Before Jack Kirby created Kamandi, the King made an installment for the first issue of Harvey Comics' genre-bending Alarming Tales. The Last Enemy has a 20th Century scientist creating a time machine, and fast forwards to the non-existent town of Montford, CT in 2514, He discovers that the entire world has been inherited by anthropomorphic animals after humans fought themselves to extinction. The scientist gets captured by rodent soldiers that want him to build them a-bombs to take out the warring armies of dogs and cats. He is rescued by the dog army who also have part-time bears working with them, and the canine corps convince him to give them the tech specs for a nuke instead. The scientist reasons that the dogs are better at organizing other species together, leaving with the lame joke that the world is better off "going to the dogs than the rats" as he heads back to his own doomed timeline. How a time traveler who has already gone forward centuries to witness that humanity's future is already screwed because they split the atom, and then decides that one species is better off with atomic power over the other based on their slightly superior managing skills is probably one of the whitest things a time tripper could possibly do.
Before Jack Kirby created Kamandi, the King made an installment for the first issue of Harvey Comics' genre-bending Alarming Tales. The Last Enemy has a 20th Century scientist creating a time machine, and fast forwards to the non-existent town of Montford, CT in 2514, He discovers that the entire world has been inherited by anthropomorphic animals after humans fought themselves to extinction. The scientist gets captured by rodent soldiers that want him to build them a-bombs to take out the warring armies of dogs and cats. He is rescued by the dog army who also have part-time bears working with them, and the canine corps convince him to give them the tech specs for a nuke instead. The scientist reasons that the dogs are better at organizing other species together, leaving with the lame joke that the world is better off "going to the dogs than the rats" as he heads back to his own doomed timeline. How a time traveler who has already gone forward centuries to witness that humanity's future is already screwed because they split the atom, and then decides that one species is better off with atomic power over the other based on their slightly superior managing skills is probably one of the whitest things a time tripper could possibly do.
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