The Flying Nun Does Top Gun!!

In this age of reboots and re-imaginings, do you know who most needs to come back to screen and comics?

Yup, The Flying Nun!

Some of you are no doubt shaking your head as if in a dream. Oh, youngsters, there really was a network television series called The Flying Nun. Set at a convent in Puerto Rico, it starred future two-time Oscar winner Sally Field as Sister Bertrille!! Who could, as the title implies, fly.

How? let Wikipedia tell us:

Sister Bertrille could be relied upon to solve any problem that came her way by her ability to catch a passing breeze and fly. This was generally attributed to her weighing under 90 pounds (41 kilograms), high winds at the Convent high on the ocean bluffs, and the large, heavily starched cornette that was the headpiece for her habit.

 Look, you may scoff, but this show lasted for 3 seasons on ABC. It had more episodes than Star Trek, for heaven's sake!!

And, as was the style in those days, it had it's own Dell comic book.

And to prove how worthy the franchise is of revival, check out this story!

The nuns take the orphans on a trip to tour a U.S. aircraft carrier!

But one of the orphans, Felipe, is a tad too curious!

All goes well enough, with no one aware of Felipe's presence...

Disaster strikes!

Oh, no!!

Fortunately, Sister Bertrille can save him!!

Yay!!

So, someone get to work on The Flying Nun Rebirth, will you?



From The Flying Nun #2 (1968)