The Belch Dimension Comics

The Belch Dimension Comics is a self-published comic book written, drawn, and distributed on the Web by artist and author Jonathan M. Sweet. The entire series may be previewed and purchased at the official website, Smoking Cat Productions.

Sweet has been writing and drawing the series since high school, though it has only been actively distributed since April 2005. The series stars an eponymously-named hero, Jonathan Sweet, who wears a long yellow cape, thick red-framed glasses, and a yellow hat decorated with brightly-colored buttons. Though, oddly, he has no secret identity and wears his hero costume freely in public, Jon has superpowers that he conceals, for the most part, from those outside his friend-and-family circle.

Jon is the leader of The Treehouse Warriors, whose secret headquarters is a treehouse located in Jigaboo Junction.

Jon's friends are an assortment of teenagers like himself--Joshua Cline; his best friend and technowiz, who builds the team's arsenal of gadgets and weapons; Angela Larkin, his best female friend; Jon's younger brother Ben, who speaks in a garbled spit-growl that only Jon and the others can seem to comprehend, has a preternatural sense of smell and a longer-than-normal tongue, and who fights by spinning around at top speed (recalling the cartoon character the Tasmanian Devil); Billy, Josh's brother, a kid who is perpetually unlucky; Larry Clayborn, the team's only black member, who is trained in hand-to-hand combat and acts as Jon's bodyguard; Flunger and Gort, two extraterrestrial refugees from the dead planet Flung, who now live on Earth; Molina, the seeress whose past and even last name is a mystery; and others. Many of the characters are based on kids Sweet knew growing up.

The artwork is a stylized minimalist technique, with the major players rendered as stick figures.

The superhero roster frequently rotates from mission to mission, though it almost always includes some combination of Jon, Josh, Ben and/or Angela at its core.

Major storylines in BDC focus on the continuing battle against evil, such as the megalomaniacal Snakeman, a.k.a. "Hiss Hole", or may feature a minor character such as Jon's dog Buddy, or one of the Jigaboo Junction townsfolk.

The first issue was hand-colored for the first two thirds; the third half and all issues from then forward were colored with a Photoshop program, which gave each issue a smoother and more professional feel.

Year One (2005-06)
01 April 15, 2005 Hiss Hole Comes to Town Jon, Josh, Angela, Billy, Ben, Larry, Jason, Molina, Tony Moneran, Hiss Hole, Slobber Face, Noodle Nozzle, Gorilla Man A master villain has harnessed the power of lightning during a storm to reenter our dimension. He seeks to reassemble his armies and resume his dream of world conquest. To accomplish this, he commandeers a house belonging to local bully Tony Moneran--declaring it his headquarters--and kicks him and his crew out on the street. Monty must now work with Jon to get back what's his. But can the two work together against a common foe without destroying one another?
 * One of two 28-page issues, the others being "Once Upon a Time Warp".

02  May 13, 2005 Elementary School, My Dear Potson Truth...Or Else! Jon's boys face off against Monty's gang on a TV game show, where each contestant must face an outrageous physical challenge if they give the wrong answer--in "Truth...or Else!" Plus, Jon dons deerstalker cap and magnifying glass to become England's greatest sleuth. With his faithful companion Potson in tow, he must keep his arch-nemesis from using his evil genius to turn all of London into a London broil.

03 June 10, 2005 'A Fair Fight'' Jon, Josh, Angela, Billy, Ben, Larry, Chance, Fingers, Jimmo, Timmy, Flunger, Gort, Hiss Hole, Slobber Face, Noodle Nozzle, Jello Brain, Prof. Fruitcake An afternoon out turns into a mission when a Cobra Clan plot to serve beverages laced with mind-altering drugs is uncovered. Can the Warriors stop Hiss Hole from turning the state fair into an altered-state fair with his poison punch?
 * Gort first appeared in Truth...or Else, issue #2.

04 July 8, 2005 Small Medium at Large The Raving Driving Miss Crazy Ahhhhhh!! Run for your life! Woman driver on the loose! Angela's getting behind the wheel for her first driving lesson in "Driving Miss Crazy"! Plus, Billy gets a bad case of future shock from a conk on the cabeza in "Small Medium at Large", and the Sweet brothers act like a couple of "Poe" sports!

