This is NOT what Ben Franklin had in mind when he invented the lightning rod, but I bet you top dollar if he had thought of it, he’d done it. I mean, come on, he stood in the rain waiting for lighnting to strike a kite he was holding. The man had balls the size of the Liberty Bell.
I’ve been requested to slip in some of the men in cheese-cake poses, so I oblige those readers. Jeff loves his t-shirts at night. I also remember fondly the vareity of colors our “tidy-whiteys” came in back then.
The Lovin’ Spoonful is probably best known for their 1966 hit “Summer In The City” which was about other things then blowing up your backyard with M-80s hooked up to a lightning rod, but I felt it a good title just the same! We always had fun in the summer back then! Why not?
PS: Yeah, don’t try this at home… we’re professional cartoonists here, so we know. 🙂
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Sorry to tell you this … but lightning rods are designed to *dissipate* electric charge so that lighting *won’t* strike them. Why do you think they attach them to houses?
Still, this strip would be cool in real life …
I was wondering why only one of the guys had Fingers….
As for the comment first comment, he obviosly doesnt understand basic lightning rods.
Hey Byron, excellent work, man! If you can maintain this sort of art/story standard your future fame is in the bag, polls or no polls (I kinda think intarweb polls are stupid anyway). If everyone here puts out the word when you do good then you’re made.
Now I need to talk to the real talent of this electronic rag.
Hey Jeff, you can get to the money shot faster if you:
Place the M80s around a *very* free-spinning spool of thin wire.
Tie off the wire SECURELY to a large, no-warhead type bottle rocket (be sober and straight for this part or risk disappointment).
The best launcher for this rocket is not a bottle, but a short length of pvc pipe buried in the ground. Do that sober and straight too. Look, don’t argue, just do it for cryin’ out loud!
Wait for storm. When it is very close indeed and the lightning is chasing itself round the sky for fun:
Light rocket.
RUN YOU TWIT!
Note to readers of strip – DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME OR ANYWHERE ELSE. THIS STUPID TRICK CAN AND WILL KILL ANY NON-CARTOON CHARACTERS IDIOTIC ENOUGH TO TRY IT.
Of course, you don’t have to warn people except for legal reasons. After all, who would be stupid enough to bugger about with fiery death like that?
Oh, hang on. http://theoccasionalstevie.blogspot.com/search/label/Tales%20From%20A%20Mis-spent%20Youth#114857865147728763
Clearly you plan on no free time again, ever.
1.21 GigWATTS! Man, this comic certainly *sparked* some scientific conversation! ha ha, “sparked”. get it? oh whatever.
Man, that had to have been impressive!
Ever light a campfire with C-4? I have
Oh man, what a fantastic image! You rock.
I love Bud’s expression in the last one. That must have been one hell of a Kaboom!
Man, that musta been some serious pop! I remember friends having M80s as a kid. I also remember rumors of cherry bomb explosions in the men’s room commodes, but it was all BS.