FoxTrot by Bill Amend for October 04, 2009

Eno’s blower has a big advantage over Jason’s: No extension cord. “…there are no strings on me!”

Roger should be used to that look by now.

he deserves it!!

Even if he could fly with it, he wouldn’t get too far before he ran out of cord.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he lifted off. He can’t even kick a NERF football.

I think that’s part of the gag, Josh.

Well, we know excessive weight is not the problem.

Everyone knows you need weather balloons and a lawn chair for this.

You’d think that a kid so god at math could just calculate how many leaf blowers he would need to achieve lift off. He should know this wouldn’t work with just one.

Maybe a hot air balloon powered by Paige’s blow dryer?

Well, either it’ll backfire horribly and wacky airblower hi-jinks will ensue, or it’ll actually work, and our brave young Jason shall at last achieve mankind’s collective dream of being able to soar through the skies with the greatest of ease…

… wait a second, is Marcus standing on the extension cord? Um, Jase, you might wanna think about a parachute, maybe some padding, a last will and testament…

Better question, Roger: has anyone ever looked at you like you weren’t?

when I was a kid I thought that was the way superman flew in the movies

You have a lot to learn about your children, Roger Fox.

@ArthurAllen:

Like Adam Savage of the Mythbusters?

Jason: The Man of Balsa.

We don’t own one but are leaf blowers hot or do the motors get hot over being used and wouldn’t Jason get his backside hot from the motor trying this stunt?

You mention Mythbusters, didn’t one of them make a hovercraft out of leafblowers on one of there shows? Get enough of them and this might work.

And considering Jason has very little body mass to speak of…

A company is actually marketing jet-packs. Remember that a millionaire recently flew over the english channel in one.

I love FT… but this is one big FAIL! No way Jason would think that a leaf blower would get him off the ground. Every other cartoon has him doing complex mathematical/physical equations…. he’d know that this wasn’t even worth trying.

Come on, Jason! EVERYBODY KNOWS that you have to jump off of the garage roof for this to work! He’ll do the complex math problems while he’s laying in the hospital bed, recuperating…

This cracked me up because it is, frame by frame, a snapshot of our family. I always knew I lived with Jason Fox, but this proves it.

@lalas, sometimes the smartest ones have no ability to apply it to common sense!

What’s the duplex?

Cuz you are a moron, you moron.

Jason’s serous, he has a real Superman suit, not just pyjamas.

Watch out! That leaf blower is green!

Jason should be light enough, he bounced on the water like a skipping stone.