05  August 12, 2005 High-Sea Hijinks Jon, Josh, Angela, Ben, Larry, Chance, Hiss Hole, Captain Maggot Yarrr! It's scurvy landlubbers vs. briny sea dogs when the Treehouse Warriors board a ship full of bloodthirsty pirates and are forced to swashbuckle for their very lives! Sixteen men on a dead man's chest! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! And all those other great pirate cliches there, too! Yarrr!!

06 September 9, 2005 To the Letter Soup to Mutts Persian Goof Buddy literally winds up in hot water this time when a crackpot wants him for his crockpot in "Soup to Mutts"! Plus, Josh, Ben, and Jon give a big tip of the button-cap to great cartoon director Charles M. "Chuck" Jones when they run afoul of a fanatical desert rat in "Persian Goof".

07 October 31, 2005 Paleozoic Error Fortune Kooky Un-Civil Warriors Josh's newest invention, a time machine, whisks the team off to all manner of exotic locales and distant epochs. Go reeling through the years with the Warriors...then you'll have all sorts of tidbits to impress your teacher with Monday morning--like where pizza comes from!
 * First 36-page issue.

08 November 2, 2005 All's Farrakhanine in Love and War Canine Calamity A Little Re-Read Riding Hood When Brandy's head is turned by the charismatic Louis Farrakhanine (no resemblance to that crazy Million-More March guy intended--no, really!), Buddy wonders if this charmer's golden tongue might not have a bit of tarnish on it. It's a fight for alpha-male supremacy between The Krudd and Screwy Louie. But you know what they say: "All's Farrakhanine in Love and War"!
 * The cover to this issue was featured in SomethingAwful.com

09 December 31, 2005 A Girl and Her Chair Jon, Josh, Angela, Ben, Jason,Molina, Tony Moneran, Jeanne Stonehart, Hiss Hole, Slobber Face, Noodle Nozzle, Gorilla Man, Prof. Fruitcake

The "handi-capable" new girl in town, Jeanne Stonehart, teaches The Treehouse Warriors some very valuable lessons about how to treat friends who happen to have disabilities--with love, patience, and dignity. Jeanne's legs may be weak, but her mind is powerful. A buried memory from childhood could, in the wrong hands, bring about the end of the world as we know it...and Hiss Hole's hands are about as wrong as it gets.

10 January 27, 2006 Standup and Deliver Football Follies The I.P. Freely Inhumane Society Angela becomes a champion for decency in the media after an infamous shock comedian's jests rub her the wrong way. It's a staged battle of wits with the rude comic, and his arsenal of crass one-liners and F-bombs can't stand up to her sharp wit, quick-change disguises, and literally dynamite props.
 * The cover to this issue was featured in SomethingAwful.com.

11 February 22, 2006 Who Decapitated Codger Carbuncle? Home Alien Jon, Josh, Angela, Jimmo, Tony Moneran, Scarface, Principal Stonehart

After the statue in front of the high school gets its top blown off, Principal Stonehart blows his--and immediately starts rounding up the usual suspects. So to get into the spirit, let's grab sexpot Ally Sheedy and misunderstood delinquent Anthony Michael Hall, put them in the detention room, and get ready to untangle the mystery of "Who Decapitated Codger Carbuncle?"
 * Theme: Tv/Film parodies.

12 March 24, 2006 Dog Training Whacky Dracky Gort's Guide to Managerial Economics Moo-ha-ha-ha!! It's a totally f***ed-up April Fool's prank when the scripts get mixed up, and all the Belch Dimension stars get switched into one another's storylines and paired up in some of the most inconcievable combinations known to man. But hopefully we'll have it all straightened out by next month's issue.
 * Theme: April Fools'.

Year Two (2006-07)
13 April 28, 2006 Soul Feud Jon, Josh, Hiss Hole, Slobber Face, Noodle Nozzle, Gorilla Man, Prof. Fruitcake Josh and Jon are dead !! Noooooooooooo!!!!! Without their fearless leader and their second-in command, is this the end of the Treehouse Warriors? Come to think of it, without the stars, is this the end of Belch Dimension Comics? Will we have to rent this space out to another series next month?? Aaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!!!
 * First story in black-and-white.
 * First issue to feature a pinup.

14 May 26, 2006 Nutzi Nazis Ear-Phonies The Trio of Trouble blips back in time to witness firsthand the rise to power of history's greatest madman, Adolf Hitler. However, when the Nazis get a hold of the Time Couch, the mission gets more half-baked, saltier, and twisted than a bag of Bavarian pretzels. Can Jon and company get the Couch back and make it home? Or by the time they see 2006 again, will our heroes be collecting social security?

