Lots of people got Cap’n Eddie’s shocked look when they first heard of the balloons. Then there was a sort of who’d a thunk it moment. But considering modern technology, I prefer balloons to more destructive possibilities.
The way I see it, we did a good thing for China by shooting down the balloons and recovering them. According to the Chinese, these were weather balloons sent up by a private company and they experienced “navigational issues.”
So by recovering the balloons and analyzing them, we can help this private Chinese company fix their “navigational issues.”
Since that incident, there have been no reports of guys strapping balloons to their lounge chairs and drifting up into the air, but things might change during the summer
Bilan 6 months ago
Fortunately, the pilot saw him and said That’s just Cap’n Eddie. No need to waste a missile.
YourFriendlyNeighborhoodAmoeba 6 months ago
… straight-wing interceptors? The F-89 was retired in 1969. Even for balloon hunting.
sirbadger 6 months ago
If the Titanic had a balloon like that, it could have gone over the iceberg.
Radish the wordsmith Premium Member 6 months ago
Did they use a 3 million dollar missile to drop his $30,000 boat?
oldpine52 6 months ago
Funny, Cap’n Eddie doesn’t look Chinese.
Kveldulf 6 months ago
It’s nice to know our good captain stays abreast of the news.
dadoctah 6 months ago
Good thing this strip is set in New England and not Florida, where they don’t observe Sanity Savin’ Time.
Not that there’d be any point to it, since they have little or none to save.
SHIVA 6 months ago
Strange, all of a sudden, the incursion of those balloons have suddenly stopped!!!
jvo 6 months ago
I just like the number of balloon missions they have flown.
sandpiper 6 months ago
Lots of people got Cap’n Eddie’s shocked look when they first heard of the balloons. Then there was a sort of who’d a thunk it moment. But considering modern technology, I prefer balloons to more destructive possibilities.
PraiseofFolly 6 months ago
Is it smoke or soap bubbles coming out of that pipe?
Say What? 6 months ago
I hope Eddie said hello to Pierre before all this happened.
Isenthor1978 6 months ago
One of those jets is sporting 3 balloons under his cockpit canopy. Did Cap’n Eddie get shot down 3 times already?
Chris Littler 6 months ago
Is this the first time that Wiley Bears and Captain Eddie have appeared together?
boydjb47 6 months ago
All he had to do was wait for the ice to melt.
Out of the Past 6 months ago
The drawing of the plane made me think of Donald Duck and Santa Claus, 1952, Little Golden Book.
Masterskrain Premium Member 6 months ago
YAY!!! WILEY BEARS!!! YAY!!!
Can't Sleep 6 months ago
It’s a good thing Eddie’s never been on TV – the GOP would have a new frontrunner for the nomination!
dflak 6 months ago
The way I see it, we did a good thing for China by shooting down the balloons and recovering them. According to the Chinese, these were weather balloons sent up by a private company and they experienced “navigational issues.”
So by recovering the balloons and analyzing them, we can help this private Chinese company fix their “navigational issues.”
Mountaingreenery 6 months ago
kathlgoldman88 Premium Member 6 months ago
Those are the happiest polar bears I’ve ever seen.
Durak Premium Member 6 months ago
Of the rash of Chinese balloon cartoons we’ve suffered through the past month or so this one is the best.
mindjob 6 months ago
Since that incident, there have been no reports of guys strapping balloons to their lounge chairs and drifting up into the air, but things might change during the summer
Jim706 6 months ago
Probably easier to draw…
KEA 6 months ago
I start to get a headache any time NS starts with “Theah we wah…”
willie_mctell 6 months ago
The cat is very good at sitting where it wants to.
don.chambers 6 months ago
Very few would notice that. Good catch
mistercatworks 6 months ago
F-33?
Fuzzy Kombu 6 months ago
Don’t worry, folks — it’s not the Air Force. It’s just the YABSC (Ypsilanti Amateur Balloon Spotters Club).
oish 6 months ago
So Capt. Eddie is Peter Potamus the Hurricane Hippo?
EXCALABUR 6 months ago
They are all we have left. Biden gave or sold everything else to Ukraine.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] 6 months ago
The official designation is now UAP for Unidentified Ariel Phenomena since there is more up there than just objects.
keenanthelibrarian 6 months ago
Oh, so THAT’S how it happened .. often wondered. Well, now we know. Wiley done it!!
phoenixnyc 6 months ago
C’mon, Flo….you know you’d miss Eddie’s stories!