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Grand Ballroom of Doom

By September 29, 2021

One panel black-and-white comic from the Artblog series "Grand Ballroom of Doom" in which a father is talking to his son about the future, and says he can "be anything he sets his mind to," unless it makes he (the father) or other people uncomfortable by challenging norms or being gross.

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