icarus

A white-haired old man in glasses sits in a red armchair with a young child on his lap, reading aloud from a yellow book. He says: "So, Icarus decided it was a great idea to make some wings out of feathers and wax and then go fly around on a hot day. Guess what? SPLAT. No more Icaruses." A caption beneath reads: "Grampa somehow combined classical mythology with the theory of natural selection." In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the grandfather's weary face: "See, Zeus would've turned into a bird and had sex with the sun."