Comments on: Mars attacks part ∞

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:04:14 +0000

“And won’t you aaaalllll have a great big belly laugh on the day when Mars really DOES pay us a visit and chomps down on Earth like a cosmic Pac-Man. By the way, yer “8″ must’ve fallen over.”
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Hmm. Ignorance is NOT bliss. Thanks for the great articles. When my email got gently pummelled by “fwd:CRAP” I included a link to your site with my reply. Even Snopes debunks it, but do people check that? And yep, I have to reply to these things, because I don’t want it on my conscience that I let a few friends and family members wallow in hogwash.

I wonder what Ray Bradbury thinks? Bet he’s getting a good chuckle too.

It’s great to see this issue addressed in the comics, where thinkers and non-thinkers alike congregate. If this is the ONLY WAY to get through to these folk…

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:53:43 +0000

It is in fact a “Close To Home” cartoon…

By: Jack Hagerty

Jack Hagerty — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:27:09 +0000

Triangleman Says: “I remember seeing that cartoon before in 2003 when the press were hyping the â€œMars is going to be at its closest point to Earth than in the last upteen-bazillion-zillion yearsâ€ stories. Wish I could remember the name of the strip.”

It looks like “Close to Home”, a strip that is really funny, but I don’t especially care for because the art is so ugly.

- Jack

By: Wayne Reed

Wayne Reed — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:17:03 +0000

I’ll second the thanks for the Onion article! That was excellent. It is even more appropriate today than when it was published.

Wayne

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:09:07 +0000

Thanks for the link to the Onion article, Supernova. I hadn’t read that one before, it really cracked me up!

By: Supernova

Supernova — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:52:58 +0000

Cute. It reminds me of this classic Onion article: New Solar System Discovered Four Feet from Earth

By: Triangleman

Triangleman — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:41:16 +0000

I remember seeing that cartoon before in 2003 when the press were hyping the “Mars is going to be at its closest point to Earth than in the last upteen-bazillion-zillion years” stories. Wish I could remember the name of the strip.

By: ABR

ABR — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:44:11 +0000

Perhaps the cartoon suggests that the astrologers got it right for once…Mars IS in the seventh house. (Yeah, I know — the song says the Moon is supposed to be in that particular house.)

By: moonflake

moonflake — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:37:34 +0000

back in ’03 at the time of the actual closest approach there was a great cartoon with a telescope perched on top of earth and mars looming close, looking like a red Death Star. From the telescope came the caption ‘That’s no planet!’

I wish i could find that cartoon again…

By: Elwood Herring

Elwood Herring — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:00:41 +0000

Anyone got any Mars repellent?

By: Rob Harbison

Rob Harbison — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:11:20 +0000

That was cute. Was it from one of the … for Dummies books? It looks a bit like that style.

By: Merovingian

Merovingian — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:08:10 +0000

Hahaha!

The art style on that one reminds me of the The Far Side.

By: Navneeth

Navneeth — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:19:24 +0000

That’s a good one! May be us non-spammers should start sending this around every August!