Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for September 08, 2016

Usually on Ballard Street, if someone gets a nickname like “Thunder Bottom” it refers to some internally generated weather. In this case, WHAT THE HECK ARE THOSE THINGS ON BOB’S BUTT? If they are supposed to be jet packs I think they will just flip him on his face!

@DennisI believe you are correct. Sad to say comic strip physics fails on Ballard St.

They’re probably warning lights and backup beepers.

Watch out for that crosswind, Bob.

Maybe they are amplifiers for Bob’s thunder that will keep him airborn in a sitting position?

I do think it’s a jet-pack….or at least some sort of propulsion device.

That’s why he’s wearing a helmet, and scanning the heavens, planning his ascent…

X… it isn’t comics physics that’s failing…it’s that Bob failed physics in 1969.

A couple of CO2 cartridges may look like rocket fuel…but they’re NOT going to power him into the sky….I don’t think they’d even flip him over.Or if he’s managed to find those Jetex engines from his junior high days… I hate to tell him, but they expired years ago.

It looks like a pain in the a$$ to me.

Bob’s wearing a bicycle helmet. I think those might be booster rockets for his cross-country crosstrail trek.

Uh oh. It looks all clear. Just what we need: another drone out there.

Methane canisters?

Old thunder bottom Benson seen rudely interrupting the women’s volleyball game on Ballard Bay Beach.

If Lightning Bottom shows up, I’m leaving…

Thunder Bottom Benson — the early years

He puts those there so he can blame the thunder sound on the rockets.

If they are rockets he’s going to burn his britches behind him.

Happy Happy Happy – thanks for the response yesterday, I feel better now, I won’t worry about you :o)

I believe the “Thunder Bottom” moniker has absolutely NOTHING to do with whatever that contraption is strapped to his official Batman® utility belt.