From our local anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -
"A Successful Launch"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3625
"With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and we
learned a tremendous amount about the vehicle and ground systems today
that will help us improve on future flights of Starship. Thank you to
our customers, Cameron County, and the wider community for the
continued support and encouragement. And congratulations to the entire
Space team on an exciting first flight test of Starship!"
— SpaceX statement 04.20.2023
"Where's the KABOOM?
There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering KABOOM!"
— Marvin The Martian
So, I was hitting some sativa bud and banging my head on the table the
other day trying to shake loose a decent France uprising cartoon, and
THIS weirdness fell out. I'd given up on a France cartoon at the
moment and was just doing my daily space geekery, reading about the
spectacular SpaceX launch failure and the attendant "hah, I MEANT to
do that" spin from SpaceX, when I found my train of thought wandering
to the Twitter valuation crash and the Paid Blue Check shitshow and
was suddenly, like...
...like, yeah; Musk was really laughing off the Twitter valuation and
the hot mess about the paid Blue Check accounts that's been all over
the news lately, and then a day or two later another one of his
goddamn Starship tests goes sideways on him and the SpaceX PAO flacks
are babbling a bunch of balloon juice about how much they learned
today, and it was one of those moments of inspiration and serendipity
that screamed "quit twisting your panties trying to think of a France
cartoon for a moment and jump on THIS shit, man! Here it is!" Like,
yeah — crashing and burning, in metaphor and reality.
___________________________________
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2
"A Successful Launch"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3625
"With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and we
learned a tremendous amount about the vehicle and ground systems today
that will help us improve on future flights of Starship. Thank you to
our customers, Cameron County, and the wider community for the
continued support and encouragement. And congratulations to the entire
Space team on an exciting first flight test of Starship!"
— SpaceX statement 04.20.2023
"Where's the KABOOM?
There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering KABOOM!"
— Marvin The Martian
So, I was hitting some sativa bud and banging my head on the table the
other day trying to shake loose a decent France uprising cartoon, and
THIS weirdness fell out. I'd given up on a France cartoon at the
moment and was just doing my daily space geekery, reading about the
spectacular SpaceX launch failure and the attendant "hah, I MEANT to
do that" spin from SpaceX, when I found my train of thought wandering
to the Twitter valuation crash and the Paid Blue Check shitshow and
was suddenly, like...
...like, yeah; Musk was really laughing off the Twitter valuation and
the hot mess about the paid Blue Check accounts that's been all over
the news lately, and then a day or two later another one of his
goddamn Starship tests goes sideways on him and the SpaceX PAO flacks
are babbling a bunch of balloon juice about how much they learned
today, and it was one of those moments of inspiration and serendipity
that screamed "quit twisting your panties trying to think of a France
cartoon for a moment and jump on THIS shit, man! Here it is!" Like,
yeah — crashing and burning, in metaphor and reality.
___________________________________
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2
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