B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for March 20, 2022

Neat, do that again

Maybe he should enter a diving competition.

Keep trying. It will be fun. Eventually.

Anyone see a similarity with today’s Thatababy?

I would expect to see something like this from Calvin and Hobbs.

These sorts of things Always seem like a good idea at the time…..lol

A bit of magic? It looks like BC starts off with only runners and then the rest of the the sled appears in the next panel.

Reminds me a bit of when we, as kids, used to see how far we could go or if we could make it over a ridge or snowbank without wiping out (or seeing how many of us could “survive”) while standing up on a toboggan going downhill.

It’s still a softer landing than if he tried to do that on his wheel on dry ground.

Actually that does look like a lot of fun!

It was fun watching. Needs some work on the landing, though.

FACEPLANT ! An 8 on the Wiley Coyote scale !!!!!

This comic falls short of the mark …

10 points. Try again?

BC The Eagle!

https://olympics.com/en/video/soaring-like-an-eagle

Skeeball with a sled so… snowball? skeesled?

I’d have tried that!

Sled jumping, the new Olympic sport?

He needs a stuffed saber-toothed tiger as a passenger.

New meaning to ‘sticking the landing’.

Thatababy has it developed into a competition.

Obviously sled jumping needs a lot of work, fortunately they have a lot of time before the Olympics start.

I thought he had combined tobogganing with archery. (There are weirder sports.)

Not enough speed or too much weight, or both.

Extra points for loop-de-loops

A toboggan on runners? What will technology come up with next?

Theories are way more fun than reality

BC fell a bit short on that one.

What fun sledding is, getting back to the top for another go can be hard work though

A hypothetical over theoretical.

When I was a young teenager, my dad made a “super sled.” It had three old skis as runners; the middle one could turn to steer. Just before we walked out the door, we worried the wooden top would get damaged by wet snow, so I suggested a duct tape layer.

Out in the woods, at the top of a straight shot, there was a few inches of fresh powder, and we kids insisted Dad try it out first. He laid down facefirst and went down—and immediately discovered the design scooped snow right into his face! It got packed behind his glasses and everything, lol. It also turned out that as soon as the duct tape armor got wet, it got slick, so whoooosh, there he went into the snow at the bottom of the slope, laughing.

Later, we discovered the steering mechanism took input as a suggestion, not law—it turned subtly and slowly. There may or may not have been some bruised ribs involved.

Ouch. That might leave a mark …