How to Try Something New
Added 2024-05-20 07:00:05 +0000 UTCWhile the real Rick and I were discussing hats (he recently gave into his destiny as a jazz fan and bought a porkpie hat) it occurred to me that if Rocket Hat were a real comic book superhero, he would probably have had a precursor in the Golden Age of comics. “Propeller Hat.”
You think Rocket Hat brutalizes the Emperor of the Moon, you should see what Propeller Hat used to do to him! There aren’t enough Band-Aids on the moon to deal with that!
I mentioned this to Rick, and he came up with the idea of Zeppelin Hat. I have embellished the idea and used it here, but credit where it’s due, he was the first one to suggest an 800 cubic meter, cigar-shaped gasbag full of hydrogen with two diesel engines and a chin-strap.