15 August 28, 2006 Carnival Knowledge Jon, Josh, Angela, Flunger, Gort, Dr. I.P. Freely A new carnival has just opened up on the edge of town, and its brand-new attraction promises to bring folks in droves. But just what is it that's being housed inside the main tent--and why does it capture our heroes' attention? Is impenitent impresario Ichabod Freely really on the level this time, or is the carny a cover for one of his scabrous schemes?
 * First story done in alternating color and black-and-white pages.

16 September 5, 2006 Misadventures in Baby-Sitting Guidance System As new college graduates, diplomas in hand, prepare to march forth into the work force, the Belch Dimension Players offer up this whacky look into the world of employment. Join Jon, Josh, and Ben as they become three cobblestones on the path to a good career...plus, Sharon has a few "Mis-Adventures in Baby-Sitting" of her own with a pack of reluctant rugrats.
 * Theme: Jobs.
 * Features the second story done in alternating color and black-and-white pages.

17 September 29, 2006 Plant Feud A Walk on the Wildlife Side Jon, Josh, Angela, Ben, Hiss Hole, Prof. Fruitcake It's not easy being green...and leafy, as Josh and Jon soon discover after a lab mishap turns them into a pair of human-vegetable hybrids. Will they find a way to nip the problem in the bud as well as stem the tide of Hiss Hole's latest plant plot? Will the wily snake-in-the-grass leaf them bush ed with his infatiguable stamen -a? Or will our herbivorous heroes quickly grass -p the solution to this thorn y problem? Aye, there's the sh- rub !

18 October 18, 2006 Lightning Strikes (Terror In) Me Again Home Alien II Scaredy Cat Jiga-Boo! Ha ha ha!! It's Tales From the Crypt-style gross-out horror...perfomed by our usual cast of assorted nuts. Three spooky tales with twisty endings.
 * Theme: Halloween.

19 January 27, 2006 The Foul Stench of Doom! Demi-Jon Jon, Josh, Angela, Hiss Hole,Slobber Face, Noodle Nozzle, Gorilla Man, Prof. Fruitcake, Demi-Jon The Treehouse Warriors face their foulest threat ever--the FartKnocker, a criminal mastermind who plans to bring the city to its knees with his unique brand of flatulent perfidy. Will they be able to defeat this gaseous madman's stinkin' thinkin' before he renders the entire city an uninhabitable waste-product wasteland, over which he will rule as king? Plus, Jon ends up literally beside himself when he's forced to battle his own dark half, in "Demi-Jon".
 * Second 36-page issue.
 * Second story in black-and-white.

20 December 1, 2006 Keyed Up All That Jazz Inferior Decorators The Christmas holidays can be such a headache, what with shopping and wrapping presents and preparing meals for about two or three dozen screaming, fighting, mooching extended family members who will be underfoot all weekend. Even more of a pain is having to work over the holidays to pay for all that! The Trio of Trouble earns extra cash for the holidays as piano movers and by redecorating a rich lady's house. Plus, when a new girl joins the KSSA crew, can their morning show misfits tone down the sexist humor, or will their boss have them by the call buttons?
 * Theme: Christmas, Jobs.
 * Introduces Will B. Caustic and Professor Bobcat.

21 December 28, 2006 Once Upon a Time Warp Jon, Josh, Angela, Billy, Ben, Hiss Hole Frustrated by countless losing battles, huge setbacks, and crushing defeats, Hiss Hole uses a time machine to return back to the halcyon days when our heroes were but wee defenseless children. Can Jon and company keep the wily snake from altering the timestream and enticing their past selves into a life of crime?
 * One of two 28-page issues, the others being "Hiss Hole Comes to Town".
 * Third story done in alternating color and black-and-white pages.

22 January 26, 2007 What a Drag! Desperate Housecats Undercover work can be a real drag--especially when Gort and Ben, a.k.a "Gretel" and "Bernadette", are on the case. Plus, Punkin has a date for Valentine's Day with a persnickety purebred--but he's going to have to work hard to woo her.
 * Theme: Valentine's Day.

23 February 23, 2007 Family Ties Jon (FB), Jimmo, Rasputin Starring...Jimmo! This issue features that madcap magic man embarking on his first solo mission to the wild, untamed, steamy jungles of...college! When a university coed is rendered her nearly comatose by a mysterious poisoning, our favorite mini-mage has to get to the bottom of it...as well as come to grips with his own strange origins and the sister he has not seen in five long years.
 * First multi-issue arc.

