Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for February 16, 2019

Coattails went out of style a long time ago, Steve.

Somewhere there is a film clip of a guy in Paris who had a similar idea and tested it by jumping off of the Eiffel tower.

Steve looks like he harbours a secret desire to become the night.

(Sigh!) And we just got the bushes looking good again.

I don’t think Steve’s got the aerodynamics right. It takes more than feathers, you know.

And what is that in his pocket?

Hmmm. I’m guessing Steve might wind up eating crow.

Use a blazer, Steve. You’re going to crash and burn.

Too much slack fabric…. gonna cause some serious drag.

No… not that kind of drag, in spite of it looking like something Pola Negri or Theda Bara might have loved.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/2uMAAOSwJQdXA9Uj/s-l400.jpg

Anyway, I’m glad he’s wearing his helmet, to protect his head from the probable outcome…

even though that ship has probably already sailed.

Dennis…. I do believe that’s his huge loose screw …

I mean, everyone says he has one.

Looks like it already fell out a few times, so he keeps it in a pocket.

Might be one reason he’s not wound very tight.

It’ll give him something to crow about.

Professor Erwin Corey wants his coat back.

This makes me think of a Batman villain who has been active in the comics since the 1960s. He calls himself Kite Man.

Of course, he’s been revised and changed drastically over the 50+ years of his tenure. Early on he was played as a criminal who needed to be caught and incarcerated. Today’s version is depicted as so incompetent that Batman usually just ignores him. He’s usually seen on a Gotham rooftop strapped into his gliding kite, which crashes within one or two panels. Sometimes as Batman and Catwoman are capering over the skyscrapers we’ll see him in a single panel, already crashed. [Heh heh… cape-ering.]

The best part… His secret identity is Charles Brown. After years of trouble with kites, he apparently studied wind dynamics in university. For all the good it did.

He’s too old to be playing with toys.

No aviation sunglasses. Steve, get your act together.

He really needs a wiingsuit, as well as some Red Bull.

Steve’s been flying on a wing and a prayer for years. His wife just wishes he’d take off and land somewhere else.

I WANT ONE!!

Wingsuit!!!

Douglas Adams once wrote the instructions for achieving flight. Steve needs to bone up on it before his first attempt. http://www.extremelysmart.com/humor/howtofly.php

His tails are gonna need one heck of a tail-wind!

If it’s a suit coat, try flying by the seat of your pants.

It needs more feathers.

He needs a mourning dove suit. Morning, I mean.