hoax

A single wide panel against a teal background shows a serious bearded man in a dark suit and red tie, seated at a desk and gesturing emphatically at his own chest, mouth open as he makes an impassioned speech. His speech bubble reads: "I wonder if moon hoaxers are as pessimistic as we are. We haven't put a single man on a fake moon sound stage since 1972! What a lack of vision! By now we should have designed a fake reusable launch vehicle and used it to 'build' a fake lunar station. With the proper investments we could've been faking a Mars landing by now!" The joke inverts conspiracy logic: he laments the supposed decline of the faked space program as if the hoax itself were a real, ambitious endeavor. Votey: the same man, drawn smaller and looking dejected, adds, "We lost our ambition for space hoaxes some time in the late 70s. And we've got to get it back."