24 March 26, 2007 Missed Manners Family Ties (2) Angela thinks Josh, Jon, and Ben are turning into a pack of couch-potato slobs, so she decides to try to impart a little class on them. She makes reservations for the Trio and herself at a posh eatery, hoping the high-class atmosphere will rub off on them. But can Angela transform these sow's ears into three designer Gucci silk purses?

Year Three (2007-08)
25 April 30, 2007 SweetTart Jon, Kathryn Tarkakoff, Rhea Borstein, Tom Little By day, a mild-mannered cartoonist for a small school newspaper...by night, a costumed heroine fighting for truth, justice, and, like, you know, stuff like that. But will the Teen of Titanium accept a dame muscling in on his turf?
 * Silver anniversary issue.
 * Third 36-page issue.
 * Second multi-issue arc.
 * This issue was dedicated to Ken Prince, onetime artist for The Arkansas State University Herald, who died of a stroke a year before this episode was produced.

26 May 28, 2007 SweetTart (2) The Belch Dimension's Stupidest Home Videos Jon, Kathryn Tarkakoff, Rhea Borstein, Tom Little What's black and white and Red all over? A campus newspaper, of course! Kit digs deeper to unearth Rhea Borstein 's murderous machinations. But will her story end up on the front page...or the obituaries?
 * Second issue to feature a pinup.

27 June 29, 2007 Stoopid! SweetTart (3) Poor dumb Mugsy's on the outs with Monty, and it's up to Jon and Angela to use every clever ruse in their bag of tricks to turn this hotheaded half-pint from a fiend to a friend.

28 July 20, 2007 Up in the Air Par for the Coarse K.9 C.R.U.D Monty gets some balls--golf balls, that is--when he challenges Gort in a winner-take-all game of golf. But will this joker's club leave our red ace with jack, or does our little diamond in the rough have what it takes to win in spades? Plus, Josh and Ben run afoul of a fouler, and Buddy tangles with a tin-plated terror.

29 August 31, 2007 Jiggawatt! Spring Forward, Fall Back Jiggawatt! (2) Jon, Josh, Molina, Jiggawatt A force who claims to be the ghost of Malice Jiggs--an insane serial killer who was executed months before--has struck down The Warriors' resident empath, Molina. Now a bolt of living lightning, Jiggs can move through electric wires, attack his victims, harvest their souls, and escape without a trace. Can the boys stop this walking joy buzzer before he goes on a fresh killing spree in a new town?
 * The third story in black-and-white.

30 September 24, 2007 Hecklin' Jekyll CENSORED! Spastic Explosive It's the "Weird Science" issue, hosted by Prof. Sydney Fruitcake of the Cobra clan! Featuring a crash course in every major scientific dicipline: physiology ...psychology...biology...chemistry...egineering...social studies...elementary physics--it's a whole semester condensed into 24 full-color pages!

31 October 30, 2007 Little Romeoh-no Gort's Guide to Getting A Good Night's Sleep Jon, Josh, Angela, Billy, Ben, Tony Moneran, Melody Moneran'''. Amor--as well as the usual smell of burning tires and malt liqor--is in the air in this double-length special! It's a "worst-side story" when Ben is bewitched by Belch Dimension's blundersome, blustering bully's beguiling baby sister. They say love is a many splendored thing--but once our fighting families the Monerans and the Sweets have had at it, it'll be a many splintered thing. Will these 'tween titans' love survive...or turn into a tragedy for the ages?
 * First double-length (48-page) issue of the series.

32 November 30, 2007 Botany Superhero Roundtable Junk Bonds California, here they come! The Trio of Trouble decides to leave the frozen Mid-South behind and spend Christmas in warmer climes. Traveling below ground, they pop up at a junkyard outside Los Angeles, where they meet up with a cantankerous old coot and his beleaguered son. Will the boys be the biggest riot to hit L.A. since the Rodney King verdict? Sit back and laugh, or you'll get five across the lip, dummy!
 * Botany was written by Michael Dare.
 * The Superhero Roundtable was written by Eileen Delgadillo.

