The characters in this comic are two young scientists who travel back in time for what are, at first, professional purposes but which soon turn out to be pure amusement. Of course, this could only have dire consequences for them. In one of these space-time trips, Corbin and Danny visit Ancient Egypt in their vintage car, which they acquired in one of their previous trips to the United States in the 1920s. This is how they arrived to the Egypt of 3000 BC, which the authors of the comic recreate in a single image, featuring pyramids, palm trees, and camels, as well as numerous native workers who greet the passage of the two travellers from the future. Corbin turns to Danny and tells him that he is a pharaoh to the Egyptian population. The connotations of domination are evident in this image, in which the white individual, as a paradigm of Western civilisation, manifests his dominance over the East. In its exoticism and sensuality this orientalism is also evident in the second of the comic’s references to ancient Egypt. For instance, in his mansion in 1920s New York, Corbin boasts of his amorous prowess with different women from different eras. In the case of ancient Egypt, of course, Cleopatra is the character who appears linked to sex.

Autor: Abraham I. Fernández Pichel