Today's Mirth Separation comes to a FULL-STOP with the cover of MUTT AND JEFF # 22 (DC Comics: Cover Date: June-July, 1946) and a Gandy Goose gag from LITTLE ROQUEFORT # 2 (St. John Comics: Cover Date: August, 1952)!
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We've seen the MUTT AND JEFF cover before, as part of THIS POST, but now it BRAKES through again for its second Separation at Mirth!
In fact, if you arrange them THIS WAY, it looks like a "related-gag head-on-collision"!
Since this won't end well, perhaps we'd better cut off this post right here...
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These gags remind me of a similar scene, albeit involving a train, that I just re-read today in 1932's "Tintin in America".
In pursuit of gangster Bobby Smiles, Tintin hijacks a train. However, this train turns out to be, like Trane HVAC systems, "hard to stop." Its brakes don't work!
Here's the scene: https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackkat.net%2Ftintin%2Fbook%2F03%2520-%2520Tintin%2520In%2520America%2FTintin%2520in%2520America%252031.jpg&hash=e4d8110c9fde6ff583d3621557564c6f5cd5cbf0
On another note, I didn't realize you've been doing "Separated at Mirth" posts for at least 5 years now!
How time flies!
Keep up the great work.
There's a similar visual in Don Rosa's "The Last Lord of Eldorado", but resulting from different circumstances: the ducks' truck carrying a bulldozer is actually standing still, but the strain of its front part hanging over a chasm with no ground under its wheels rips off the platform with the bulldozer and catapults it forward, not unlike the bodies of the cars shown here :)
Here's the relevant frame:
https://imgur.com/b5HckAP
And, in another reference to Rosa, I believe that a healthy dose of Cabbage Professor's anti-inertia ray could have helped to prevent the accidents pictured in the post ;) You can never find those gimmicky sci-fi high-tech rayguns when you need'em...
Sergio:
You write: “In pursuit of gangster Bobby Smiles, Tintin hijacks a train. However, this train turns out to be, like Trane HVAC systems, "hard to stop." Its brakes don't work!” Well, as the ads say… “Nothing can stop a TRANE!” …Okay, ALMOST NOTHING that is!
All I can say is “Some brakes, huh, Tintin?” …Or, maybe “If THIS is how you pick up passengers, next time I’m FLYING!”
HERE is Sergio’s Tintin link… Let’s hope it works as Google Blogger has been somewhat quirky with links lately!
FIVE YEARS of my performing Separations at Mirth? Gosh, even I didn’t realize that! I’ll have to look back and see what that first one was about!
I’ve got so many of these in various stages of completion – from Blog-ready, to nothing but a title – that you can expect plenty more to keep on coming. …Kinda like an “on-coming train!”
T. :
Of all the forces of physics that influence us, and everything around us, inertia would be the most fascinating to me. From the velocity (or lack of same) for real-life baseball pitchers and fielders and football quarterbacks, to its upending in all of the funniest cartoons. And its great comedy potential is on full display in the works of Don Rosa, as well as the two examples presented here!
Also, of potential good use alongside the Cabbage Professor’s anti-inertia ray, would be the titular “Time Teaser” from DUCKTALES 1987, or its Don Rosian analog in his ”On Stolen Time”!
BOTH owing a tremendous debt to “Mr. Pem’s Pocket Watch” from the VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA episodes ”A Time to Die” and its sequel ”No Way Back”!
Yes, really… A good TEN YEARS or more before “DT” and “DR”! Check them out!
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