Weekly Wonderous Moment In Comics #52

The Future is Yesterday!!!

Yup, I love the future in the old comics, especially when we've been there/done that and we don't have what they promised back in the day. From Sugar & Spike #82, Apr-May 1969, Sugar, Spike, and Bernie the Brain get a visit from Bernie the Brain from 1986!! He relates a tale of what happened to Sugar & Spike when they are teen-agers. What is the world like in 1986??

Well, there are flying cars....

Fashion had taken a weird turn with capes & sombreros...

but the fashion is easily explained by future Bernie...

Flying cars? Wish they were here. Capes & sombreros? uh, not so much.

Weekly Wonderous Moment in Comics #36

THE FUTURE IS YESTERDAY!!!

I love going through old comics that feature a future story and the timeframe is actually years ago. From 1971, comes this tale from the 1990's (in which Superman is no longer needed and is a cripple in a wheelchair)

So what societal advances took place in the intervening 20 years that we have forgotten about in the following 17 years? (and if you're not confused by THAT, I want you explain to me the power of flan).

First up, mankind went to Saturn in 1981

We had the power of anti-gravity in a handheld device

Bank robberies were foiled by glass cages springing from the sidewalk

The Fire Department could put out fires with helicopters

Modern Climate Control melted the Arctic with no repercussions whatsoever
Al Gore= pwned

and the most fantastic thing you forgot about the 90's...

Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy "Action" Olsen, the king & queen of the Fashion Pantheon.