Shortly after he completed his masterwork, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, Joseph Mallord William Turner took to time-travelling for the sake of making vanity portraits of individuals in the future. The money was good, the liquor was cheap and the women were easily impressed, but the pressure and paradox soon overwhelmed him. This temporal exhaustion forced Turner to give up his rollicking life of zipping from date-to-date and to return to his workaday life of landscape after landscape after landscape. Luckilly, one of the few pieces to survive — from what historians now call his “Timelord Period” — is the lovely work you see directly above: The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, Part II: The Revenge, starring Zip Rampy and his trusty sidekick, Demon Face.
(Now … go say “Happy 29th Birthday!” to the Almighty Zip.)
