The grand finale of my mini-series about Kent Hovind’s theme park. Four pages of inking, around 60 hours of work, and the central idea about the origin of flight is something that I’ve been saving for the right place since summer of 2001. It felt kind of weird to be finally drawing things that have been in my head for more than five years.

A couple of notes about the more obscure jokes here:

1: Although most paleontologists think that birds’ ability to fly evolved through an intermediate gliding stage in tree-dwelling dinosaurs, the main competitor to this hypothesis has traditionally been that it evolved in insect-eating dinosaurs as a way to help them capture flying prey.

2: The term “drive-by creationist” refers to a creationist who starts a new thread at a debate forum consisting of one or more anti-evolution PRATTs, and then ignores all the subsequent refutations to his or her post. For example: [link]

3: “Evolution is a big mafia in worldwide” is the most famous PRATT ever posted at CF. The full text of it is as follows:

Evolution is a big mafia in worldwide. Am I right??
It is not a science, but mafia, ruling by Devil.
I think that there is big mafia in the world which protects
evolution. Dont you see this??

I may take a break from these comics for a few months after this one. This episode of my comic is the only art I’ve been working on since November, and now I’d like to be able to spend some time with other topics.