For all his effort and dedication to the cause, well, he’s still the same guy inside. In a future where people are more relaxed in areas not related to our ability to perform work (I’d like to see us younger people eventually reach a critical mass of power and influence), he still chooses to wear something “futuristic” when he comes back in time for effect.
I was going to have the twenty years away comment in the first panel be a punchline all its own, but since I’m doing two strips a week I need to keep the pacing brisk. I felt bad about throwing that away, though, because I liked it. That’s why I wrote it in to the first panel. It seems the future is always twenty years away: Fusion because it’s not as easy in practice as people want to believe, and flying cars because…well, lots of reasons, but would you want today’s drivers behind FLYING VEHICLES? Better start building your bomb shelter/house now.