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Time Sure Flies When You’re In A Time Machine

By Mrstrongest @mrstrongarm

Here’s a panel from the first installment of a graphic novel I’m working on. I decided to incorporate a time machine to maximize possible storylines.

There’s a line from a Steve Goodman song that goes, “From the cradle to the crypt is
a mighty short trip.” Here we see that this is especially true if you’re in a time machine.

Moe Gizmo time traveler using turkey time machine to travel thru time, sees baby in cradle with yellow bird morphing into R.I.P. grave with dead flowers in pot and crow brooding on top of headstone

Here’s a detail showing my illustrated version of time-lapse photography.

detail image from Moe Gizmo time traveler using turkey time machine to travel thru time, sees baby in cradle with yellow bird morphing into R.I.P. grave with dead flowers in pot and crow brooding on top of headstone

My time machine looks suspiciously like a turkey, doesn’t it? Yes, it really gobbles up the years… : )

detail image from Moe Gizmo time traveler using turkey time machine to travel thru time, sees baby in cradle with yellow bird morphing into R.I.P. grave with dead flowers in pot and crow brooding on top of headstone

My machine is a affectionate parody of the time machine in the 1960 movie version
of H.G. Wells’ celebrated novel. Here we see Rod Taylor as George the Time Traveler contemplating the machine in his 1900s-era laboratory.

still from 1960 George Pal movie The Time Machine based on H.G. Wells' famous novel, scene star Rod Taylor as George the Time Traveler looking at the finished time machine in his laboratory

MGM art director Bill Ferrari designed the machine. It has a great Victorian look. I’ve always admired its elegance. The film’s a bit cheesy, but it won an Oscar for its inventive time-lapse photography, as seen in the clip below.

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Are you a time travel fan? Ever read Wells’ book or seen the movie?

Does time seem to pass more quickly when you’re eating a turkey sandwich??

Hope you’ll leave a comment.

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