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Gas

A crew of Far Side characters construct two giant volumes titled The Complete Far Side.

by Gary Larson

Comic Strip
Comedy
Families
Definite Time Travel
English
“Gas” by Gary Larson, from The Far Side, 6 August 1983.

Two dinosaurs, a scientist, and a time machine comprise the groundwork for the first ever of Larson’s timeless time travel gags.

—Michael Main

Tags

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Time Periods
- Age of Reptiles (252 Ma to 66 Ma: Mesozoic/Triassic/Jurassic/Cretaceous)
Timeline Models
- Unexplained Timeline Model
Time Travel Methods
- Time Spheres, Eggs, et al.
Real-World Tags
- Dinosaurs
Groupings
- The Far Side

Variants

(2)

“Gas” by Gary Larson, from The Far Side, 6 August 1983.
in color.
“Gas” by Gary Larson, in The Complete Far Side, vol. 1, by Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003), p. 319.

Indexer Notes

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Image—Larson has requested that fans not reproduced his work online, and we are fans! So instead, we’ve accompanied our listings by a reduced resolution scan of Jerry Tiritilli’s illustration from The Complete Far Side, vol. 1, p. xxi.