On today's Alley Oop - 12 September 2020

In today's zany episode (https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/09/12), Phil cuts to the chase and asks Doc to go back in time and change history. Nevermind that Hamlin long ago established that Oop and friends could not change historical events. Otherwise, why wouldn't our heroes try to stop the first slave ship from reaching American shores or kill Hitler to save millions of lives? But Joey has remade the strip and tossed aside the underpinnings of this once great strip. The most important man, who dresses like a janitor, in the world has been waiting for some random, time-travellers to show up at this particular amusement park and seek out this specific fortune teller in order to end this calamity. And, wonder of wonders, after twelve hundred years, the long-awaited time-travellers happen to be our favorite caveman with his two henchmen. But one wonders why Phil doesn't have his own time-machine to take a blast to the past? I mean, in the 21st century, everybody and his brother has a time-machine from little kids to sentient raccoons. Or are we to believe that time-machines no longer exist in the future? No matter what the answer is, nothing in this story makes any kind of sense. And, for the record, what does being in VR have with Doc sprouting a tail? Absolutely nothing, of course. But it is just one more incongruous event in a never-ending string of incongruous events. Zany my arse.