33 December 28, 2007 Dizzy Doctors Jon, Josh, Angela, Billy, Ben, Fingers, Flunger, Gort, Hiss Hole, Slobber Face, Noodle Nozzle, Gorilla Man, Jello Brain (deleted scenes), Sydney Fruitcake The doctor is in...sane. Gross anatomy is about to get a whole lot grosser when Jon winds up in the hospital, and Hiss Hole impersonates a doctor in order to get to him. Can the Warriors keep their fearless leader from going under the knife? Or will Jon get a taste of Hissy-boy's cutting wit? This is one issue that is guaranteed to keep you in stitches.
 * The fourth story in black-and-white.

34 January 25, 2008 Hair-um Scarum Vexed Vets Gross-ery  BELCH DIMENSION HOME VIDEOS presents those merry misfits THE TRIO OF TROUBLE in: "HAIR-UM SCARUM" "VEXED VETS" "GROSS-ERY SHOPPING" Watch these three loveable knuckleheads running their erroneous errands--as well as running downtown to the ground--in these three interlocking madcap misadventures!

35 February 21, 2008 Fishy Business Jon, Josh, Angela, Billy, Ben, Captain Maggot, Maria Eisner Captain Maggot is up to his old tricks again--this time fishing for trouble in protected waters! The Warriors race to table the old sea salt...but when their fearless leader goes overboard, will their goodwill mission sink like the Titanic? And just who is that shadowy figure who keeps tailing our hero--friend, or foe?

36 March 21, 2008 It's A Cat's Life Down Under Blunder Bully for Billy It's a very special issue all about looking out for the little guy! First, in "It's A Cat's Life", Punkin the cat is looking for a home. The good news is, he finds one. The bad news is, it's Sharon Sampley's! Then, The Trio (plus one) pops in on the land down under, where women toil and men plunder; can you feel, can you feel, can you feel the thunder? Finally, Billy goes to his friends for advice on handling playground meanies in "Bully for Billy".
 * Theme: Looking out for the little guy.

Year Four (2008-09)
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April 25, 2008

The Nefarious Four'!

Jon, Josh, Angela, Billy, Ben, Chance, Larry, Jimmo, |Jason, Flunger, Gort, Buddy, Brandy, Marcie, Hiss Hole, Demi-Jon, Capt. Maggot, Dr. I.P. Freely, Dung Tung Wu

Fed up with suffering failure after failure after ignomonious failure at the hands of the Treehouse Warriors, Hiss Hole does the unthinkable. He calls upon the services of four of the most ruthless, bloodthirsty, powerful foes the Warriors have ever faced: Demi-Jon, Captain Maggot, Dr. Ichabod Freely, and Dung Tung Wu. Dubbed The Nefarious Four, these dangerous outlaws will stop at nothing to bring Jon and his team down. Will the Teen of Titanium survive the most brutal fight of his young life? Or will their onslaught of perfidous puzzles crush both his mind and body irrevocably? This lone issue promises to change the face of this franchise forever!
 * Fourth 36-page issue.
 * Jimmo demonstrates a new spell here: matter transmogrification.

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May 30, 2008

'Booting out Bobcat'' ''' The Unsung Zero

Bob and Ray...Lucy and Desi...Cheech and Chong...Sonny and Cher...Caustic and Bobcat?!? The court jesters of local media may soon be joining some of the greatest ex-comedy teams in a little town called Splitsville after Professor Bobcat's buffoonery gets him bounced out on his butt! Can Caustic talk his boss out of firing the Prof? Or will Bob's next gig behind the mike be asking folks "Do you want a hot apple pie with that?"
 * Theme: celebrities/fame.
 * Second appearance of Will B. Caustic and Prof. Bobcat.
 * Lucy Chaser now works as a reporter for The Stuffitin Post.

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Jun 21, 2008

Double Trouble

'A Comedy of Terriers'' Jon, Josh, Angela, Ben, Demi-Jon Jigaboo Junction is reeling under a one-man crime wave, and the prime suspect is...Jon?! Has our local hero turned loco weirdo? Or is some sicko out to run The Golden Boy's good name through the mud?
 * Theme: good/bad twins.
 * A semi-sequel to "The Nefarious Four".

40

Jul 30, 2008

'Home Ecch!''  Ketchum's Couch Trip

A Rash Decision ''' Billy is sick, and know-it-all big brother Josh decides the sure cure for him is a camping trip. But will he need a vacation to recuperate from his vacation? In "Ketchum's Couch Trip", the man with the net but no gain goes to see a psychiatrist to look for the reasons behind his failure to catch a certain little brown beagle. And Jon really takes the cake--and bakes it, no less--in "Home Ecch!"

