Ruben Bolling, the subject of a secret and highly illegal experiment performed by rogue social scientists in the late 1960s, spent his formative years in suburban New Jersey under a sugared cereal-induced haze being forcibly exposed to insipid pop culture stimuli such as Mad magazines, Spider-Man comic books and "Scooby-Doo" cartoons. Rescued from his tormentors, Bolling has gone on to produce an inexplicably popular cartoon that his sadly addled mind calls "Tom the Dancing Bug." (See page 48.)