FoxTrot by Bill Amend for January 12, 2025

AND the cops, AND the hospital staff

Don’t be such a killjoy, Mom

Just go 88MPH , Peter!

Don’t think he’ll ever impress the physics teacher.

At least hes dedicated… In a way

She knows her children.

Peter learned something about relativity today: His own time is relative — it’s dependent on his closest relatives — especially his mother.

It’s all relative

Today’s missing classic is

gocomics.Com/foxtrot/2004/01/18

“But I thought when I hit 88 miles an hour …”

Ugh! Why does Peter always have to have the need for speed when behind the wheel? I’m surprised they haven’t done an arc where he got into a horrible accident because of it!

I do believe Mom is implementing Newton’s First Law of Motion!!!

You’ve got to do that slingshot effect around the sun I believe.

…just show up…they will be impressed…

Don’t think “impressed” is the word that will be used.

If he passes he might impress the physics teacher.

What he really wants to do is miss today’s test.

Yeah, sorry Peter, you’d be hard pressed to find a car that can actually go fast enough to accomplish that. And that’s not considering all the police that’d want to you to stop and pull over when you try too. :P

I would speak to Jason. I suspect he suggested this.

it really doesn’t work like that

Nah, it’s easy. All he has to do is build up enough speed to slingshot around the sun. If he does, he will be in time warp. If he doesn’t, then he’s toast.

Your physics teacher would be more impressed if you learned how much energy it takes to accelerate to even a noticeable fraction of the speed of light and then figured out that internal combustion engines don’t produce that much energy.

Time travel is not possible. But it does make interesting stories.

If you don’t do what Peter’s planning, you’re basically asking to get rear-ended.

I’m surprised he’s taking Physics.

99% of people with a PhD in physics work for the US government making weapons.

He’s been watching the Time Tunnel again

Is his physics teacher Doc Brown?

The 88 mph thing only works if you have a flux capacitor, Peter. Which you don’t.

There was a young lady from Wight

Who traveled much faster than light.

She departed one day

In her usual way

And arrived on the previous night.

Peter, not warping the space-time continuum will impress your physics teacher. So will studying.

That took a minute to register with mom.

Since when do they have a spare car that Peter can take whenever he feels like it?

Peter: Good morning, officer. N-N-Nice day today.

(Peter chuckles nervously.)

Yeah, it doesn’t really work that way, except in sci-fi movies. Of course, Amend knows that.

It didn’t work with Tenet either…

I go back in time every morning and read FoxTrot Classics.