Back to B.C. by Johnny Hart for September 12, 2021

But not all birds can fly.

“But you don’t have the plumage to plummet!”

Actually it’s kind of learning by doing.

Yeah! Let me tie down your wings and give you a push……

Great cartoon gag, plummet over the cliff and get up and walk away. (Warning don’t try this outside the cartoon universe!!)

YIKES! He meeped too fast when he should have honked

Ah, like the mechanics of aviating ovines. Sheep do not so much fly, as they do plummet.

Was it Buzz Lightyear who called it falling with style?

Wile E. Coyote can’t fly either.

I can teach you to plummet in one easy step.

Nobody here has raised the bigger issue — do the feet (or claws, or talons, or whatever birds have) of birds even have arches?

I’m learning to fly

But I ain’t got wings

Coming down

Is the hardest thing

The apteryx did a good job falling off the cliff, but Wile E. Coyote would have done it better.

Wile proved you can survive from any height. It wouldn’t be on tv unless it was true, right?

I love this kind of gag.

Is this the introduction of the Apteryx? A wingless bird with hairy feathers?