dreams-of-flight

A cartoon early aviation pioneer wearing a leather flight cap, goggles, a big mustache, and a brass-buttoned military coat, standing proudly with hands on his hips against a mountain backdrop. His speech bubble declares: "So great will be our power that we will not only be able to send man above mountains at speeds beyond the dreams of eagles - we will find a way to make the experience shitty." A caption beneath reads: "The ambition of aviation pioneers was almost boundless." The joke imagines the founders of flight foreseeing not just the triumph of air travel but also its modern miseries. Votey (aftercomic): a black-and-white close-up of the same aviator adding, "Supersonically shitty one day."