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Aug 31, 2008

'Son of the Return of the Serpent II'' ' The Making of Son of the Return of the Serpent II '' Jon, Josh, Molina, Buddy, Hiss Hole Jon's been meeting the ghoul of his dreams every night! A series of disturbing nightmares leads Jon to believe that his arch-nemesis Hiss Hole may not be truly dead, but merely trapped in limbo...and torturing him nightly in his dreams! Can Jon's friends help him find the strength to fight--or will the sneaky snake trap him forever in a never-ending nightmare?
 * Fifth 36-page issue.
 * Fifth black-and-white issue.
 * The plot pays homage to a number of horror movies and the slasher genre in genral, in particular the Nightmare on Elm Street series and the Friday the 13th films.
 * This story, along with "Double Trouble", create a rough trilogy which began with "The Nefarious Four".
 * The "bonus" comic is done in color and in the style of a "behind-the-scenes" feature, common with films of this nature.

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Sep 26, 2008

Hate Thy Neighbor

The Eyes Have It! 

A snooty rich couple, the Bourbons, move next door to Jon...and proceed to make his life miserable with their posh tastes and outrageous demands. Can the Teen of Titanium get along with his new neighbors and welcome them with open arms...or will this housewarming party get a little too hot to handle?
 * "Hate Thy Neighbor" is done in alternating black-and-white pages, similar to "Once Upon a Time Warp", "Guidance System", and "Carnival Knowledge".

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Oct 30, 2008

'Squared Circle Jerks''  Gort's Guide to Running For Office  The Crazy Cassowary Caper! ''' Jon, Josh, Angela, Billy, Ben, Timmy, Bulk Logan, Jambalaya Jake, Will B. Caustic, Prof. Bobcat

Let's get ready to stumblllllllllle!!! Jon is set to step into the ring for a match with JJWF champ Bulk Logan--who may be getting on in years, but is still plenty full of tricks. Still, with five grand up for grabs, our teen titan agrees to wrestle in earnest anyway. But will he take home the belt, or will he hit more canvas than Jackson Pollack's paints?
 * Second story to feature SweetTart ("The Crazy Cassowary Caper!").

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Nov 30, 2008

'Tiger in His Tank''  The Ransom of Red Chimp ''' Scenes You Weren't Supposed to See

When a pair of bumbling kidnappers monkey around with Jason the gibbon, they're in for more than they bargained for! These missing links nearly go bananas trying to corral this pint-sized primate's antics. You'll go ape too when you get a load of "The Ransom of Red Chimp"!
 * The clips shown in "Scenes" are deleted outtakes from "To The Letter", "Dizzy Doctors", and "Family Ties".

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Dec 30, 2008

'Up the Demi-Jon Staircase''  Breast Implants Through the Ages ''' Jon, Josh, Angela, Chance, Larry, Jimmo, Molina, Demi-Jon Jon's just learned that his dastardly double Demi-Jon is a new student at his high school! And you thought your senior year was the pits...Plus, Dr. Ruthless offers a tit -ilating tutorial on the evolution of faux funbags!
 * Fourth time time Angela appears in her Dr. Ruthless disguise. The other three were "Standup and Deliver", "Carnival Knowledge", and "Don't Be a Butt-Head!" (a story exclusive to the upcoming trade paperback Secrets of a Teenage Superhero).

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Feb 7, 2009

'''Jigaboo Junction' Squares  'Er...  Cat Scratch Fever ''' This issue sets out to take a shot at all your favorite offerings from the boob tube: sitcoms, soaps, game shows, doctor dramas, and, yes, even a few (ecch!) commercials! So put your feet up, grab your snacks, and forget about the clicker! You won't need it to enjoy our shows!
 * Theme: Television.
 * This issue's production and release was delayed a week because of severe snowstorms and power outtages over much of the Mid-South area.

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Mar 31, 2009

'Up the Demi-Jon Staircase'' (2)  Naphtali Nonsense ''' Jon, Josh, Angela, Chance, Larry, Jimmo, Molina, Demi-Jon

A militant student uprising has taken prisoners and disrupted classes at CHS--and it's being led by the teenage terror Demi-Jon! To make matters worse, Jon and his friends are among the student hostages--and there's bound to be bloodshed before the day is over. Can the Warriors stem the tide of mob rule before their alma mater--to say nothing of their city--goes up in flames?

