Comic: Robert A. Heinlein in 'The Moon Is a Hot Babe'
An aeronautical engineer considers writing a novel about a new start on the moon.

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Heinlein was even better than Ayn Rand at visualizing and illustrating the alternative to most people’s conception of the relationship of government to society. The comic book history is an example of communicating in a way that reaches more different kinds of people. Thanks, Bagge! By the way, I don't recall that Virginia was promoted to Captain. Her bios usually say she was a Lieutenant Commander. Maybe she was promoted in the reserves?
IIRC, she did outrank him when they met.
Rand considered herself a “romantic”, which in her mind meant she was thinking of how life could be in a better world.
RAH on the other hand considered his work “speculative fiction”, meaning that he would tinker with a few parts of society (practical rocketry or extreme lifespans in particular) and see where it would go and what it could mean. Number of the Beast makes is clear that this is not a best case world when Lazarus realizes what the Burroughs space-time twister could mean (interuniversal wars) and says that he would trash the whole thing if it would help, but that the genie was already out of the bottle so the best thing to do was “sweep it up and sell it as fertilizer” .
Excellent work by Peter Bagge! I'll have to celebrate with a Tom Lehrer song on Yewchoob: "So long Mom, I'm off to drop The Bomb, so don't wait up for meee..."
Grumbles from the Grave is a good read, if you're a Heinlein addict. It provides some insight into what he was doing, what he was up against, what he was thinking, and gives some peeks into the Heinlein's personal lives.
I see from the first few panels with Ginnie that "Papa" Heinlein loved to live the life he grokked about in his books! 🙂
Heinlein's essay ad "Who Are The Heirs of Patrick Henry" is both timely for his time and timely for ours as Putin threatens nuclear war over his supposedly God-granted Donbass. Really gets the courage juices flowing!
The Editor Robert LeFevre in the comic was such a pussy Pacifist, he would even apologize to his own kidnappers for breaking their ropes and bonds! Fuck that shit! If somebody uses their property to violate the rights of others, they forfeit their property rights! And kidnappers should be glad to come out of the predicament with their lives!
Nice set-up he and Ginnie had with the bomb shelter...though why the bunk beds? For the kids? Guests like Hugh Farnham and Family? 😉
All in all, a great comic strip as always from Peter Bagge! Will he be making a compilation of his work with Reason?
The Heinleins and the visiting Daddy Farnham and his daughter (in law?) would have likely preferred to have just one big mat on the floor.
Virginia Heinlein was described as a flaming redhead.
Yup, that was pretty much my thought when I looked at the toon. But I can’t seem to find any color pics of her from her younger days when I look online.
If you look at the cover art on To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Maureen Johnson (based on Ginnie Heinlein) is a REDhead, not the deep gold color often called “red” of the toon.
Now Reason is pushing space colonization.
It's never going to work. We have to learn to live on this planet.
"Those Wright brothers need to stick to bicycles, that thing will never work" - some forgotten guy on December 16, 1903.