commission something for his carbonated cracker factory! He allows his own Language Cube to write his reply. Discs of meat darken the intentions. Crime hastens. Where does the sidewalk glom onto the fence? Belgium! Eloquent! Steve, too, is free to absorb its meaning through vibes. Tediously parsing grammar and memorizing vocabulary are burdens of
October 7, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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How to Understand Things www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1555
I will not endorse a gadget that sprays random words and calls it language. Writers do not need that. I write most of my books in a caffiene trance which I believe will one day kill me and even I can do better. But what if your fellow novelers had a cube that could write... this? Ooo-kay. Have you noticed normal speech has meaningful vocabulary? Syntax? The orisons of the tweed missiles rise. Why bring taxes into it? I think a thing, words come out, you understand them! Now I'm just asking you to apply the same intuition to Cube words that you do to mouth words. Listen! Yard bones got the haystack. In my understanding it's telling me l'm a genius! Maybe a space genius! You're not understanding anything! You're making up the thing you wish it meant out of empty air! Am I? Or do I just understand a bigger variety of things than you do from the same words? CHECKMATE. I thought Bob would help me-but I guess he's jealous I understand things more nimbly than he does- You're overtired, sir.
October 3, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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An Endorsement is Sought www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1552
Bob! It's been a while! My basement is no longer for rent. Ha ha! No, I have a mansion now. And a personal assistant. Now that you're a somewhat published author I hope you will endorse Language Cubes to the noveling community. No. I would like to keep what minimal respect I have clawed from people who write their books while fully conscious. C'mon Bob! Remembering words is hard! And Language Cubes remember a lot of words that probably aren't in your brain on a regular schedule! Two whole gigabytes- Hey, how much is that in cyberflops? Uh... twelve. Twelve! The number of literature! Now you can write books made from pure all-natural Twelve! NIW The point of writing is that the words are mine. They represent my thoughts. Language Cube words can represent your thoughts, too! Watch this: Hello! These are my thoughts!
September 30, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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Interview with a genius www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1549
Buck Miller, CEO of Buxx Inc., is interviewed: Inventing is easy. You think of a thing in a gry, dey so make this thing. you Like "Meat Balloons," They weren't a thing a minute ago, now they are. I invented them. You don't build the things you invent? Building a thing causes it to exist. Paying a guy to build a thing also causes it to exist. Forget the steps in between. The point is, I'm the cause. Take my latest invention. I had the idea based on this thing here, it's called a “computer"一 I know about computers. Wow, you did your research. Anyway, there's this thing on them, "Al," that makes words. I noticed Al uses a lot of power to make words! Very loud power! And I guess it makes the computer need to drink a lot of water, which, let me tell you, is not how they normally work. I just thought, hey, computers can make dinosaurs now. Why are they using so much electricity on words? I bet we can make cheaper words. Веер That's why Buxx created the Language Cube! It contains lists of nou
September 26, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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The Secret Origin of a Tech Genius www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/?p=1544
Hey, look! An interview with that new tech genius, Buck Miller! The one who invented Smart Wigs! Buck never invented a thing in his life. He used to rent my basement. Buck Miller invented Smart Wigs in your basement? Mostly he played guitar badly. He became suddenly wealthy after inheriting an illegal cockfighting ring from his aunt in Irkutsk. At Buxx, we've rebranded questions as "whatayawants!" It was an especially lucrative fight ring because they also fielded badgers and small kakapos. And that money founded Вихх? He didn't found Buxx. He bought it. It used to be a perfectly normal digital toaster company called Splaa. He always wanted to be told he was a genius... I guess now he's in the right place for that. Meanwhile at Buxx Corporate Headquarters: Gentlemen! Why are there still no Pogs of me? No one here knows what those even are, sir. Well, find out and get it done! Now, where's my Theremin? I have a meeting and I want to take "squeal notes."
September 23, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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The book you shouldn't read.

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Someone published a book that 1, specifically, am not supposed to know about... How? That publisher doesn't even know me. Everyone has one book that must be kept from them at all costs... It is the book that explains your life. It wasn't a book about me. The book is never about you... it explains you by accident, in an aside. If you have such a book and encounter its person, you will know what to do. They must never read it! You must never read it! But understanding your life sounds... good? No. These revelations and epiphanies are meant only for the climactic pages of novels... what happens when the protagonist has had their epiphany? The novel ends. Reading the book of your life closes it on you... your story is over. You vanish! The universe shrugs you off like a character whose actor is done with the play. People hear nothing more of you because there is nothing more to hear. When everything you are has been revealed sequels are superfluous. If you want to survive, stay confused.
September 20, 2024 at 12:32 PM