Egmont takes off

Egmont le Manchot, the noted Belgian detective and penguin was not known for his waffles. He was a penguin who, once he had made up his mind, stuck with his decision no matter how stupid it was. It was for this reason that he was now strapped into a rocket ship that his brother-in-law had made entirely out of egg cartons.

He was not looking forward to his trip to the moon. He had too much work piling up on his desk. He imagined that when he returned he would be so far behind that he would never catch up. Oh well he thought, what can't be cured must be endured.

The explosive power of the rocket engines threw him back in his seat but unfortunately they did little more than that as the egg cartons almost immediately caught fire destroying the rocket's fuselage thereby ensuring that it did not possess the necessary integrity to pierce the Earth's atmosphere or, indeed, make it out of Egmont's brother-in-law's backyard.

The Belgian detective's badly singed tailfeathers and bruised coccyx kept him from his desk for three days.