Discover more from Push Button Heads: a Comic by Everett Wilson

My nerdy “Push Button Head” characters live in a near-futuristic society that may or may not be on your planet (you decide!). You'll catch them talking or acting at cross-purposes, and being too curious for their own good. I post a new comic each weekend.

Smoke Avoidance

A weekly comic featuring the whimsical and far-too-innocent Push Button Heads characters, written and illustrated by Everett Wilson. Enjoy!

Everett Wilson

Aug 19, 2023

A comic about a couple arguing in a futuristic house in the sky that can levitate above the clouds on command.

This week’s cartoon is loosely inspired by the audacious solution to smoke and smog portrayed in the opening of the Jetsons: The Movie (c. 1990), which for whatever reason became an indelible childhood memory.

I was probably too young to tell what part of the joke, if there was one, contained the punchline. But I’m still not clear about it now. Was it supposed to be a comment on our misguided hubris as a species? Or was the scene trying to comfort us?

Was it trying to reassure us that by the time we do scorch the planet (and we have!), surely by then we will have built enough sky palaces to take us further and further away from reality.

All I remember thinking at the time was “these things can’t keep going up indefinitely!”