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Apr 30, 2009

'House Cleaning Blues''  Schtick Shift ' It's a double bill of Trio fun this month as our favorite troublemaking triumverate tries their hands at the car sales game...but there auto be a law against this sort of humor--if you see what we're driving'' at! Plus, the boys have just three hours to clean an utterly messy house from floor to eaves, lest a furious Marcie hang these drips out to dry like Sunday's wash!

Year Five (2009-10)
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Apr 30, 2009

Oh, Changing Language

Up the Demi-Jon Staircase (3)  Jon, Josh, Angela, Chance, Larry, Jimmo, Molina, Demi-Jon The zero hour is upon us! With hundreds of blacks armed and ready to sieze the city, and their leader forced to make the ultimate sacrifice, The Treehouse Warriors now face the very real possibility of a city torn apart and ruled over by despotic Demi-Jon.

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May 31, 2009

The Case of the Shanghaied Streetwalkers 

Jon, Josh, Angela, Flunger,Marcie, Don Michael Cornpone, Lord Merdre

For Belch Dimension's golden-anniversary issue, the series travels light-years beyond. Ladies of the evening are vanishing without a trace from the city streets, and Jon suspects visitors from another world have landed--er, again! Now he's trying to convince the authorities to look to the skies. But is it extraterrestrials that are responsible for hooking these hookers, or is the explanation more down-to-earth than our hero supposes? And who's the old duffer who looks like Marlon Brando, and what's he have to do with a story about aliens?
 * This issue is 72 pages long and in black-and-white.
 * The Flungarian rebel leader is dressed as Auntie Entity from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
 * The design and placement of the mark on Jon's stomach during the dome battle is a reference to Snake Plissken's tattoo in Escape From New York.

51 Jun 30, 2009 'Feminazi''  Dusty Rhodes' Wild Side ''' Feminazi (2) Jon, Josh, Marcie, Feminazi A man-hating cyber-psychopath is leading a one-woman crusade to cleanse the city of chauvenism! Can our two proud male chauvenist pigs put a halt to the triple-X (chromosome) terror of ...The Feminazi?
 * This story was dedicated to pop star Michael Jackson, who passed away on Jun 26, only four days before release. Jackson had previously been parodied as himself in "Hair-um Scarum" (Feb 2008).
 * The main story is done in both color and black-and-white. This is the first multi-issue arc to use the technique.

52  Aug 14, 2009 Desolation Row Dognet The Nudie Bar

Grab your love beads, bell-bottom jeans, and tie-dye tees...crank up some Jefferson Airplane or maybe a little "Crimson and Clover". It's a bent look at The Long, Hot Summer of Love, with your hippie dippy hosts Will B. Caustic and Prof. Bobcat! The Belch Dimension's headed back to the lazy, hazy days of 1969...so turn on, toon in, and drop out!

53 Sep 4, 2009

'Stuporboy''  Feminazi (3) ''' Jon, Josh, Marcie, Feminazi

At two hundred days and counting into Malaise II Bill Clinton's third term the Obama Presidency, we at Belch Dimension offer a stimulus package to help the American funnybone! Benjamin dons the famous red-and-blue and becomes Earth's greatest defender in "Stuporboy"...plus the triple-X (chromosome)-citing final chapter of the "Feminazi" story!
 * This story was dedicated to Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), who passed away during production. Kennedy was caricatured as "Ted Schenectady" in "Guidance System" (#16) and "Gort's Guide to Running for Office" (#43).
 * The main story is done in both color and black-and-white.

54 Oct 8, 2009 Uniform Inconsistency Kitty-Cat Cassanova Violence of the Doll's 7 Pages of Bad Luck  Billy learns that he has fallen under a strange curse and must now endure "Seven Pages of Bad Luck"! Then, Sharon gets a new doll for a her birthday...but it might be the last birthday gift she ever sees, because this cursed kewpie's got murder in its polycotton heart! Plus, is Principal Stonehart suited for massive school reform, or would he do well to skirt the issue?

55 Nov 5, 2009 The Case of the Beagle Burglaries New and Revised Rules for the Open Road The Case of the Beagle Burglaries (2) Bungee Bungle  Jon, Josh, Angela, Dr. I.P. Freely The gang em-barks on a case involving a band of bank-robbing bowsers that have been terrier-izing the town...but will their dogged pursuit pay off, or will these tail-wagging wags continue to leave our heroes feeling hounded and melan-collie?
 * The main story is done in both color and black-and-white.

