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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Egg Beater Turkey Levitator


Returning once again to Adventure Comics 156, we see that, in order to prevent his pal Tubby from consuming the roast turkey placed before him, Johnny Quick uses an egg beater to create a draft that sucks the turkey through the window.

I laughed so hard at this. It is so completely, totally, patently impossible. I am not aware of anyone having the nerve to stand up to blatantly obvious goofiness like this back in 1950, but nowadays of course fanboys would be instantaneously up in arms in chat rooms and blogs, calling the writers on such a monumental bluff. Even internal consistency, which allows Superman to fly and Spiderman to swing on webs (natural and artificial) can't hope to bring this one home.
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