The Annotated Amoeba Joe

"Amoeba Joe" was a comic I made to amuse myself. I now present it in Twitter form with commentary to explain all the quote unquote jokes.

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This is how I imagine things would've gone if I helped that dirty hippie girl. Except I probably would've taken her to McDonalds. It was in walking distance.

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Remember, buying a homeless girl lunch does not mean she has to sleep with you.

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This strip is actually a true story. I wish I would've turned around and helped her out. The rest of this story arc is what I imagine it would've gone like.

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I always try to get a #lollipop whenever I go to the doctor. I'm a fan of random fourth panels. This one is a parody of #MadMaxBeyondThunderdome and that time Mel Gibson got drunk and anti-Semitic.

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Another incredibly dumb cartoon, but it is fun to yell #Zing

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I might be able to build up an audience if I put up a strip more than once in a blue moon. Oh well. This is a satirical jab at #Obamacare. Well, not really. But I think Robert's logic at the end is solid.

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This has nothing to do with #BidenCheated2020 or #BidenWonDonaldLost but I want people to know my comic strip exists. This is the beginning of me getting extremely lazy in making the comic, but the jokes still amuse me.

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One of my favorite strips and one of the few times I returned to the #existentialist humor of the early strips. #comicstrip #hashtagsarefun

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This is an actual song I wrote in high school. I still don't think it's that bad. The captions are probably funnier than the actual strip.

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I think this was all an excuse to throw in some #Rush lyrics. It's good to live your life by the philosophy of Rush lyrics.

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I was going to start a band called The Fag Bashers and we were going to wear the most homoerotic S&M gear we could find. It was a dumb idea. This comic was a dumb idea. I apologize now in case I ever become famous and this is found in an attempt to cancel me.

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#DejaVu
Since this was the 50th strip, I thought it'd be funny to go back to the existential humor and have our protagonist relive the first strip #GroundhogDay style. I planned to do it every 50 strips but forgot to keep up with it.

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I mean, if anyone wants to make a supervillain named #CandyStoreRapist, go ahead. You don't have to call Scittlez. Probably better if you don't and avoid the lawsuit.

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...thrown away during a #TheSimpsons writer's meeting. 5.) I wish this particular episode of #WifeSwap had entered public consciousness, but there's a white guy who wanted to be #rastafarian. He even had the catch phrase "Rasta-fa-rye." I miss him.

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So many references to unpack, so little character limit! 1.) My former coworker's mom was named Carol Carroll. People called her Carol Squared. I find that hilarious. 2.) I tried to base the hair on former local anchor #CarolJasen. She actually worked for Channel 4...

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...the crime only once. A nickname would suggest a pattern of behavior. Though I guess a rape in a candy store is odd enough to warrant the nickname. 4.) Sweet Sweetback's is obviously a reference to the pioneering #blaxploitation film. This is the kind of joke I imagine got...

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Considering all I do is post really old comic strips, you'd think I'd post more often. That's a pretty badass #mustache for a teenager to grow.

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Little known fact: #EvaBraun only dated #Hitler because at first, she thought he was #CharlieChaplin

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I'd probably put these up more often if anyone seemed to care. Magenta Skull is obviously a parody of #RedSkull and the Book of Araya refers to @Slayer frontman Tom Araya. One day, I'll do a proper #ZombieNaziNinjas story. And it'll probably contain #dragons.