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Look out Mr Toasty! It’s Mr Wu Wednesday….

No Princess Pinky :o( Huzzah! It’s the Twinkies!

What with all the attention Princess Pinky has been getting in this cartoon, the Atlanta Twinkies feel they have been slighted. get in line behind Mr. Wu, fellas. You ain’t seen nothing yet.

Today, however, is Pinky-less. apologies to her fans.

Atlanta twin panda cubs Mei Lun and Mei Huan and older prother Po

Huzzah! a guest appearance by little Po!

Me me me! Gimmeee!

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Oh That Evil Cat! Episode 7 of The Wizard of Wu

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Helloooo fans of Mr Wu. Oh, what a couple of exciting weeks it’s been! What with the Princess Pinky panda cam shutdown, and the twinkies about to get their real names (I don’t know why Zoo Atlanta has NOT returned my many phone calls lobbying for the names Bert and Ernie!)

But now it is Mr Wu Wednesday and all those other pandas should just step aside and let Mr Wu have the stage! For those of you who have just started following The Panda Chronicles, we have a new practice here at The Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire. At least once a month, I will run ALL the cartoons that are part of an extended story series, thus relieving you of the tedious chore of sorting through all the previous posts to try to find out where the story started.

Of course, if you sign up for my mailing list, once a month you will get a little communique from me, which contains a downloadable pdf of one of Mr Wu’s earlier adventure and other panda satire news! Huzzah! Commercial over. Huzzah! BTW, in the works is a collection of ALL the Mr Wu cartoons, from the beginning of his adorable life. Okay, NOW commercial over. Huzzah!

where happy pandas eat bamboo, oh why, oh why, can’t…Wu?

We’re in for it now, Binky!

Hang on to your hats, kids, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride!

I don’t think we’re in Pandiego any more, Binky….

What could be waiting outside? Where the heck ARE we, Binky?

Mr Wu landas in the cuppycake region of pandyland in this episode of his new adventure

Don’t I know you from somewhere?

and now, for the latest installment of The Wizard of Wu!

Mehitabel would like to register her protest about given the least sympathetic role in this adventure.

Okay pan fans! time to get back to…um…at least pretending that you are working!

Be the Bear

Bob T. Panda

Mr. Wu continues his adventure in the mysterious land of….

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…well, we don’t actually know where this land is, but it sure isn’t Pandiego, or even Kansas, for that matter. From Mr Wu’s former black and white world, he enters a land of ..um…well, it’s still glorious black and white, but if I ever had the time to do it as a full color picture book, this is when we would shift to glorious color!

There are some folks in this strange new world that Mr Wu will meet that remind him of those he knows back in the real world, including some that he considers interlopers into his world domination of cuteness. Sigh. Are even our dreams and fantasies subject to all those annoying elements of our life that we would like to escape?

Apparently so….

Don’t I know you from somewhere?

Aren’t you glad we’ve returned to Mr Wu’s adventure? (although we can’t exactly promise that we won’t comment on current events…in fact there could be some similar events taking place in the land of Wu….)

Meanwhile, we seem to have resolved our technical difficulties of Monday. It seems I used a picture with the wrong 3 letters at the end. Sigh. That’s what happens when you are a bear on the run. I’ll try to pay more attention!

Be the Bear

Bob T. Panda

PS: I’m devastated to say that I was not selected to win the all expenses paid trip to Atlanta to be present at the naming ceremony of the Atlanta Twin pandas. I guess that makes it okay for me to continue to call them Bert and Ernie.

Is it really Monday already?

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I think we can now put to rest that very unflattering portrait painted of Tian Tian (Huh? who me?) in the New Yorker last week. Tests have shown that he’s the father of the newest, tiniest panda in the US. Almost everyone is hip-hip-hoorah-ing about our precious panda princess!

Almost.

Who’s the bear???!!!

Progress on Book 3 continues! Stay tuned, panda fans! And on Mr. Wu Wednesday, his new adventure really gets off the ground. Really.

Till next time, Be The Bear!

Bob T. Panda

We interrupt our regularly scheduled hilarity for this message

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If you are not aware already, the nation’s (well this nation anyway) newest panda ceased to be after only 6 days on the planet. We send inner pandy thoughts to Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and all the staff at the National Zoo in Washington DC. They should know that the nation’s panda faithful mourn with them.

We know that these things happen…nature knows what it is doing, but it doesn’t make us any less sad. We will go back to being funny tomorrow.

Till then,

Be the bear.

Bob T. Panda and the entire menage at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire.

But where in the world are the Torch bears?

More 2012 Previews! Huzzah! AND a Roll of Honor Inductee!

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I have to start this post by thanking a tireless promoter of all things panda on Facebook. DoxieMom Pandamonium (not her real name, I would guess) posts compilation videos from the panda cams streamed from the US zoos, often Zoo Atlanta, since that is the home of our nations youngest panda. This is a huge amount of work, as she has to watch hours of videos to get these little 1.5 minute gems. Every once in a while she mentions that she doesn’t know how much longer she can do this, so we all whine and plead and then she relents and keeps doing it. She often gives these videos really clever names that leave me laughing out loud, and Mehitabel glaring at me from her perch on my drawing table, because I’ve disturbed her beauty sleep. Her most recent one was so funny (and such a great video that I’m not even going to admit how many times I have watched it) that the only thing I could think to do was steal the title for this cartoon. But I’m putting her on the Roll of Honor, so I hope she will forgive me.

DoxieMom Pandamonium : you are da Bear! Welcome!

So without any more fol-der-al, here is today’s 2012 Panda Preview of upcoming cartoons! (I stole this idea from Doonesbury ….if you are going to steal stuff, steal from the best, I always say!)

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Seven Things You Might Not Know About Bob T. Panda…

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To continue with the requirements of the Versatile Blogger Award, here are 7 things that you might not know about me:

1. My fantasy dinner party guest list would include, Dave Barry, Jamie Lee Curtis, The Coen Brothers ( with Frances McDormand, of course) John Cleese, Paula Poundstone, and Kevin Kline. There would not be a dry seat in the house.

2. I like watching movies where things blow up.

3. I like to play computer solitaire.

4. I like to eat icing right out of the can.

5. I am a terrible procrastinator.

6. I am not really a panda.

7. I can’t tell you the 7th thing or I’d have to kill you.

And here are some more pictures of Babette in her around the world travels!

Babette with her favorite Junior panda, Po.

Babette in a bed of flowers!

Babette at the Palace

Babette, as you can see, is continuing her around the world journey. Jetting here, jetting there…. my head is spinning trying to keep up with her! Has this been fun? I think so!

Where will she turn up next?

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Seven Things You Might Not Know About Bob T. Panda…

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To continue with the requirements of the Versatile Blogger Award, here are 7 things that you might not know about me:

2. I like watching movies where things blow up.

3. I like to play computer solitaire.

4. I like to eat icing right out of the can.

5. I am a terrible procrastinator.

6. I am not really a panda.

7. I can’t tell you the 7th thing or I’d have to kill you.

And here are some more pictures of Babette in her around the world travels!

Babette with her favorite Junior panda, Po.

Babette in a bed of flowers!

Babette at the Palace

Babette, as you can see, is continuing her around the world journey. Jetting here, jetting there…. my head is spinning trying to keep up with her! Has this been fun? I think so!

Where will she turn up next?

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda