B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 09, 2018

Would a candle or torch not have sufficed ? – and, no electric bill to pay.

Thor, you light up my life.

Marketing!

Do fireflies attract moths?

Next week, the bug zapper!

they are called lightning bugs because their flashes resemble the short flicker. Couldn’t they also be just called lighting bugs because that’s what they do?

The others are off-panel turning the crank on a generator.

I said a Bud light! Old commercial.

Well now. If you also invent the “lampshade” you’ll have something you can wear while you’re DRUNK at parties…..”

A little bit out of season as I look upon the snow flakes drifting down.

I don’ need the bugs. But if I invent screenwire, maybe I can ‘repurpose’ it to something I would use.

Electricity??

Proof again that BC is not prehistoric but post-apocalyptic.

Eatanter wants to buy one…

One of the frogs from Wizard of Id is lingering at his feet. Good times.

It’s a bug collector.. not a bug cooker… big difference

Somebody lampshade this gag.

To be followed shortly by the Bug Zapper!

They are high in protein… anyone care for a nighttime snack?

Very clever humor, seeing the collateral effects of his invention and dismissing the it’s global significance.

Should be yellow.

“If a six-pack of beer and a bug zapper is your idea of high-quality entertainment …

“You might be a Redneck.”

— Jeff Foxworthy

Very similar to starting the NASA Space Program so that “Tang OJ” could be invented.

I wonder where the plug is .

I’ll have a Bug Lite!

When the device has finished sucking bugs, it can be used for sucking dark! Let there be light!