Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 12, 2018

very important

DOH!

Now he’ll never catch that road runner!

Like all men, we never read user manual.

I generally read instructions before any assembly or use. However, many products I get online nowadays come with English manuals that challenge my comprehension!

I read that the reason jet packs never caught on with the public is that they could only hold two minutes worth of fuel.

Mark must have been watching a particular episode of “Gilligan’s Island”…

He needs a dead-man switch.

The last sentence in any instruction manual inevitably says something like “Please read the entire manual before continuing.”

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1292357

Is that that thing they saw in Washington state?

This was supposed to be The Future. WHERE is my Jet Pack?!

Forgot the most important step, didn’t we, Lio?

“The only reason every American family does not own an elephant is because one has never been offered at a dollar down and dollar a day.” Alfred E. Newman (from the masthead page of an old Mad magazine).

Not fastening a harness can endanger your health AND ruin your fun.

Good ol’ Buck Rogers in the 25th Century never forgot to fasten the harness of his “flying belt,” Lio! Shame, shame, shame!

And it’s going to be raining Jet Packs (well, one Jet Pack) nearby; but I guess that’s better than raining some of Lio’s nuclear arsenal. (I think he’s saving that for the 4th of July….)

He is lucky that he wasn’t fried by the exhaust.