Yes, Tobor first cornholed, ironically enough, the day after April Fool's Day, 2001. Tobor's prototype was ObiJo's Sodomizer 5000.
Tobor was first pronounced passé 3 weeks and 12 strips later by someone called "balan" in a comic called "Getting sick of Tobor."
The 115 weeks since then have brought 1161 Tobor strips, not counting several where his name was misspelled "Tabor." I have a few ideas about why.
One, Tobor embodies brutality-- sudden, senseless, implacable, and mechanized-- and thus he provides a ready symbol for the modern condition.
Two, he yells "cornhole."
Three, making a Tobor strip is a sort of baptism. An obscene, juvenile sort of baptism, but still.
Four, making a strip out of such absurdly threadbare and (let's face it) bad material is a challenge that great minds like yours, here at Stripcreator, cannot resist. It's like writing a story that opens, "it was a dark and stormy night." That opening, in fact, inspired the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which writers submit one sentence purporting to be the opening to the worst novel ever written.
Five, you can show how cool you are by making a strip about how uncool Tobor is, and you still get to use Tobor.
Yes, Tobor is crude and dumb and worn out. He always has been, and that's why many of us adore him. I hope people keep using him so he will be even more like he is than he is already.
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