B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for September 26, 2024

At least the breeze came up before he jumped.

Lightweight…

Looks like it would have worked. It caught the wind just like it’s supposed to do

Caught the wind and pulled the harness. First test – 100%.

You don’t need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive if you want to do it more than once.

Peter should look where he is walking while he is making that snide comment, or in a couple of more seconds in that last panel, he might have wished he was wearing that new invention!

Now imagine what that would do in a vertical descent.

Well, it kept him from falling off the cliff.

Better than jumping and finding it does not work.

When the chute hits the fan.

The “FOOMP” you say!

In World War I, balloonists were given parachutes, airplane pilots didn’t get them. Balloons were cheap, airplanes not so much and pilots were expected to bring them back. Mostly it was because that early airplanes could not carry the extra weight.

“Man. What a drag! Shoot!”

Well of course that’s all it will do for now, Geronimo won’t be born for a few thousand years.

Definitely an improvement over the dinosaur skin balloon

Take two!!!

In the first few hundred tests, the chute dragged someone over the cliff and then collapsed.

I’m curious to know just what, exactly, he was attempting to do? Didn’t look as if he were positioning himself for a jump. More like he was just leaning into the wind. Was he going to just slowly topple over the edge?

why is he walking toward the cliff? an’ without a parachute to boot?!

‘Twas kind of hoping he’d pull a Wile E Coyote so there’d be no Neanderthal DNA today.

I can’t help but think of drag racing cars with that parachute,

At least reverse works. Now aim for forward!

That may be the best possible way for it to work.