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Test Pilot (Monsterbus p.65)

Classic Kirby! The wonders of the universe! So much to wonder and marvel at, and classic Kirby imagery. For example, the first page perspective shot and the meteor shots will be seen again in the Fantastic Four several times. This story isn't about a final panel twist, this is about the honest wonder and glory of the real world! I love it.

But this blog is about Kirby the prophet, and that is where it becomes sad. The story is written for publication in 1959, and set in 2089, 130 years later. That was plenty of time to develop near light speed travel, if we had fixed our economy, focusing on growth rather than war. But we chose not to. it is now 2018. We are almost halfway: 60 years on. And we effectively gave up on space travel long ago, so we probably won't make it.

it is 2018. The last people who walked on the moon are now old men, dying off one by one.  We could have reached the stars. But we chose greed (and hence poverty) instead.

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