Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for October 20, 2022

Lookth like Bill the cat, er, bug, twiddled the dialth on the thythtem.

Teleportation face-plant.

Just rename the bug as s feature and you got, eh, Micro$0ft?

I’ve always assumed this was a reference to the first Doonesbury: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1970/10/26?ct=v&cti=2333047

Could have been worse. Didn’t he see the movie “The Fly”?

He needs to adjust his Y-axis settings.

Yes, yes we ALL “Guessed it”! Teleportation, was so obvious. Breathed is hilarious.

Shades of the “Philadelphia Experiment”

And the TV movie series “Debris”

A bit of trivia: The earliest known story about teleportation was ‘The Man Without a Body’ by Edward Page Mitchell, published in 1877. Mitchell was an early pioneer of science fiction who doesn’t get mentioned often enough.

Dr. McCoy’s worst nightmare.

The stars are his destination.

“Ratth!”

Ahh… so THAT’S what a talking head is. I always wondered. They have a lot of those in Washington DC, I’d just never put it together quite like Oliver W. Jones, esq.

splinched

Yup. Early transporters were feared for good reason (e.g., on Star Trek: Enterprise). But hang on, Oliver! Somehow, you’ll get yourself together!

Actually, “rearranging” his molecules would be a disaster. “Reassembling” them would be more correct. One of my favorite SF stories, “Danger! Child at Large!” dealt with that very problem.