I was going through some old cartoons, looking for work to include in an upcoming show of my work, when I ran across this one from 2006. I thought at the time that exploding underwear was both a funny line and bizarre enough that it was unlikely ever to be a real threat. In a world as crazy as ours, that’s the kind of  assumption a satirist should never make. Last week, sure enough, Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab, a Nigerian with al Qaeda links, tried to bring down a plane with explosives hidden in his underwear. Here’s the cartoon. Weird.

Topics: airline, bombing, security, terrorism