Unlike the other two epics, this one was drawn left-to-right, but, like the others, it can be laid end-to-end. The main concept was of an expressway leading to an airport, but exclusively for airport traffic, so it had no exits in the direction of the airport, and no entrances in the opposite direction. Once the "Dumb Airport Expressway" passed through the airport and connected to the mirror "Exit Expressway" on the other side, a flaw in the concept became apparent: people could game the system by driving all the way through the airport and exit on the opposite expressway past the airport!
The flaw was corrected in one direction by closing the expressway inside the airport with a concrete barrier and construction barrels; why it was not corrected in the opposite direction is a mystery. Even then, one could exit the expressway just inside the airport and find a way back onto the mirror expressway. Sketch number 30, at the airport border on the Exit Expressway side, originally showed a forced turnaround for all traffic back into the airport but was heavily edited to eliminate that for, again, unclear reasons. The entire idea might have worked better if both expressways ended at the terminal in such a way that the terminal stood between the two expressways and no connection existed between them.
This series includes several sketches marked "Void." The word does not appear to be in my handwriting, which leads me to wonder what higher authority had the power to void a sketch. We've included the voided sketches here for historical completeness, but we disclaim any liability for any negative effects suffered by museum patrons in the course of viewing a voided sketch.
As always, forty-five years of storage in poorly-controlled environments has taken its toll on these masterpieces, and they have become yellowed; only obvious stains have been retouched. In cases in which the sketches were redrawn, we provide a link to the original, but we'll present these as a group without individual comment.
