Green-skinned Count Weirdly has no doubt taken inspiration for his oxygen-generating pills from Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan. Weirdly no doubt received inspiration for his accommodations from Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar.
Slylock Fox, hands in pockets, eyes half-lidded, cheek fur drooping, is completely unimpressed with Count Weirdly's stunt. He could crap out a more difficult test of his superior intellect.
The same can't be said for the bug-eyed journalist with the microphone in her purse and the diminutive cameraman who makes everyone look like they're 50-feet tall with his unavoidable low-angle shots. They are nothing but credulous, as they are on deadline for the 11 o'clock news. Vetting Weirdly's claims will have to wait for the inevitable senate hearings investigating how an eccentric noble smothered in a gigantic jar as the news lady captured his dying gasps on her purse microphone.
Oh, and there's a walking scrotum. Seems like inventing useless red pills is the least of Weirdly's crimes.
As for this week's mystery: without air in that bell jar, how can Weirdly drink through a straw? Bad move on the Count's part. He should have had something to drink before he supposedly hermetically sealed himself up. Really, how thirsty can a Count get in 30 minutes? Maybe he has a condition and I shouldn't judge him too harshly.
Am I right?
I am! I win this round, Bob Weber Jr!
Awesome! Didn't catch that, but it reminds me of a recent "cool, gritty" revamp of Man-Thing where Tad Sallis, while drowning underwater, opens up a beaker filled with the "Man-Thing Serum" and gulps it down. Uh, if this is the grittier, more "real" Max comics line, how the hell is he pulling THAT off? Wouldn't the liguid go right out into the swamp? And if he put it right up to his lips, how is he gulping it down, since no air can get into the beaker?
ReplyDeleteWhatever knows logic burns at ManThing's touch.