56  Nov 30, 2009 Riled Riled West Silent Partner Ticks-for-Treats

It's December, so merry Christmas from your friends at Belch Dimension! Except...technically one of our pieces is left over from that April Fool's day issue a few years back...and that last one really works better as a Halloween story...and the lead-off story really has nothing to do with Christmas at all, now that I think about it...so--er--happy non-specific, non-denominational, winter season/holiday-timed issue thing there!

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Jan 12, 2010

Mississippi Burping

Jon, Josh, Angela, Jimmo, Flunger, Penyem Segal, Catherine "Cat" Urich, Clinton Hollings A gifted but embittered scientist, disenchanted with life, builds a time machine to rewrite his own sad past. However, he unwittingly creates a weapon capable of obliterating the entire Gulf coast! Can The Warriors find and put an end to this twisted genius' folly? Or will they do well to invest in some prime Tennessee beachfront while the geting's good?
 * Originally concieved as a 24-page issue, but the finished script clocked in at 33 pages. The prduction codes (FABF01-a and FABF03-b) suggest it was considered for a split into a two-issue arc, but it was decided to include both chapters in an "overflow" magazine which would be sold at the original 24-page price.
 * The Finney effect is named for science fiction writer Jack Finney, whose novels dealt in great part with time-travel. It postulates that in cases of alterations to the present timestream caused by temporal movement, at least one person will be aware of the changes, while others about him will not, because for them the changed timestream is a matter of course. Examples have been seen in shows such as Men in Black, Quantum Leap, and Archie's Weird Mysteries.
 * Several homages to the Ghostbusters movie and cartoon  can be observed:
 * Josh's meter looks very similar to a PKE meter. It even changes design often from a digital readout to a dial one, just like the original did between, and sometimes even within, episodes.
 * Josh, Jon, and Cat wear optical sensors that look very much like the Ecto-Goggles from both films and the cartoon.
 * The time machine Hollings builds is modeled after the spectral containment unit.
 * Josh refers to Hollings as "Professor Dweeb"--a reference to a bumbling scientist introduced as a foil for Slimer in seasons 5 and 6 of the cartoon.

58  Feb 12, 2010 Drive-In Me Crazy Romeo and Juliet It's all about the birds and the beagles when Buddy tries playing Cupid on Marcie's date, but she is less than amused at his antics. And is Brandy being bitten by the love bug, too, or is it just a nasty case of fleas?
 * The Apalco Winter Drive-In is a parody, right down to its logo, of The Malco Summer Drive-In, which is located on Summer Avenue in Memphis. This suggests that Jigaboo Junction lies about an hour's drive on either side of the Tennessee-Arkansas border. The theater marquee shows the following films:
 * Tuesday the 23rd
 * Star Wars 7: Lucas Needs the Money
 * Hop on Pop
 * Yu-Gi-Oh 2: Yu-Gi-Oh, Me G-O, We All G-O
 * The Astronaut's Second Wife
 * Harry Potter and the Bone of Contention
 * Tyler Perry's I'll Sue You All (a reference to his lawsuit against Memphis-based Mo' Money Taxes for an ad spoofing his films)

59 Mar 5, 2010

The Case of the Wicked Wax Museum

Jon, Josh, Angela, Larry, Jason, Jimmo, Chance, Molina, Fingers, Billy, Ben, Timmy, Dr. Carl Rombold, Don Michael Cornpone An eccentric collector and self-proclaimed #1 Treehouse Warrior fan generously opens his grand memorabililia collection to the public. But is it just our statuesque hero, or does this philanthropic display of paraffin and paraphanalia ring a little hollow?

60 Apr 9, 2010

The Fool Monty

The Case of the Wicked Wax Museum

Aches and Paintings 

Jon, Josh, Angela, Larry, Jason, Jimmo, Chance, Molina, Fingers, Billy, Ben, Timmy, Captain Maggot This month, three silly stories primed to throw Easter on its kiester! First, Tony Moneran looks to make a fool out of Ben with a barrage of clever desert sand traps! Then, Marcie plans to take the art world by storm in "Aches and Paintings" ! Finally, the latest chapter of our "Oh-Sh** Eleven" arc finds our heroes sailing the stormy seas with the mad Capt. Maggot!